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03/03/2004 GMT
"NASA Goes
Lunar"
"NASA has begun to plot out
its escape route from low Earth orbit, putting itself on a return
journey back to the Moon, planting footprints on Mars, and heading off
to other targets beyond"
Read more from the
Space.com
News article
27/06/2002
GMT
"Would Aliens
Visit?"
When it comes to alien activities, visiting Earth seems to be pretty
high on the "to do" list. But does that make sense?
Read more from the Space.com
News article
27/06/2002
GMT
"U.S. spurns
bid to ban arms in space"
The United States Thursday spurned a new bid by Russia and China to
launch negotiations to ban arms in space, saying it saw no need for a
new weapons pact.
Read more from the CNN
News article
24/06/2002
GMT
"Scotland is
UFO Hotspot"
Scotland has been dubbed the "Costa del Sol for Aliens"
after coming first in a league table of world sightings of UFOs.
Read more from the Sky
News article
21/06/2002
GMT
"Asteroid Just
Missed Earth Impact"
An asteroid the size of a football pitch has just missed the Earth in
one of the closest ever near misses.
The space rock passed well
within the orbit of the Moon and missed Earth by only 75,000 miles.
Read more from the Sky
News article
13/06/2002
GMT
"Planetary
system found that resembles ours"
After spotting dozens of planets in exotic orbits, scientists have
found a planetary system that looks similar to our solar system.
Read more from the CNN
News article
05/04/2002
GMT
"Life on Mars
hopes raised"
Tentative evidence of chlorophyll, which some Earth life forms use to
absorb sunlight, is found in the Red Planet's soil.
Read more from the BBC
News article
05/04/2002
GMT
"Asteroid
could hit Earth in 2880"
A space rock one kilometer wide has a one in 300 chance of colliding
with our planet, say astronomers.
Read more from the BBC
News article
03/04/2002
GMT
"Spectacular
planet show promised"
The five planets visible to the naked eye will line up in the sky at
the end of April.
Read more from the BBC
News article
23/09/2001
GMT
"Scot UFO
attends 20th Leeds International UFO Conference"
A representative from Scot UFO attended the 3 day weekend
conference. A weekend that will not be forgotten quickly. A
conference report is available.
For more detail on the events and topics covered in the Leeds
conference, please visit UFO
Magazine (UK)
21/11/2000 GMT
"ABC News
UFO Internet Expose"
ABC News are running a weeklong expose on the
UFO subject. Critics, debunkers, skeptics and believers all talk
out. The site also contains interactive areas that allows
readers to put across their views..
Visit the site at ABC
News
18/09/2000 GMT
"Call for
asteroid defenses"
A team of scientists in the UK (the Near Earth Objects task force),
have once again stated that there should be an international effort to
create an asteroid early warning system.
Read more from the
BBC News article
15/09/2000 GMT
"Scot UFO
attends 19th Leeds International UFO Conference"
A representative from Scot UFO is to attend the 3 day weekend
conference a member of the audience. A full conference report
will appear shortly after the event.
Unfortunately pictures taken during the event did not develop as
expected.
For more detail on the events and topics covered in the Leeds
conference, please visit
UFO Magazine (UK)
09/01/2000 00:00 GMT
"China's
Close Encounters"
Amid a wave of UFO sightings and the rise of a generation bred on Star
Wars and The X-Files, Chinese space scientists are mapping
out plans to find and explore life beyond Earth.
“China is planning to build a gigantic radio telescope that will
search for signs of and signals from extraterrestrial intelligence,”
says Zhao Fuyuan, an astronomer at the prestigious Chinese Academy of
Sciences. “The telescope will work like the SETI program … by
tracking radio signals” from the cosmos, Zhao says.
Read more from the ABC
News article
06/01/2000 15:33 GMT
"Mars probe
canyon crash theory"
Read more from the BBC
News article
and the ABC
News article
04/01/2000 19:26 GMT
"UFOs lure
Japanese TV Firm"
Read more from the BBC
News article
04/01/.2000 13:39
GMT
"Saving the
world from asteroids"
Read more from the BBC
News article
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