The SpaceX Falcon 1 did not make it to orbit.

The SpaceX Falcon 1 launch is being liveblogged at Out of the Cradle, or you can catch the webcast video of the launch here.

Astronomers from Boston University have produced a new map of the gas clouds that produce new stars deep in our galaxy. In addition to granting insights into how stars like our Sun were created, the data will help us understand the mechanics and structure of the Milky Way in more detail.

Supporting evidence for the theory that Earth’s oceans may have been brought here by cometary collisions has emerged. Astronomers from the University of Hawaii have located three icy asteroids that give off a ‘tail’ of volatile materials, which have flat, circular orbits in the ‘main belt’ between Mars and Jupiter. This will add fuel to the ongoing debate about how to distinguish between an asteroid and a comet, and indeed what those two words can be defined as meaning.

IBM is due to announce success at building a five-stage ring oscillator circuit onto a single carbon nanotube. The Big Blue boffins believe this gives them a base from which to test their hypothesis that CMOS silicon and nanotubes can be manufactured together.