A recent grant from NASA will enable the Arkansas Centre for Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Arkansas to continue its work creating missions to asteroids and exploring the possibilities and chemistry of water on Mars as part of the nation's space effort.
The centre received a...
THE rest of the world hums with word of the rise of China and its increasing military might. China, however, is clearly concerned about its defences.
In the modern metropolis of Shanghai, construction has been completed on an underground bunker that can accommodate up to 200,000 people.
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Three shipwrecks including one resembling a Portuguese warship have been discovered in the Straits of Malacca.
Well-known Australian maritime archaeologist Dr Michael Flecker, who has carried out more than 100 explorations in numerous countries around the region, made the latest discov...
The tourist industry in Kerala, India, had been waiting for a long gap for the blooming of Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes Kunthiana). It is reported that the flower exhibits the beauty of the divine.
Neelakurinji is a shrub that used to grow abundantly in the shola grasslands of Western G...
A north Korean Taepodong-2 missile was test fired on July 4, 2006. According to preliminary reports, though, the missile failed in mid-flight soon after launch.
Between the villages of Orton and Raisebeck in Cumbria (England) lies Gamelands stone circle. Classified as an embanked stone circle, it is oval shaped (44.5 x 37.5 metres) and consists of 33 stones, now tumbled.
This stone circ...
Geophysicists in the US have found that the "aftershocks" produced by earthquakes are triggered by "dynamic" seismic waves from the main shock rather than changes in stress in nearby faults brought about by the rearrangement of the Earth's crust, as previously believed.
Karen Felzer of the US G...
Prehistoric drawings found at Dunbar Cave.
People will get the first glimpse of a "great treasure of North America" beginning today.
A ceremony today at Dunbar Cave will mark the announcement and public display of more than 30 prehistoric cave drawings and etchings inside Dunbar Ca...
This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the regions of Granicus Valles and Tinjar Valles, which may have been formed partly through the action of subsurface water, due to a process known as sapping.
Credits: ESA/DLR/FU...
The JCSAT-10 satellite has completed its fuelling process, marking another step in the spacecraft's pre-launch checkout for its upcoming Ariane 5 dual payload heavy-lift mission.
JSAT-10's fuelling occurred in the S5A hall of the Spaceport's large S5 payload preparation facility, which is...
Close encounters of the Broxbourne kind
Was it a bird, was it a plane, a shooting star or a real life UFO? Mercury readers have flooded our newsdesk with calls to tell how they spied a mysterious object in the skies over the borough.
After we told how a 29-year-old Hoddesdon man spotted an Unident...
A Boeing Delta 4 Medium+ rocket will launch NRO L-22, a classified spy satellite cargo for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, from SLC-6, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, US, at the start of a two hour launch window, at 02:00 GMT, on the 28th June.
The rocket will fly in a configuration...
AllPeers Beta is now getting ready to start the first phase of the AllPeers Beta Test Program. This phase is invitation only and uses a version of the software that requires the use of a special activation key.
The new P2P program for file sharing is being released, (yet to launch publicly), as an e...
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