Washington, July 4 : Scientists have performed numerical calculations that show how convective mixing flows in the Earth's liquid outer core can cause the geomagnetic dipole to...

London, July 4 : The NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin has said that humans should create a settlement on Mars to provide much-needed objectives to the younger...

Washington, July 4 : A team of scientists has for the first time observed energetic neutral atoms scattered off the Moon from the incoming solar wind ion...

Forty years ago Buzz Aldrin became the second man to walk on the moon. He was there for two and a half hours, but the breakdown which followed lasted a decade. He tells Stephen Moss how he has...

Mars rover project manager John Callas shows the sandbox and “Earth Rover” that engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., will use to try out...

Serena, left and Venus, right Williams return speak while playing Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the U.S. during their doubles match at Wimbledon, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Anja...

Landon Donovan, pictured in June 2009, has issued the Los Angeles Galaxy an ultimatum - have English superstar David Beckham clean up his act or risk the departure of Donovan, the club´s all-time...

— On July 2 the detectors of Planck's High Frequency Instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273°C, making them the coldest known objects in space. The spacecraft...

Alistair Darling has warned bankers they will be "brought back to Earth" if they engage in excessively risky trading. Speaking before unveiling next week's banking reform White Paper, the...

As the most dominant women players of the last decade sat side by side yesterday afternoon, smiling in the wake of their semi-final victory in the doubles, it was hard to picture them today putting...

On the face of it, another grim week for Gordon Brown. A U-turn on the part-privatisation of Royal Mail and a messy Commons defeat on his bill to "clean up" politics followed his climbdown on the...

ll-action, all-week on BBC1 after the watershed Torchwood would seem to be continuing its parent show Doctor Who's mission of providing spooky scenarios that can be easily imitated in play – like...

Navy Lt. Commander Gregory Reid Wiseman was selected from among 3,500 applicants for the 2009 astronaut class. Wiseman is a test pilot serving aboard...

Save the Chimps sanctuary in Fort Pierce, Florida. One of dozens of infant chimpanzees seized in Africa for the US Air Force in the 1950s, he was recruited into the military’s air and...

The new near-infrared image of the Helix Nebula, showing comet-shaped knots within, was released July 2, 2009. Scientists noted that these features look like a fireworks display in space. Credit:...

wrote about scientists who were unhappy that a purported clamp down was afoot on their use of data snagged by U.S. military spacecraft – hush hush satellites that from time to time catch...

Film Review: Moon (3.5 stars)There exist on this planet two distinct sub-species of filmgoer. One thinks Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was perhaps the greatest science-fiction film ever...

The five UK-born individuals who have flown in space are being honoured with a commemorative pin.The British Interplanetary Society is making the award to recognise the astronauts' achievements but...

July 3, 2009 · Scientists say X-ray data collected by the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton spacecraft show evidence of a new type of black hole in a galaxy about 290 million light years from...

Serena and Venus Williams will meet in the Wimbledon final for the fourth time after a rollercoaster Thursday which witnessed epic drama as well as a farcical no-contest.Serena reached her fifth...

Tennis: Murray plots course to meet the greatest Venus and Serena Williams won in contrasting fashion yesterday to set up their fourth all-sister Wimbledon final and eighth meeting in a Grand Slam...

LONDON (Reuters) - A display of raw desire over a decade ago from sister Serena inspired Venus Williams to ascend the summit of the women's game but there will be no room for sentiment when the...

Since the crew of Apollo 17 returned from the moon in December 1972, no human has left low-Earth orbit. Five space shuttles, scores of Russian Soyuz capsules, the International Space Station, and...

Pastel colors swirl across Mars, revealing differences in the composition and nature of the surface in this false-color infrared image taken on May 22, 2009,by the Thermal Emission Imaging System...

The International Space Station's Expedition 20 crew, the first-ever full six person team, share a meal in the Unity node of the International Space Station in May 2009. American astronaut Michael...

A pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. Most of the 1,800 cataloged pulsars were found through their periodic radio emissions....

Washington, July 3: A new image, taken with an infrared camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, has revealed a cosmic fireworks display, in the form of tens of thousands of previously unseen...

WASHINGTON: NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He will tweet from space in Spanish and English. Astronaut Jose Hernandez grew up...

July 2, 2009 · Many Saturn dealers and customers were relieved after hearing that Roger Penske would buy the company from General Motors. Penske has a reputation as a dynamo in his many...

Washington, July 3 : Parts of Mars resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a...

Washington, July 3 : NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has transmitted its first images from the Moon, since reaching lunar orbit on June...

The surprise was that Serena Williams was one point away from losing it to Elena Dementieva. Williams, hardly for the first time here or elsewhere, found a way to snarl and swing her way through...

LONDON - Venus and Serena Williams clash in a fourth all-sister Wimbledon final on Saturday determined to prove that their domination of the event is not a backward step for the sport's future...

Venus Williams has angrily hit back at suggestions that her 6-1, 6-0 Wimbledon semi-final demolition of world number one Dinara Safina was an embarrassment to women's tennis. Venus, the five-time...

The Fast Access Spacecraft Testbed program is an effort to develop a new ultra-lightweight High Power Generation System that, when combined with electric propulsion, will form the basis for future...

Indonesia successfully launched a home-grown rocket into space on Thursday as part of plans to send a satellite into orbit by 2014, officials said. The RX-420 rocket took off from a launch pad in...

NASA's Terrier-Orion rocket lifts off, carrying experiments from faculty and students around the country. MSU instructors were among those who developed experiments for the June 26 launch. (Photo...

Microsat Systems Canada is delighted to announce the sixth birthday of the MOST Microsatellite - Canada's First Space Telescope. The MOST (Microvariability and Oscillations of Stars) microsatellite...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that the satellite it built for TerreStar Networks is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers. The world's largest commercial satellite deployed its...

Berlin, July 2 : The International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009) has achieved a milestone of sorts, in the sense that over a million people have already looked at the sky through a telescope for...

A leader in S-Band radar development and production, with more than 100 operational systems deployed worldwide, Lockheed Martin supports a range of critical space command and control programs and...

The first International Space University (ISU) Opening Ceremony held at a NASA center drew more than 500 guests for a multimedia celebration of exploration at the Mountain View Center for the...

An international team of researchers led by a UC Riverside astronomer has completed the largest ever survey designed to find very distant clusters of galaxies. Named the Spitzer Adaptation of the...

As America celebrates its 233rd birthday this holiday weekend, there will be an extra light in the sky along with the fireworks. Across the country, Americans will be treated to spectacular views of...

Fourth of July weekend marks the middle of the year. I hope you are having a really good one. With parades, picnics, barbecues and fireworks to top it off, this is a great time of year. I think we...

On one side the power and the glory. On the other utter humiliation.Rarely can a Wimbledon semi-final have illustrated those two contrasting emotions so starkly as Venus Williams' 6-1 6-0 demolition...

station's six-man crew , but is part of a carefully orchestrated series of arrivals and departures at the outpost this month. "It's just a set up for the traffic patterns in...

By the time you read this, if the forecasters are correct, the heat will have broken and we'll be back to normal, middling-warm July days. It'll be a shame, in some ways: the soaring temperatures...

Footage shot just weeks before the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing shows astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin training in their cumbersome spacesuits. Apollo...

"Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says." ) The leading theory has been a mid-air explosion of either a rocky meteor or an...