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May To Decide Gary McKinnon's Fate By Mid-October

PA | Posted 24.07.2012 | UK

The Home Secretary will decide by mid October whether or not to order computer hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition to the US, the High Court was told o...

Apollo 11 Mission Recreated In HD For Moon Landing Anniver

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 23.07.2012 | UK Tech

The Apollo 11 moon landing has been recreated in 'HD' to mark the anniversary of the 1969 milestone. By merging the original footage with data from...

'The Most Spectacular View Of Earth Ever Shot'

Huffington Post UK | Posted 21.09.2012 | UK Tech

A video made with photographs taken on the International Space Station has been called one of the most spectacular views of Earth ever shot. Knate...

Space Shuttle Enterprise Rests At Last

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 19.07.2012 | UK Tech

The Space Shuttle Enterprise - the prototype for the entire space shuttle programme - has reached its final resting place in New York City. The ori...

Roasted 'Hell World' Is Smallest Planet Found Close To Solar System

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.09.2012 | UK Tech

A 'roasted' alien world discovered by Nasa scientists is the closest planet smaller than Earth ever found. The planet - UCF-1.01 - was identified b...

Is This Nasa's New Logo?

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 17.09.2012 | UK Tech

A dramatic redesign of the classic Nasa logo has won huge plaudits online - despite being turned down by the agency. The American space agency has ...

Nasa Loses Key Mars Satellite Ahead Of 'Hardest-Ever' Mission

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 15.09.2012 | UK Tech

Nasa has lost a key monitoring satellite ahead of an attempt to land a car-sized robot on Mars, which it said will be its "hardest ever" unmanned miss...

Boldly Go Where No Orchestra Has Gone Before

James Murphy | Posted 11.09.2012 | Home
James Murphy

As you walk through the museum's trove of wonders, above the models of rockets and mooncraft you hear orchestral music. It lures you upstairs to a free exhibit called Universe of Sound. Here you can experience classical music like never before.

Nasa Scientists Discover New Moon Orbiting Pluto

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 11.09.2012 | UK Tech

Pluto might not be a planet, but it just got another moon. Technically a 'dwarf planet', after its status was downgraded in 2006, Pluto is now thou...

WATCH: Massive 'X Class' Solar Flare Bursts From Sun, Causing Radio Blackout

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 07.09.2012 | UK Tech

The Sun has erupted with a series of massive solar flares which have caused 'radio blackouts' around the world. The most powerful flare erupted on ...

PHOTO: The Clearest Image Of Mars Yet?

Posted 08.07.2012 | UK

Is this the clearest image of Mars yet? This panoramic photo of the red planet combines 817 images taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Oppor...

Hidden Portals In Earth's Magnetic Field 'Open Direct Pathways To The Sun'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 04.09.2012 | UK Tech

When it comes to space, some things sound worse than they are. For instance, a researcher has worked out how to find hidden portals in the Earth's ...

Nasa Reveals Manned Space Capsule Heading To Mars

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 02.09.2012 | UK Tech

Nasa has revealed the space capsule which it hopes will one day carry astronauts to the surface of Mars. The Orion space capsule might look like th...

WATCH: Beautiful Timelapse Footage Of Earth From Space

Huffington Post UK | Posted 01.09.2012 | UK Tech

A remarkable timelapse video of Earth from space has taken the web by storm. Tomislav Safundžić cut various clips by Nasa astronauts into the fil...

Waiting Game: Extra Second Added To Clocks As Earth Slows Down

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.06.2012 | UK Tech

Sometimes it really feels like the day drags on – and from now on they actually will do, by an entire second. At midnight on Saturday an extra se...

Snow On Mars: Scientists Making Stunning Discovery On Red Planet

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 28.08.2012 | UK Tech

Scientists have confirmed that if you can find a flight, you could ski on Mars. Well, sort of. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Tec...

Mysterious Arc Of Light Lurking Deep In Space Discovered

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 27.06.2012 | UK Tech

A mysterious, gigantic arc of light residing behind a massive cluster of galaxies has been discovered by astronomers. It resides about 10bn light y...

WATCH: Nasa's 'Seven Minutes Of Terror'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 25.08.2012 | UK Tech

Nasa researchers working on a mission to Mars have described the 'seven minutes of terror' they are forced to endure at the mission's most critical st...

Supersonic Executive Jets To Be Announced At Farnborough Air Show

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 25.08.2012 | UK Tech

Amazing new concepts for a 'successor' to the Concorde supersonic passenger jet are being developed by a group of companies working with Nasa scientis...

Revealed: Mars ‘Has As Much Water In Its Interior As Earth'

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 22.06.2012 | UK

Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. But now scientists from the Carnegie Institution for ...

LOOK: First Complete Photo Of The Earth From Above The North Pole

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 19.08.2012 | UK Tech

The first complete picture of the Earth as seen from above the North Pole has been released by Nasa. The beautiful picture, taken at a height o...

Clock This: Time Will Grind To A Halt One Day, Say Scientists

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK

Ever had that feeling that there aren’t enough hours in the day? Well one day, there won’t be any hours in the day, or minutes, or even nano-se...

Heavens Above: First 'Camera' For Hubble Successor Delivered

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 18.06.2012 | UK

Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be a giant leap forward for astronomers, allowing them to study the universe in its infancy. Now th...

Titan Spotted With Methane Lakes (For Humans To Fly Over)

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 14.08.2012 | UK Tech

Lakes of shimmering methane may be hiding amid an enormous desert of shifting sand dunes in the tropics of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Titan has ...

Nasa Sends Telescope Into Space In X-Ray Hunt For Black Holes

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 14.08.2012 | UK Tech

A telescope on a mission to hunt for black holes using X-rays has been blasted into space, Nasa said. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, wh...