About 2,500 astronomers and experts who meet today in Prague the Czech capital for the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) general assembly have voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet. Pluto had been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh. So to now have pluto effectively airbrushed out of school and university

NASA has now finally admited that they have lost the original moon landing footage of the Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon which took place in July 1969. The magnetic tapes were originally stored at the US National Archives but 2612 boxes, including the Apollo recordings, were later returned to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, Maryland but the problem is that many of

Astronomers are gathering in the Czech capital, Prague, hoping to define exactly what counts as a planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) hopes to settle the question of Pluto, which was first spotted in 1930. Experts are divided over whether Pluto – further away and considerably smaller than the eight other planets in our Solar System – deserves the title.

Space Adventures the company that blasted the first space tourists into orbit is now offering future clients the chance to do space walks, but not without an extra cost of $15m (£8m) that of which is on top of the $20m cost of the flight. Private space explorers will get to have about 1.5 hour accompanied extra-vehicular-activity (EVA) outside the

It’s now been 10 years since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, where she lived between 5th July 1996 to the 14th February 2003. But the creator of Dolly the Sheep, Professor Ian Wilmut, has now said that he is “disappointed” that Britain did not develop cloning technology involving animals, as more could have been done