The Bloodhound Super-Sonic Car is not going to get into the desert this year to break the world land speed record.The 1,000mph vehicle's basic build will be complete in a few months, ready for...
Solar Impulse, the fuel-free aeroplane, is up in the air again on the fifth leg of its round-the-world flight.The vehicle, with Bertrand Piccard at the controls, left Mandalay in Myanmar (Burma) just...
The U.S. Air Force and NASA have ironed out problems that prevented scientists from obtaining a steady stream of military tracking data on meteor explosions within Earth's atmosphere. Ever since the...
With the massive "People's Climate March" and the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. Climate Summit in New York Tuesday, the debate over renewable resources is heating up. But one potential...
NASA is looking for a place to land its next car-size rover on Mars.Expected to launch in 2020, the space agency asked scientists where they'd like to see the rover land on the Martian surface....
Nasa's Maven spacecraft has arrived at Mars after a 442 million-mile flight through space that began a year ago.After arriving at the Red Planet, Maven fired its main engines for about 33 minutes to...
Geologists have discovered the secret that gives dramatic natural sandstone monuments their shape: gravity.By studying cubes of sand in the lab, they showed that areas squeezed by vertical stress are...
The ship tracks recorded on this map are unmistakably those of a survey vessel moving back and forth on a grid.They were produced by Fugro Equator, one of the ships currently making a detailed map of...
The largest flying bird known to ever have lived has now been revealed, an extinct giant with a wingspan more than twice the size of the largest living flying bird, researchers say. These findings...
The government has unveiled proposals to limit the subsidies paid to large solar farms from next April.Owners of installations bigger than 5 megawatts (MW) will have to compete with other renewables...
Brownsville, Texas is preparing for lift off, thanks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX.This week, the rocket and spacecraft company announced it will build a commercial launch facility outside of Brownsville,...
A UN report on climate change is expected to call for a trebling of the planet’s use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.The report is also expected to argue that the trend of...