Space : Everything tagged "planets"

Poland is just the latest fall guy for an American foreign policy dictated by military industrial lobbyists in Washington

A "minor planet" with the awesomely poetic name 2006 SQ372 is just over two billion miles from Earth, a bit closer than the planet Neptune has been discovered in the inner Oort Cloud.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has entered a new phase, probing to greater distances to study the universe's expansion history. It will look into the Big Bang and nature of Dark Energy.

Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.

Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.

Step back years to the heady days of as Andy Roberts explains how the Summer of Love was in part shaped by the hippie movement's fascination with UFOs

What really happened to Russia's missing cosmonauts? An incredible tale of space hacking, espionage and death in the lonely reaches of space. FT Midnight, May .