Schoolchildren at Farnborough International Airshow were treated to a science lesson with a difference, as Dr Suzie Imber from the University of Leicester joined Tim Peake to kick off a national summer holiday campaign to get kids making, inventing and discovering what they could achieve as enginee
Space is the next environment that has to be protected against the impact of human development, a panel of top experts has warned at the UK Government’s GREAT festival of Innovation in Hong Kong.
Professor Emma Bunce from the University of Leicester awarded Chapman Medal for outstanding research into gas giant planets
Seventy five per cent of people are choosing to ‘improve rather than move’ as the current climate shows no time in changing (RICS 2011).
There are more planets and stars than there are grains of sand on earth - so why do we think we are the only living beings in this vast universe? View the storys below and make up your own mind. Crop Circles
A time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011 Image Courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Eartheol.jsc.nasa.
Images released from ESA’s Mars Express reveal a series of ‘pit-chains’ on the flanks of one of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System. Depending on their origin, they might be tempting targets in the search for microbial life on the Red Planet.
People travelling from all over the world to Easter Island, Chile, to witness the total solar eclipse on 11 July 2010, now have the chance to add another astronomical destination to their route.
Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the largest ground-based telescopes. But NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has now mapped the dwarf planet in never-beforeseen detail.
CSIRO astronomers have revealed the hidden face of an enormous galaxy called Centaurus A, which emits a radio glow covering an area 200 times bigger than the full Moon.