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Sometimes it seems as if the history of spaceflight is a long exercise in oneupsmanship with each agency trying to top the others.
A spaceship built to carry humans is about to venture into deep space for the first time in more than four decades.
Human spaceflight reached an important milestone this week. An additive manufacturing device, or 3D printer, was turned on, and initiated the first official 3D print on the International Space Station (ISS).
In the afterglow of their successful Rosetta comet mission, ministers of the European Space Agency Council meeting in Luxembourg on Dec. 2nd, 2014 approved funding for a new 3-stage launcher. The modular Ariane 6 can launch with two or four boosters
In the afterglow of their successful Rosetta comet mission, ministers of the European Space Agency Council meeting in Luxembourg on Dec. 2nd, 2014 approved funding for a new 3-stage launcher. The modular Ariane 6 can launch with two or four boosters
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has an ambitious vision for the future of humanity.
Prepare for soybeans bathed in rocket fumes
But to get to Mars we've first got to make it easy for people and equipment to claw their way up out of Earth's gravity. "When you're in low Earth orbit, you're halfway to everywhere." Making that first hundred miles easy and affordable
The first spacecraft to ever visit Pluto is set to wake up on Dec. 6 in preparation for its midsummer rendezvous with the solar system's most famous dwarf planet.
Seriously, stop whatever you're doing and WATCH THIS VIDEO.
Japan on Monday will launch a space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid after the event was postponed due to bad weather, officials said.
The idea of putting a Star Trek-like force field around the entire Earth seems like the fodder for a fairly silly science fiction epic out of the 1930s, but according to space scientists, such a barrier already exists.
There's nothing as profound as seeing Earth from space.
The International Space Station's 3D printer has produced its first part, ushering in what proponents hope will be a new age of off-Earth manufacturing.
Because when rockets are truly reusable, they're going to need a place to park.
To see back in time, you need a massive telescope--one big enough to capture light from when the first galaxies were formed, 13.5 billion years ago.
Another private space exploration venture is under way with the British-led Lunar Mission One announcing plans to send an unmanned robotic landing module to the South Pole of the Moon.
WIRED Space Photo of the Day for November 2014.
A team of scientists in Norway are set to research the possibility of growing plants and food crops in outer space, it was revealed on Friday.
Between 1405 and 1433, Zheng set out from China on massive naval expeditions that reached as far as Mecca and Mombasa, journeys with more than 300 vessels and 28,000 crew, excursions far bigger and longer than those of Columbus more than a half centu
Crowdfund this spacecraft and put a piece of yourself in a lunar time capsule
What it might mean for finding life beyond Earth
What makes space travel such a remarkable achievement is how absolutely perilous the mission is for human kind. And no one knows the treacherous journey more than the astronauts who trek it.
Short answer: 142,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Kelvin, give or take a few zeros.
The saga of Dr. Matt Taylor, Project Scientist for the Rosetta mission, which just performed the astounding, historic feat of landing a space probe on a comet was blasted for wearing a shirt with artwork of scantily clad women
A 'shocking' discovery: tiny magnetic fields in meteorites reveal clues on origin of the Solar System
Goodnight, Philae, though not, we hope, goodbye.
The Philae spacecraft has attempted to drill into the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, but may not have enough battery left to beam the results back to Earth. The European Space Agency's probe, which made its historic landing on the come
The lander's harpoon anchors didn't deploy, but it looks like Philae will bounce back ... literally.
