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Ethiopia unveils telescope in first phase of space programme

Last Updated: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 08:50

Ethiopia unveiled Friday the first phase of a space exploration programme, which includes East Africa`s largest observatory designed to promote astronomy research in the region.

Now, send your own spacecraft to Moon for 199 pounds!

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 13:54

Space enthusiasts now have a unique chance to explore the solar system with their own spacecraft - just for 199 pounds!

India`s space science to be in public good

Last Updated: Sunday, June 30, 2013, 11:37

Noted space scientist Y.S. Rajan says the nation`s future technological innovations in the field will be largely civilian applications and in the "public good".

Astronomers spot raw star gas

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 19:36

Astronomers have detected the raw material for making the first stars in galaxies that formed when the Universe was just three billion years old - less than a quarter of its current age.

Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite

Last Updated: Thursday, May 16, 2013, 09:44

Their project might not sound like much: The college students today launched a tiny model of a satellite the size of a Coke can on a big yellow balloon.

First potentially hazardous asteroid discovered

Last Updated: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 18:22

Pan-STARRS has found an asteroid that will come within 4 mn miles of Earth in mid-October.

Nasa`s Kepler space telescope detects five worlds

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 13:06

Nasa`s Kepler Space Telescope has detected its first five exoplanets (planets beyond our Solar System), BBC reported.

Madhavan Nair heads world astronautics body

Last Updated: Monday, October 12, 2009, 19:12

G Madhavan Nair has been elected president of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA).

Endeavour streaks towards Earth to end 16-day flight

Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2009, 22:08

Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts streaked toward Earth for a late morning touchdown Friday to end a long but successful space station construction mission.

Did far-off comets with watery oceans harbour life?

Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2009, 12:06

Did far-off comets housing vast oceans of water during the first million years of formation harbour some kind of primitive life?

Japanese astronaut tests endurance — of his undies

Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2009, 11:59

In what might embarrass less adventurous souls, astronaut Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth with the underwear he kept on for a solid month during his space station stay and scientists will check them out.

Hubble image shows debris from Jupiter collision

Last Updated: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 09:46

NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope is offering a glimpse of atmospheric debris from an object that plunged into Jupiter in a rare collision with the planet.