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Lenses to Observe Dark Energy

Roughly 4% of the universe is ordinary matter, 22% from dark matter; this leaves 74% unaccounted for. Dark Energy.

Super-Earths Discovered

A group of astronomers have now discovered a system of three super-Earths around a rather normal star.

Plans to Visit the Sun

NASA 'We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time'

Time before Big Bang

scientists from Caltech, study hints at something pre-existing our universe

The Moon Once We Get There?

The Moon has become the next frontier. US committed to returning.

Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged

Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered extensive damage during the shuttle Discovery's blastoff.

Giant Ring Encircling Exotic Dead Star

Magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion

Hubble Finds Missing Matter

Astronomers say they have definitively found about half of the missing normal matter, called baryons, in the spaces between the galaxies.

Ion engine enters space race

The engine will be used in an ESA spacecraft tasked with mapping the Earth's gravitational field from orbit.

Solar System's 'look-alike' found

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own.

Astronomers see 'youngest planet'

An embryonic planet detected outside our Solar System could be less than 2,000 years old.

Space Tourism Industry Gains New Competitor

There's a new entry in the race for the first space tourism jet: XCOR Aerospace, a California-based rocket builder. The company says its clean-burning, two-seat Lynx spacecraft will lift off by 2010.

Space Tourism is getting Closer to Reality

Aerospace giant EADS says it will need a production line of rocket planes to satisfy the space tourism market.

NASA Running Out of Plutonium

The U.S. hasn't produced plutonium since 1988, instead preferring to purchase it from Russia.

Will Mars be a One-way Trip?

The obstacles of going to Mars are daunting. Not only are there numerous, difficult, technical issues to overcome, but the political will and perseverance of any one nation to undertake such an arduous task is huge.

DeathStar Aimed at Earth

A spectacular, rotating binary star system is a ticking time bomb, ready to throw out a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays.

NASA to Smash Spacecraft into Moon

NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into the Moon in order to look for hydrogen deposits in the poles.

Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected

The largest structures in the universe have been, if not directly found, then at least detected and pounced upon by scientists. read more

Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth

A minor academic debate among astronomers is the final fate of the earth. As the sun ages and enters the red giant stage of its life, it will heat up, making the earth inhospitable.

X Prize, Google set on 10 teams

The X Prize Foundation and Google announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X Prize, the groups’ robot race to the moon worth $30 million in prizes.

Synchrotron. A Black Hole Factory?

The Large Hadronic Collider (LHC), which is to be the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, is currently being constructed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

Milky Way is much bigger than we thought

By doing simple calculations on data freely available online, Australian astrophysicists have discovered that our Milky Way galaxy may be twice as thick as previously estimated.

Mobiles on the moon. Nasa prepares trial

After conquering the farthest corners of the globe, mobile phones are now destined for the final frontier - space.

Possibility of Life On Mars Looking More Remote

The never-say-die robotic geologist Opportunity continues its extended explorations in Victoria Crater on Mars. The latest findings from the mission suggest that while plenty of water did exist in this location, it was so salty that life would have a very hard time gaining a foothold.