Meteor strike in Russia wounds hundreds!
A meteor strike has just blasted Russia, wounding hundreds in the city of Chelyabinsk, and it is believed to be
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When rotating stars explode.
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest a highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole
Read MoreDrilling on Mars… what the heck will they discover?
NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to
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A Down To Earth Guide To The Cosmos by Mark Thompson (book review).
Mark Thompson’s book ‘A Down To Earth Guide To The Cosmos’ is a practical guide to astronomy. Hardly surprising as
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Our Future World by Curt Stager (book review).
‘Our Future Earth’ will make more sense from its sub-title ‘How The Planet Will Change In the Next 100,000 Years’.
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A Matter Of Porridge: a matter of taste by: GF Willmetts (article).
The housebreaker and thief colloquially called by her alias Goldilocks, because of her straw blonde hair, started it all. After
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Enter… the planet-maker star!
A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may in fact be creating new
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The Science Of Consequences by Susan M. Schneider (book review).
Consequences is something to consider from the start with this book as a third is devoted to notes and extensive
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Destination Mars: New Explorations Of The Red Planet by Rod Pyle (book review).
With so much focus on the Apollo missions to the Moon and later with the Space Shuttle and the International
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Gravity by Brian Clegg (book review).
Gravity. Can’t see it. Can’t live without it. It keeps us on the Earth and if you fall from
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