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Proton rocket suffers launch failure 16 Mar 2008 | 02:25 am
For the second time in six months, a commercial launch of the Russian Proton rocket ended in failure early Saturday after an undetermined problem struck the booster's upper stage, leaving the mission'...
Life-building ingredients found around infant stars and in meteorites 15 Mar 2008 | 04:13 am
In two separate reports released this week, scientists have unveiled new discoveries of water vapour and organic gases in the proto-planetary discs of young stars, and unprecedented levels of amino ac...
Cassini fly-by success 15 Mar 2008 | 01:34 am
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft performed a daring flyby of Saturn’s moon Enceladus on Wednesday, speeding at 15 kilometres per second through icy Old-Faithful-like geysers erupting from giant fractures in ...
Rhea's dusty halo 15 Mar 2008 | 01:28 am
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found evidence of a “dusty-halo” orbiting Rhea, Saturn's second largest satellite, the first time rings may have been found around a moon.
Earth-like planets around Alpha Centauri? 13 Mar 2008 | 01:08 am
Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our Solar System, should harbour detectable Earth-like planets, according to a new study by a team of astronomers at the University of Santa Cruz.
Cassini to dive into water plume of Saturn moon 12 Mar 2008 | 01:09 am
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make an unprecedented "in your face" flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, skirting along the edges of huge Old-Faithful-like geysers erupting from giant fractu...
More gloom for UK astronomy 11 Mar 2008 | 01:07 am
Just weeks after the UK's involvement in the Gemini telescopes was reinstated, and UK astronomy suffers another blow at the hands of STFC in the latest announcement that the e-MERLIN project, an array...
Looking down the barrel of a gamma-ray burst 11 Mar 2008 | 01:05 am
A team of astronomers from the University of Sydney have been keeping an eye on a binary star system called Wolf-Rayet 104, which is considered by astronomers to be a highly unstable ticking bomb that...
Martian avalanches caught on film by orbiting probe 5 Mar 2008 | 04:04 am
Cameras orbiting Mars as part of NASA's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have captured four avalanches in action.
Sunspot marks the start of new solar cycle 5 Mar 2008 | 04:04 am
The new year welcomed the beginning of a new solar cycle, with the first sunspot of Cycle 24 observed on 4th January. Cycle 24 has been slow getting started compared to the average over the last few c...
