NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are about to test an inflatable habitat in Antarctica starting January 2008. Its new architecture is supposedly strong enough to withstand the conditions on the moon; to test that, Antarctica’s frigid, harsh, isolated ...

Texas-based Armadillo Aerospace Company has developed a lunar spacecraft, which was demonstrated at the Wirefly X Prize Cup, held this year in Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The Wirefly Cup is the result of a partnership between the ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois have recently discovered a new way to produce water from unlikely materials such as alcohols. Their discovery may lead to the creation of better catalysts (used to accelerate the rate of a chemical or ...

Scientists from Cornell and Boston Universities, headed by Keith Schwab, Associate Professor of Physics at Cornell University, have developed a new scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The microscope’s design is based on an existing technique, which is used in a novel ...

A little comet named Holmes brightened unexpectedly in mid-October 2007, as it rushed through our solar system, to the extent that it became extremely bright and was visible to the naked eye. Scientists are not certain what made the little ...

A team of researchers from the University of St. Andrews recently announced the discovery of three new planets orbiting a sun almost 1,000 light years away from Earth. The new Jupiter-sized planets are orbiting their stars so closely that according ...

The foreign exchange company Travelex, in collaboration with a team of scientists from the National Space Centre and the University of Leicester, recently unveiled a new revolutionary kind of currency created especially to be used in space. The Quasi Universal ...

The first high definition image of Earth was recently taken by the Japanese Lunar explorer KAGUYA. The photograph was taken from a distance of 110,000 km– hundreds of times further away from Earth than any spaceship with similar capabilities had ...

Space Shuttle Discovery was launched today from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:38 a.m. EDT, following a smooth countdown. STS 120 will deliver and install the new Harmony Space Module onto the International Space Station (ISS), completing the ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Gerhard Ertl, a researcher at the Fritz-Haber Institute of the Max-Planck Society in Berlin. Ertl will receive the prize for his studies of chemical processes ...