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No matter what others might say, the Mars mission is very much on. The European Space Agency is on a recruitment drive – they want half a dozen committed individuals, men and women, who would volunteer to remain captive in...

For one thing, the Audit Bureau of Circulation will soon start dishing them out as a daily statistic (not just as a month's worth of unique using rolled into one). For another, Johnston Press, one of Britain's regional chains, is...

The images sent back to Earth by the ‘Mars Express’ reveal a 35 kilometer wide crater with signs of erosion that could have been due to running water – an exciting find! No – there has been no sightings of...

Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras...

PARIS: Anew mega ring has discovered around Saturn. Scientist believe that its genesis is a small moon of a distant giant planet. Phoebe, a Saturnian satellite measuring only 214 kilometres (133 miles) across, probably provides the record-breaking tenuous circle of...

A man involved in an incident with a Bay Area Rapid Transit officer shown on the Internet will not face felony charges. Michael Gibson appeared in Alameda County Superior Court on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of...

Biggest ever dinosaur footprints found in France Local enthusiasts find sauropod tracks up to two metres in diameter spread over large area in Jura mountains Marié-Hèlene Marcaud and Patrice Landry next to a sauropoda dinosaur footprint discovered in Pagne, north...

The find is named Darwinopterus , after famous naturalist Charles Darwin. Experts say it provides the first clear evidence of a controversial type of evolution called modular evolution. The 20 new fossils found in the north-east of the country show...

Pacific white sharks spend months near the northern and central California coast between August and February foraging among elephant seals, sea lions and other prey, according to a new study published online Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society....