planet

New, Earth-like planet discovered

News Scientists said on Wednesday that they had discovered a planet more like Earth than any other found before. The planet takes the nondescript name 'OGLE-2005-BLG-390' after one such telescope, named OGLE, or Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment.

26 January 2006, 9:40

Greenpeace wants gamers to save the planet

News But back here on planet Earth, games consoles contain deadly agents of real destruction: toxic chemicals that shouldn't be there. Greenpeace is hoping to persuade gamers to force console manufacturers to be greener.

Tags: earth, console, manufacturers, policy

13 December 2007, 9:03

Nokia mobiles navigate Lonely Planet

News They'll be able to download Lonely Planet travel guides directly onto their mobile handsets. On Tuesday Nokia announced a deal with the travel book publisher Lonely Planet to sell maps and city guides to Nokia Maps 2.0 users.

Tags: planet, guides, maps, city

21 August 2008, 9:37

Micro bugs could save the planet

News A research project at Stanford University is trying to determine whether survival of the fittest can help humanity build better cars. Researchers at the university, led by chemical engineering professor James Swartz, have discovered a soil micro...

22 July 2005, 10:40

Your TV is killing the planet

News Christmas is approaching, and consumer electronics are likely to be a bestseller among gift-givers again this year. But as people plug in their shiny new digital cameras, big-screen TVs, laptops and portable music players, what some may not realise...

23 November 2005, 9:34

Work from home, save the planet

News Both the Met Office and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have advised businesses to encourage home working, saying this brings ecological as well as economic benefits. Speaking at the Workwise UK Conference in London on...

Tags: businesses, money, bill, conference

27 May 2008, 9:05

Use your screensaver to find a new star

News Astrophysicist Laurance Doyle wants to get the planet discovering other worlds -- and in the process get children excited about science and maths. The technique, called the transit method, looks to a planet to orbit in front of its parent star.

1 June 2005, 10:21

News.blog: Google Earth adds Street View

News Part of the fun of Google Earth is flying over the virtual planet like Superman. That technology also features 3D views of the planet and various cities, including updated version-2 graphics of four cities.

Tags: google, virtual, earth, maps

16 April 2008, 9:23

PC shoppers will pay more to go green

News UK buyers would open their wallets to the tune of $118 (£65) each in order to avoid planet-harming hardware. Greenpeace has praised companies including Dell, HP and Nokia for their greener-than-most policies but believes that a number of industry...

28 June 2006, 9:55

Photos: Cassini takes an icy look at Saturn

News If true, it would be the first discovery of a ring around anything other than a planet. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took a break to point its camera back at its home planet. There are no NASA probes near Jupiter right now, but that doesn't mean the...

Tags: water, earth, planet, ancient

13 March 2008, 9:21

Photos: Top 10 Earth views from NASA

News To celebrate the beauty of our planet on Earth Day yesterday, NASA released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands,

Tags: international, earth, section, ad

23 April 2008, 10:28

Open-source rival takes on Google Maps

News Volunteer 'citizen cartographers' are aiming to take on the likes of Google Maps and Britain's Ordnance Survey by creating a free, open-source wiki-style map of the planet. The idea is to do the whole planet," Coast said.

14 November 2006, 11:31

News.blog: Own Robby the Robot

News Robby the Robot, in Forbidden Planet. "If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues. And for a mere $49,999.95 (£28,800), you too can chat with the special edition...

8 November 2005, 9:34

Photos: Lightning strikes on Venus

News Secondary studies of the planet have been extended for two more Venusian days. The sun has probably been stripping away the Venusian atmosphere throughout the planet's 4-billion-year history. Volcanic activity on the surface of Venus makes the...

Tags: earth, mission, express, planet

30 November 2007, 10:25

Satellite broadband lifts off

News Inmarsat COO Michael Butler said in a statement: "It enables anyone to set up a broadband mobile office in minutes and remain fully productive -- wherever they are on the planet. Inmarsat has unveiled a satellite-based mobile broadband service with...

8 December 2005, 8:57