| L.A. Galaxy boss says won't rush Becks back into action L.A. Galaxy boss Bruce Arena has said that he has no plans to rush England football star David Beckham back into... | |
| Ancient bacteria could pave way for new and improved sunscreens Cyanobacteria - organisms that thrived on Earth before there was enough oxygen to block harmful ultraviolet light-could pave way for new and improved sunscreens, according to a new... |
| NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun's biggest mysteries NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever... |
| Chief rabbi slams Stephen Hawking for excluding God's role in universe creation The chief rabbi, Lord Sacks, has lashed out at Stephen Hawking after the astrophysicist claimed in his new book that God had no role to play in the creation of the... |
| 2001 Indian 'red rain' showered earth with 'alien life', claim theorists After nine years of research, panspermia theorists have said that the 'red' rains that occurred in India in July 2001 contained bugs that were unlike anything ever found on the Earth, suggesting that it may be an alien form of... |
| Astronomy workshop for UAE kids during Ramadan More than 6,000 children took part in a month-long workshop on astronomy that was organised in Abu Dhabi to encourage youngsters to learn... |
| Rare Earth Metals Options Strategic Claims in the Red Wine Complex Rare Earth Metals Inc. ("RA" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:RA) is pleased to announce that it has added to its land holdings in the Red Wine/Letitia Lake area of west central Labrador through the... |
| Labor Day Weekend for Astronauts: Space Toilet Cleaning and Exercise Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won't be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they'll get the U.S. holiday off — after they clean... |
| Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth This image captures galaxies that are relatively local alongside some that date back almost 10 billion years, soon after the Big Bang. The most distant galaxies stand out clearly in the infrared,... |
| Top 10 Summer Sky Objects to See Before Fall With the Summer Triangle passing away to the west, the planet Jupiter comes to dominate the autumn sky in September, adrift in a menagerie of constellations named after sea creatures. Credit: Starry... |
| Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found SOME 16 million years ago, north became south in a matter of years. Such fast flips are impossible, according to models of the Earth's core, but this is now the second time that evidence has been... |
| Hawking's God, Universe claim rejected London, England (CNN) -- Religious leaders in Britain on Friday hit back at claims by leading physicist Stephen Hawking that God had no role in the creation of the... |
| Apple's 27-in. iMac 'the center of my digital universe' Intel processors while retaining the line's already successful aluminum-and glass design. The new iMac comes in two versions: One features an LED-backlit 21.5-in. widescreen LCD with the Intel Core... |
| Latest NASA images: Earl and oil rig ORLANDO -- Some new NASA images of Hurricane Earl and that oil rig fire that broke out yesterday in the Gulf. Here is the TERRA satellite image of... |
| NASA Scientists Study Hurricane Earl's Strength FORT LAUDERDALE | NASA scientists flew Thursday into Hurricane Earl to gather data about what makes some tropical storms strengthen into destructive hurricanes while most... |
| Bristol has 'em bristling on 'Dancing with the Stars' BILL ZWECKER Sun-Times Columnist Things keep getting interesting behind the scenes on ''Dancing With the Stars.'' A show insider says, ''Move over, Michael Bolton! Bristol Palin is now out-diva-ing... |
| Samsung unveils iPad competitor 'Galaxy Tab' Galaxy series , the Galaxy Tab Android tablet made its very first appearance today at IFA in Berlin. The Tab will initially launch in Europe in mid-September and makes its way to the U.S. and Asia in... |
| Stephen Hawking: There's no God behind universe The cosmologist and theoretical physicist has challenged traditional religious beliefs in his new book, The Grand Design.Co-authored by US physicist Leonard Mlodinow, it says a new series of theories... |
| Husted: Big Head and bed head for astronauts? (AP, Matt Rourke) How would you like to wake up to Big Head Todd & the Monsters? That could happen with NASA. The Colorado band wrote the song "Blue Sky" as a tribute to the space-shuttle... |
| Lunar geography has standard Chinese translation for first time To meet the needs of the lunar exploration and scientific research, and to achieve the standardization of lunar geographical names, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People’s Republic of China... |
| India To Build World's Largest Solar Telescope Currently, the world's largest solar telescope is the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope, with a diameter of 1.6 metres in Kitt Peak National Observatory at Arizona in the... |
| Solar Probe Plus To Plunge Directly Into Sun's Atmosphere Solar Probe+ will likely discover new mysteries, too, in a realm that no other spacecraft has dared enter. At closest approach, Solar Probe+ will be 7 million km or 9 solar radii from the sun. There,... |
| Canadian to command space station in 2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013 will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS), the Canadian Space Agency announced Thursday. Hadfield, 51, will rocket on his third... |
| Three More GLONASS Satellites Put Into Orbit Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket put three GLONASS satellites into orbit on Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said. The Proton-M rocket blasted off from the Baikonur space center in... |
| ISRO To Conduct Key Test For GSLV Mk III Rocket Next Week After a failed test six months ago, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be making a fresh attempt next week to conduct long-duration static test of a crucial liquid core stage for a new... |
| Russian Cosmonauts Long For Hot Showers On ISS A team of Russian cosmonauts working at the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) are unhappy about the absence of hot showers onboard, a Russian cosmonaut said on Thursday. The... |
| God did not create Universe: Hawking God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new... |
| Spitzer Finds A Flavorful Mix Of Asteroids This image, taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission in 2000, shows a close-up view of Eros, an asteroid with an orbit that takes it somewhat close to Earth. NASA's Spitzer Space... |
| Setting Sail In The Sun One of the deployable cameras on the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's IKAROS spacecraft shows the solar power sail fully deployed. Credit: Planetary... |
| Observations Of Supernova Reveal Composition Of 'Star Guts' Pouring Out A team of astronomers led by the University of Colorado at Boulder is charting the interactions between Supernova 1987A and a glowing gas ring encircling the supernova remnant known as the "String of... |
| Critical Polar Data Flows Briskly To Researchers On Oct. 31, 2009, researchers with NASA's Operation IceBridge mission used the Airborne Topographic Mapper instrument to compile data for this elevation map of Antarctica's Crane Glacier. Similar... |
| Extreme Effects: Seven Things You Didn't Know About Mercury As the solar wind encounters Mercury, it slows down, piles up and flows around the planet (gray ball). This figure shows the density of protons from the solar wind, as calculated by modeling of the... |
| Module To Get A Home In Space Technicians temporarily install the Common Berthing Mechanism to simulate joining the module to the International Space Station. Image credit: NASA/Jim... |
| The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666 The galaxy NGC 4666 takes pride of place at the centre of this new image, made in visible light with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. ... |
| Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab, new competition for Apple's iPad Samsung Europe executive Thomas Richter said Thursday the device will offer users “a new galaxy of possibilities” with features such as mobile video conferencing and a video chat function. The... |
| Beckham primed for Galaxy return next week David Beckham expects to return from injury ahead of schedule The England midfielder, 35, has not played a competitive game since tearing his left Achilles tendon while playing for AC Milan in March,... |
| Canadian to command space station Colonel Chris Hadfield looks over a model of the International Space Station at the Longueuil headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil near Montreal Thursday, September 2, 2010. It was... |
| Hawking: God Didn't Create the Universe We're not certain the news reports about Stephen Hawking's new book are 100 percent accurate (and we're looking into it -- trying to get our hands on a copy of the book) but apparently... |
| Star tracking: The next generation keep young eyes fixed on universe David Williamson , Western Mail YOUNG people across Wales are controlling giant telescopes in Hawaii and Australia and helping Nasa scientists explore distant reaches of the universe. The unusual... |
| God did not create the universe: Hawking LONDON – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new... |
| Canadian astronaut to take first command of space station in 2013 OTTAWA, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced Thursday that veteran astronaut Chris Hadfield will return to space for a third time and become the first Canadian Commander of... |
| Nasa mission to hottest of hotspots Nasa is planning to send a mission to one of the most inhospitable places in the universe - the sun itself. The US space agency has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer... |
| NASA Aims to Plunge Car-Sized Probe Into the Sun NASA is developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into the sun's atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before. The spacecraft, ... |
| 51-year-old Canadian astronaut to command International Space Station LONGUEUIL, Que. — Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, Gary Goodyear, the federal minister of state for science and technology... |
| Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station Colonel Chris Hadfield looks over a model of the International Space Station at the Longueuil headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil near Montreal Thursday, September 2, 2010. It was... |
| Ultraluminous Gamma Ray Burst 080607 – A "Monster in the Dark" Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic phenomena astronomers regularly observe. These events are triggered by massive explosions and a large amount of the energy if focused into narrow... |
