U.S. Army prepare for new age of war – testing hypersonic weapon

The US Army has been testing a new weapon capable of traveling and five times the speed of sound. They launched the new Advanced Hypersonic Weapon from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai at 1... more.

When you hear Clarkson and Co discussing the latest 4x4, you would be forgiven for thinking that the Top Gear team is about to blow another £100,000 of the TV licence payer's money on a trip to the A... more.

Whether you're a student, parent, teacher or otherwise involved in education, a lot of us spend a lot of time focused on schools, colleges and universities. In most cases, here in the UK, we talk abou... more.

If you listen to the prophets (and mainstream news industry), some have been claiming that the earth will be destroyed next year. Some have even associated this with a massive Sun's flare due in 2012.... more.

Is a trip to the Bahamas no longer exciting enough? Then perhaps a more exotic destination such as the Moon might be more appealing? It may sound far fetched but it already being planned. Only the ric... more.

The Russian Space Agency are facing worldwide embarrassment as they have already ran into problems only minutes after launching their space probe which was sent to collect rock and dust samples from a... more.

A 1,312 foot diameter asteroid is said to be on a close path to Earth and will pass closer than the moon at 23.28 GMT Tuesday. It will pass Earth as a distance of around 201,000 miles from our planet.... more.

A trip to Mars is the dream of many astronauts and Moscow have finally allowed 6 volunteers to leave isolation after spending around one and a half years locked away in isolation at a Russian research... more.

Scientists have found an asteroid that may have been an ancient baby planet, formed when the earth was only in its infancy. The European Space Agency's probe Rosetta flew past the asteroid Lutetia ... more.

Scientists have been analysing the Ozone hole over the Antarctica and have came to a rather frightening conclusion. The hole reached its annual peak on September the 12th and stretched across 10.05 mi... more.

Whenever a web site wants to wow and woo its audience, they reach for the HD cams and go in search of some serious overclocking. More often than not, the coolant of choice is Liquid Nitrogen, but have... more.

Iran have failed with the latest step in their space program - to launch a monkey into space. Reports indicate that the 'monkey stage' has ended in failure, which will assuredly have ramifications for... more.

Yesterday scientists have claimed that they have used cloning of human eggs to generate embryonic stem cells. These contain the genes of a specific person. The Journal Nature has published the arti... more.

If there's one thing we know for sure, then it's that politicians need absolutely no help whatsoever in standing next to successes and running like fury from anything that's likely to go wrong. So wha... more.

Researchers in America have created the most indepth and realistic simulation of the evolving universe. This will help astrophysicists to better comprehend subjects such as dark matter, dark energy an... more.

Albert Einstean, the German born theoretical physicist has been one of our greatest minds. His theory of general relativity caused a revolution in physics. For all of his hard work he has been regarde... more.

It may sound like an idea out of a bad science fiction movie, but according to research, scientists at UC Berkeley have designed a system that can decode, then recreate human perception. This means th... more.

NASA have been investigating a new condition for astronauts who spend a lot of time in space. They have found possibilities of eye problems occuring for those who spend months aboard the International... more.

NASA are going to pump around $1.6 billion into private companies, willing to develop space transportation services. The US space agency will be requiring complete systems to transport astronauts to t... more.

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has been the source of some fascinating reports in recent months, and the latest is proof enough to make the hairs on your arms stand on end. They have found that a st... more.

The NASA Kepler spacecraft has apparently found an 'invisible' world after detecting a planet which revolves around its orbit at irregular intervals. Sarah Ballard of the Harvard Smithsonian Center... more.

NASA are launching a robotic mission to the Moon today and they will be including special cameras to photograph areas of the lunar surface, as requested by students and teachers. The Grail Moon pro... more.

The brightest Supernova in 40 years have been found in the PinWheel Galaxy. This is around 21 million light years away from Earth. It is being called 'PTF11kly' and is classified as a 1a supernova. ... more.

Social networking has taken over many peoples lives, and it appears that even the Robots can't escape it. The first astronaut Robot - R2, has been activated at the International Space Station. One of ... more.

NASA have said that the James Webb Space Telescope will cost $8.7bn to run and maintain over a period of five years, when the project is started in 2018. According to documents which were sent to t... more.

New research has shown that the Moon might be 200 million years younger than we originally thought. The new, detailed analysis of a rock which was brought to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 16 has led to the ... more.

We all think that moving around at 600 mph in a plane is quite normal, but hardly any of us will ever get to travel at more than 720 mph (Mach 1). In the USA,  boffins at the DARPA advanced project s... more.

NASA have released a fantastically detailed image of the Necklace Nebula, a planetary nebula. The nebula is formed around a bright ring which measures 12 trillion miles across and is populated with... more.

Scientists have said that the Sun yesterday emitted the largest solar flare in more than four years. Thankfully the report adds that it is unlikely to cause serious problems for the Earth. Joe Kunc... more.

News reached us last week that an orange substance was found in an Alaskan village. Initial reports seemed rather far fetched, with some people claiming the unknown orange material was in fact a form ... more.