The giant spiral disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across or nearly twice the diameter of our Milky Way. The galaxy is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars. Approximately 100 billion of these stars alone might be like our Sun in…

Is the future of humanity in the hands of Russian capitalism? From the ever contemplative DunneIV : RUSSIA is planning to mine a rare fuel on the moon by 2020 with a permanent base and a heavy-cargo transport link, a Russian space official says. "We are…

"Nasa has estimated that an impact from [asteroid] Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be…

Space might be the final frontier, but these days one is more likely to hear about new advances in food technology over men, moons and the NASA spaceships that get them there. The public seem to have lost their fascination with all things not of the terra…

UPDATE: "NASA's Deep Impact may fail to live up to its billing as the first mission to look inside a comet. Computer processing designed to correct the spacecraft's defocused camera cannot fully correct the images taken just after impact. If the situation…

UPDATE: The internet is awash with news of this tremendous day in human exploration. New Scientist , as always, delivers all the info in an easily digestable format. And yes, even they used my all-time favourite science-news cliche : 'However, it will take…