Ronald Bracewell, 86, Radio Telescope Pioneer, Dies
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Ronald N. Bracewell used radio telescopes to make early images of the Sunâs surface in work that also led to advances in medical imaging.
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In 2015, an array of 4400 twelve meter fully steerable paraboloid radio dishes, called the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is scheduled to be complete and operational.    Astrobiology Magazine -- The project plans are being developed by a consortium of institutions headed up by Cornell, and funded by the National Science Foundation among others...
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Jodrell Bank Observatory -- European and US radio astronomers have demonstrated a new way of observing the Universe -- through the Internet!     Using cutting-edge technology, the researchers have managed to observe a distant star by using the world's research networks to create a giant virtual telescope. The process has allowed them to image the object with unprecedented detail, in real-time; something which only a few years ago would have been impossible...
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Tributes have been paid to astronomer  Fred Whipple who has died. He was the first scientist to describe comets as "dirty snowballs".
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At the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
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WASHINGTON Gordon Cooper, the astronaut who flew the last of the pioneering Mercury space missions and stayed aloft in a Gemini capsule long enough to demonstrate that a trip to the moon was feasible, died at his home in Ventura, California, NASA announced
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By SHANNON DININNY BOISE, Idaho - Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.
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A young RAF engineer who took part in secret nerve gas tests 51 years ago was unlawfully killed, an inquest jury has decided. Ronald Maddison, from Consett, County Durham, died after having drops of Sarin
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Gavin Reynolds (Rochester, NY) 10/20/04 - Satellite radio was launched just two years go and already 2.5 million people subscribe.
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MUMBAI: India&#39;s nuclear czar Raja Ramanna (79) passed away at 3.15 am on Friday at Bombay Hospital. The architect of the country&#39;s atom bomb project, who had serious intestinal problems, was cremated at the Shivaji Park crematoriumon Friday afternoon.
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Dr Raja Ramanna, the scientific mastermind of India's first atomic test, has died aged 79.
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Ivan Noble, the BBC journalist who has been writing about his treatment for a brain tumour, dies aged 37.
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OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost &#36;2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
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Nuclear scientist Raja Ramanna passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Friday morning following an intestinal problem. Ramanna, 79, was admitted to Bombay Hospital on Thursday after he complained of giddiness and sweating.
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By Jude Webber and Kate Kelland LIMA/LONDON  - Veteran British disc jockey JohnPeel, who championed new music trends like punk on mainstreamradio, has died of a heart attack on holiday in Peru.
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By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN     PHOENIX  -- A troubled, 20-year journey to create the world's most powerful optical telescope is nearing an end, with astronomers hoping to begin using the instrument to look for heavenly breakthroughs early next year...
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Raja Ramanna, architect of Indiaâs nuclear weapons programme, died early on Friday. He was 79. As director of the government-run research centre in Mumbai, Ramanna headed the team that built and tested Indiaâs first atomic bomb in Pokhran in 1974.