June 18, 2013
NASA’s Kepler telescope has identified 503 new potential planets, some of which may even be habitable. “Some of these new planet candidates are small and some reside in the habitable zone of their stars, but much work remains to be done to ...
Europe‘s big freighter, the Albert Einstein ATV, has docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The 20-tonne vehicle hooked onto the back of the 415km-high orbiting platform at 14:07 GMT. It is carrying food, water, equipment and ...
WASHINGTON — The House Science, Space and Technology Committee has begun drafting a NASA authorization bill that would hold the agency to a top line of about $16.87 billion, bar funding for a planned asteroid rendezvous mission, and divert ...
Since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011, NASA has relied on Russian rockets to launch its astronauts to space. But the United States plans to have its own homemade spacecraft again soon. Called the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle, the ...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — To prepare for a future where parts can be built on-demand in space, Made in Space, the space manufacturing company, has partnered with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center to launch the first 3D printer to space. Made in ...
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide — dry ice — may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go. Researchers deduced ...
A Shenzhou spacecraft carrying a crew of three, including China’s second female astronaut, streaked into orbit Tuesday, heading for a prototype space station module for a planned two-week mission. China’s fifth manned ...
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, probably the most famous and beloved astronaut since Apollo 11 and certainly the best-known Canadian astronaut ever, announced his retirement from the Canadian Space Agency today. “I’ve decided to ...
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has made perhaps the biggest discovery of its nearly 10-year career, finding evidence that life may have been able to get a foothold on the Red Planet long ago. The Opportunity rover spotted clay minerals in ...
NASA’s largest rocket yet, a vehicle under development called the Space Launch System (SLS), is on track for its first test flight in 2017, according to experts who spoke at the Space Tech Expo in Long Beach last month. The rocket is ...
The spectacular night time launch of a powerful Black Brant XII suborbital rocket from NASA’s launch range at the Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore at 11:05 p.m. June 5 turned darkness into day as the rocket swiftly streaked ...
When daredevil Felix Baumgartner broke three world records Oct. 14, 2012, by jumping from a pressurized capsule 127,852 feet above the Earth, millions of people watched. And no doubt nearly every single one of them wondered, “Would I do that?” ...
NASA is launching a rocket high into Earth’s atmosphere tonight between 11 PM and midnight Eastern time, in an effort to capture images from the universe’s dawn. The agency will be broadcasting the launch live on Ustream from ...
Astronaut Chris Hadfield returned safely to Earth in May after spending several months in space. During that time, he took amazing and beautiful pictures of our world from his high perch, and when he came home, many people worried that it would ...
