Recently in News Category

Space experts are hoping to avoid more satellite mayhem above our heads by introducing an air traffic system for orbiting chunks of metal.

Last year the dangers of the chaos around our planet was well illustrated when an American satellite collided with a Russian counterpart.

Scientists have found the gene which could be the key to looking younger or older than we really are.

Researchers from the University of Leicester and King's College London made the breakthrough as part of research into the relationships between certain diseases with biological rather than chronological age.

Earlier today saw the final night-time launch of the Space Shuttle - and, as always, it was a spectacular sight.

The Shuttle is near retirement and I've got a feeling we'll only realise what were missing after it's gone.

Pluto has finally been brought into focus thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Everyone's favourite dwarf planet has been just a fuzzy dot but now a detailed look has been constructed from hundreds of images taken by the Hubble.

Space rocks that smashed into the water just off Australia could have accelerated the demise of the Roman Empire.

That's one of the things I love about science the most - cause and effect. A cause can have the strangest effect.

A new 3-D movie promises to give you an amazing insight into the Space Shuttle's mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

Moviegoers will have the chance of accompanying astronauts during almost every step of the way, including a thunderous shuttle launch sequence.

For most of us who may never get the chance to hop aboard a private spacecraft for a seemingly weightless thrill-ride, the film Hubble may represent the best opportunity to experience what astronauts have long struggled to describe.

Ahoy! Human ancestors that left Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago to see the rest of the world were no landlubbers.

Stone hand axes unearthed on the Mediterranean island of Crete indicate that an ancient Homo species - perhaps Homo erectus - had used rafts or other seagoing vessels to cross from northern Africa to Europe via at least some of the larger islands in between, says archaeologists at Providence College in Rhode Island.

There may be more to being quick on the draw than Wild West legend, research suggests.

In the movies, John Wayne and Clint Eastwood never lost a duel even when the other man went for his gun first.

The world's most miserable-looking marine animal is in danger of becoming extinct, according to scientists.

They fear the blobfish, which can grow up to 12 inches, could be wiped out by over-fishing in its south eastern Australian habitat

Click here for more info.

It just goes to show you, anyone can make a discovery as long as then look hard enough.

New life has been found in a British pond that survives in an unique way.

The single-celled organism Loxodes Rostrum survives by 'milking' oxygen from tiny green algae that live inside it.

The pond in the East Stoke Fen nature reserve in Dorset was studied for two months by scientists from Queen Mary University.

They found more than 100 single-celled species - including the never-seen-before lifeform.