A burning oil pipeline in northern Iraq produced an immense cloud of black smoke that stretched…
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Iinfrared Astronomy is a hot topic
ESA’s Herschel spacecraft will collect infrared radiation from some of the coldest and most distant objects…
Pay-as-you-go motoring just around the corner
Death and taxes may be unavoidable, but road tolls and car insurance could be made fairer…
First European student experiment reaches the ISS
Preparations for the Spanish Soyuz mission on the International Space Station (ISS) in October took another…
Hubble assists Rosetta comet mission
Results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have played a major role in preparing ESA’s ambitious…
Fire on the French Riviera
A month after an earlier blaze was quelled, fire returned to the forested hills above the…
Close encounters of another kind?
The latest discovery of a large asteroid moving through our Solar System puts a spotlight on…
Winner announced for science fiction competition
Selected by an international jury out of 104 entries from 36 countries, Lavie Tidhar’s story Temporal…
How to drop in on Titan
You need to have thought of almost every eventuality when landing on a distant moon in…
SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest award ceremony
Today, at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, the outcome of the SUCCESS 2002 Student Contest…