Netscape Navigator Version 8 has been released.
The 8.0 Beta debuted back in March, with the final version being based on Firefox 1.03, and includes Trust Rating, a feature which identifies sites as safe or unsafe.
Netscape 8.0 includes a toggle which allows switching between Mozilla and Micr...
BareBones DIY EZTower-Z4 kits for the A1200 available for free!
"We're moving premises this summer and still have around 100 brand new EZTower-Z4 kits to dispose of before then - they just have to go! These are units for self conversion complete with the custom back and side panels necessary for...
New Scientist has launched a new website focused solely on space and astronomy to capitalise on its growing online audience.
The international weekly science magazine has had a dedicated website, NewScientist.com, for 10 years. The parent site has about 8 million page impressions and 1.8 mill...
The Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft recently photographed two other spacecraft, Mars Odyssey and Mars Express, orbiting Mars.
These are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet.
Mars Express was pas...
Following 60 days of 'bed rest' simulating the effects of weightlessness on the body, the first volunteers in the WISE (Women International Space Simulation for Exploration) study have been getting back on their feet.
They all speak of having had a wonderfully enriching experi...
An exceptionally bright "fireball" was spotted late on Tuesday slicing through the sky over Finland before exploding over the country's border with Russia, the Finnish Astronomical Association (URSA) said on Wednesday.
The phenomenon was witnessed by dozens of people in the eastern...
The U.S. Air Force says that it must secure space to protect the nation from attack, and is seeking President Bush's approval of a national-security directive that could move the United States closer to deploying offensive and defensive space weapons.
The proposed change would be a substantial...
The world's oldest volcano observatory has added satellites to its repertoire of instruments to monitor volcanic features flanking Naples. The result has been the most detailed view ever of ground motion in this vicinity.
When it was founded back in 1841, the Vesuvius Observatory of Italy's Na...
European aerospace giant EADS has shelved plans for a new bigger 12-tonne version of its Ariane rocket owing to lack of demand.
"We don't need a 12-tonne version. There's no market for it. We should put the project on ice " - Josef Kind head of EADS Space Transportation.
Th...
The first person on Mars might be a grandmother. That's one unexpected possibility discovered by an all-female, six-member international crew that has just returned from Mars, or a reasonable facsimile of it, in the desert of southern Utah.
The all-female Mona Lisa Project is the secon...
Build your own small-scale, high-altitude balloon out of styrofoam, masking tape, electrical kit and a 'consumer-grade' weather balloon. Two guys have reached an estimated 52000 feet using one they had built earlier. The UX-1 Balloon was launch on Saturday May 14, 2005, 10a...
A 15-thousand pound mystery rock was found in a Cedar Rapids farm field, Iowa, US.
Bob Taylor works for Bladerston Farms of Central City and says he found the rock this spring while doing field work.
Taylor says it may be a meteorite. But the rock is clean, not burned and is sitting on the field, not i...
A solar sail that scientists believe could power missions into deep space has passed its first major test.
A 20-metre square sail was deployed and its orientation controlled in a vacuum chamber designed to mimic space at NASA's Glenn Research Centre in Ohio, by developers ATK Space Systems who ar...
Researchers have made a photometric study of the optical counterpart of the long-duration Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) 030725, which was observed by the HETE FREGATE and WXM instruments on July 25th, 2003, and lasted more than 160s.
An optical counterpart was identified at the Bronberg Observatory in...
A nearly perfect Einstein Ring (gravitational lensing by a nearby galaxy acting as a natural telescope to focus the light from a more distant galaxy )has been found.
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