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20 August 2010: Scientists have now ruled out a quarter of the allowed mass range for the Higgs Boson. This narrowing of the search range improves the chances of identifying the particle. Read more

19 August 2010: European astronomers have demonstrated that a magnetar — an unusual type of neutron star — was formed from a star with at least 40 times as much mass as the Sun. This now raises a fundamental question: just how massive does a star really have to be to become a black hole? Read more

17 August 2010:The Large Hadron Collider has mostly focused on the search for the Higgs Boson, but the worlds’ largest scientific instrument may also have enormous potential for improving life on earth .Read more 

13 August 2010: Three citizen scientists - a German and an American couple - have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first deep-space discovery by Einstein@Home, which uses donated time from the home and office computers of 250,000 volunteers from 192 different countries. Read more

12 August 2010: Astronomers scanning the skies as part of ESO’s VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey have now obtained a spectacular picture of the Tarantula Nebula in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. This panoramic near-infrared view captures the nebula itself in great detail as well as the rich surrounding area of sky. Read more 

10 August 2010: Advance in metamaterials leads to a new semiconductor laser suitable for security screening, chemical sensing and astronomy. Read more

6 August 2010: Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time obtained a three-dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by a recently exploded star. Read more

27 July 2010: Lord Rees says Earth-type planets will be found within years. Read more

22 July 2010: Using a combination of instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, or twice as much as the currently accepted limit of 150 solar masses. Read more

20 July 2010: A proposal to design a spacecraft that would seek out habitable planets beyond our own solar system could become reality after receiving support from the UK Space Agency. Read more

13 July 2010: The European spacecraft Rosetta performed a fly-by of a massive asteroid, taking images that could one day help Earth defend itself from destruction. Read more

12 July 2010: Prospects for finding new Earths boosted by new planet-hunting technique. Read more

12 July 2010: A new ultrabright source of entangled photon pairs. Read more

6 July 2010: ESA PR-15 2010 ESA’s Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life after the Big Bang. Read more

5 July 2010: Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe. These failed stars, called brown dwarfs, are so cold and faint that they'd be impossible to see with current visible-light telescopes. Spitzer's infrared vision was able to pick out their feeble glow, much as a firefighter uses infrared goggles to find hot spots buried underneath a dark forest floor. Read more

1 July 2010: “Galactic archaeologists” find origin of Milky Way’s ancient stars. Read more

25 June 2010: Was Venus once a habitable planet? Read more.

23 June 2010: Cosmologists at UCL are a step closer to determining the mass of the elusive neutrino particle, not by using a giant particle detector, but by gazing up into space. Read more

22 June 2010: For the first time, a team of astronomers has succeeded in investigating the earliest phases of the evolutionary history of our home Galaxy, the Milky Way. Read more

22 June 2010: Musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun's atmosphere, have been recorded and accurately studied for the first time by experts at the University of Sheffield, shedding light on the Sun's magnetic atmosphere. Read more

22 June 2010: Scientists have succeeded in identifying one of the most complex organic molecules found in the material between the stars, the so-called interstellar medium. The discovery of anthracene could help resolve a decades-old astrophysical mystery concerning the production of organic molecules in space. Read more

9 June 2010: The world's first ED nozzle hybrid tested. Read more

3 June 2010: Scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Cambridge have developed machine-learning codes modelled on the human brain that can be used to classify galaxies accurately and efficiently. Remarkably, the new method is so reliable that it agrees with human classifications more than 90%. Read more

21 May 2010:  An exploding star that produces extraordinarily large amounts of calcium that eventually make their way into our bones also offers clues on how these calcium-rich stars may represent a new class of supernovae. Read more

12 May 2010: Supermassive black hole is discovered as it appears to be travelling from its home galaxy at high speed. Read more

12 May 2010: A new family of extraterrestrial particles, probably of cometary origin, has been identified for the first time in snow in Central Antarctica. Read more

27 April 2010: German researchers have solved the problem of studying comets close up. Space probes can be damaged by tiny dust particles so scientists have created a computer model to re-create the comet’s brightest areas. Read more

27 April 2010: The world’s largest telescope will be located in the Chilean desert. Read more 

11 April 2010: Baby stars in the Rosette Cloud. Herschel’s latest image reveals the formation of previously unseen large stars, each one up to ten times the mass of our Sun. These are the stars that will influence where and how the next generation of stars are formed. Read more

9 April 2010: ESA has awarded a contract to Eurockot for the launch of two of its Earth observation missions. The first will be the next Earth Explorer: Swarm, a constellation of three satellites to study Earth's magnetic field. Read more

7 April 2010: Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe? Read more

29 March 2010: New UK technology is set to play a major part in clearing dangerous clouds of debris hurtling around the Earth's lower orbit. Read more

18 March 2010:  Giant supernovae raise new questions for astronomers - An international research team has made a breakthrough discovery in astronomical research: the mass of a particular type of supernova exceeds what was previously believed to be its limit.  Read more

17 March 2010:  Akatsuki probe could help to explain why Venus is so different from Earth - Japan is shipping its Venus Climate Orbiter to the southwestern island of Tanegashima, where the satellite's launch is scheduled for 18 May.  Read more

17 March 2010:  UV Exposure Has Increased Over the Last 30 Years, but Stabilized Since the Mid-1990s - NASA scientists analyzing 30 years of satellite data have found that the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation reaching Earth's surface has increased markedly over the last three decades.  Read more

15 March 2010:  Cassini Data Show Ice and Rock Mixture Inside Saturn's Moon Titan - By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. Read more

18 February 2010: Jets of particles streaming from black holes in far-away galaxies operate differently than previously thought. Read more

18 February 2010: Astronauts unveil phenomenal new window on world. Read more

16 February 2010: Space rock contains millions of different organic compounds. Read more

16 February 2010:  ‘Bubbles’ of broken symmetry in quark soup. Read more

12 February 2010: Black hole spin may create jets that control galaxy. Read more

10 February 2010: A French-American team is publishing new 3D maps of the interstellar gas in the local area around our sun. Read more

5 February 2010: Sharpest ever images of Pluto show mottled world. Read more

4 February 2010: Meteorite yields carbon crystals harder than diamond. Read more

29 January 2010: Physicists Investigate Possibility of an 'Unhiggs'. Read more

27 January 2010: Nasa accepts Spirit Mars rover 'stuck for good'. Read more

22 January 2010: A team of astronomers MIT has discovered a disk giving birth to a massive star. Read more

18 January 2010: Asteroid to fly by earth is a natural. Read more

5 January 2010: Spectacular Mars images reveal evidence of ancient lakes. Read more

5 January 2010: Giant intergalactic gas stream longer than thought. Read more

 
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