The Space Experiment Competition for UK schools which will see the winning team flying their entry on board a British-built satellite has been won by Shrewsbury School with their proposal for an ionospheric scintillation experiment called POISE. Shrewsbury School, in Shropshire, beat five oth...
The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion, which disappeared during World War II. Underwater video footage and pictures captured by an expedition hired by sons of the commanding officer, Lt. Cmdr. Mannert L. Abele, all...
Work on Bahrain's first planetarium has been stalled indefinitely, with officials still trying to get government permits. The BD78,000 dome-shaped project at The Indian School campus in Isa Town, will feature educational and entertainment shows displayed on its projection screen. The GDN rep...
A bright fireball was seen by several observers in Scotland at 20:31 UT, 22nd September, 2008. The orange-yellow meteor fell in a general northeast to southwest direction, breaking up over northern England
Scientists trying to discover the origins of life on Earth are sending a piece of Orkney stone into space. The rock will be strapped to a Russian rocket to see how it survives Earth's atmosphere after 12 days in orbit. Scheduled for launch on September 14 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, th...
The German Aerospace Center (aka DLR) Tuesday demonstrated the world's first hydrogen fuel cell only powered airplane, which took off, flew and then landed in Stuttgart, Germany. This was the first time such an aircraft was able to take off using the energy from fuel cells. [url=http://www.sciam...
This summer archaeologists discovered a well-preserved altar from a large sanctuary near the town of Opaka, northeastern Bulgaria. The altar is decorated with images of grapes and wine vessels, which, to experts, means that it belonged to a temple to Dionysus. [url=http://www.visitbulgaria....
In honour of the telescope's 400th anniversary, we here at Wired.com want to see your favourite telescope photo. Whether it's constellations, your telescope from home or a giant observatory you visited last summer, show us your best tribute to this epic invention. [url=http://www.wired.com/s...
The Design of Extremely Large Telescopes In the late 1970s, astronomers had a problem: the scale of their telescopes no longer matched the size of their ambitions. To see deeper and deeper into our universe's past, they needed a bigger telescope. To build a bigger telescope, they needed a larger mir...
The "birth rate" for stars is certainly not easy to determine. Distances in the universe are far too great for astronomers to be able to count all the newly formed celestial bodies with the aid of a telescope. So it is fortunate that the emerging stars give themselves away by a characterist...
Nasa has commissioned a British scientist to recreate the smell of being in outer space. Steve Pearce, from Omega Ingredients near Ipswich, is assembling chemicals that will make astronauts training on earth feel as though they are in outer space. [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technolog...
American billionaire Charles Simonyi, a computer software executive who paid more than $20 million to fly to the International Space Station aboard a Russian-built Soyuz capsule in spring 2007, will train for a second Soyuz trip to the space station in spring 2009. [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.c...
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