The suborbital Virgin Galactic spacecraft, called SpaceShipTwo, maneuvered through the skies over the Mojave Air and Space Port during the milestone test. Scaled Composites is overseeing flight testing of SpaceShipTwo and its WhiteKnightTwo carrier p
Private funding is lined up to see it through all stages of development, culminating with the start of commercial operations in 2020. That funding is contingent on Skylon hitting some key milestones along the way, and a big one looms just a few month
A cheery, chummy documentary about the pastoral patterns inaccurately described as crop circles, Suzanne Taylor’s “What on Earth?” musters a gaggle of enthusiasts to dish on the phenomenon.
"We'll probably put a first man in space in about three years," Elon Musk told the Wall Street Journal Saturday. "We're going all the way to Mars, I think... best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years."
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope charged with watching the sun in unprecedented detail, revealed its first look at the sun to the world one year ago today.
Russian cosmonauts never had sex in space during the 50 years of human exploration of the cosmos, and rumors about secret sexual experiments were myths, the Interfax news agency reported. "There is no official or unofficial evidence that there were i
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space telescope charged with watching the sun in unprecedented detail, revealed its first look at the sun to the world one year ago today.
The rising moon over the limb of the Earth is shown in stages in this fabulous set of images snapped by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on Jan. 19, 2011 from the International Space Station.
President Barack Obama said the White House played no part in choosing the museums where NASA's retired space shuttles will be displayed, and that the city of Houston was not overlooked for political reasons.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to sit atop a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, gazing up at the brilliant stars of the Milky Way as a Saharan sandstorm billows all around you?
The future of long term space missions may be in jeopardy. A new study undertaken by a team of scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas has revealed the efficacy of pharmaceutical drugs tends to diminish rapidly in space.
In a roundabout way, yes. But first we must heat that atmosphere, since the surface of Mars is about –58°F. “We know how to warm planets; we’re doing it right now."
From the first pulse of light to the building blocks of the cosmic web, the James Webb Space telescope will peer back at the earliest phases of construction of our universe.
Private rocket builder SpaceX is trying to speed up testing of its new Dragon spaceship to enable it to visit the International Space Station on the next demonstration flight.
Astonishingly advanced alien super-civilizations may dwell within gigantic black holes within the galactic nuclei! So proclaims eminent astrophysicist and researcher Dr. Vyacheslav Dokuchaev at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academ
The information has come from Voyager 1, the spindly little spacecraft that rocketed from Florida more than 30 years before and is still traveling, farther from Earth than any human-made object ever has.
When it comes to solving the growing space junk problem, solutions range from catching it in giant nets to blasting it from orbit with lasers--and these are DARPA’s and NASA’s best plans, respectively.
While the US has reduced its national space program to skeletal proportions—and is now picking at the bones—Russia has announced an aggressive plan to build a huge base on the Moon. During festivities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first hum
Russia is planning a massive increase in its space launches and may even build a base on the moon as part of a manned mission to Mars in the next two decades, according to reports.
A nuclear-powered spaceship may propel the first manned mission to Mars. Anatoly Perminov the director of Roscosmos, the Russian counterpart of NASA, told the Russian news agency RIA that a joint Russian-US nuclear spacecraft project will be on the t
Nearly a decade ago, NASA built an Earth-monitoring satellite that could have observed global warming in action. Then the agency stashed it in a warehouse in Maryland, where it remains to this day
Forget expensive chemical rockets, exotic fuels, and atomic spaceships. Water can transport us all to the planets. Mars, Titan, the rings of Saturn and Asteroid Belt…all are accessible just by using good old H2O. So says Brian McConnell, a software e
SpaceX already has a deal inked with NASA to become the first private space agency to resupply the International Space Station using its smaller Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule. The 27-engine Falcon Heavy, however, is aimed at hurling large govern
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announces building the first Falcon Heavy rocket at its own expense which has 2 times the capacity of either the Space Shuttle or the Delta IV Heavy rocket (the current 2 biggest capacities) for a 2012 launch.
Astrophysicist Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky calculated the orbital motion of Martian satellite Phobos and came to the jaw-dropping conclusion that the moon is artificial, hollow, and basically a titanic spaceship. The scientist is world-renown for
Watch Streaming Broadcast Live:
LRN.fm
DLive
Live Chat Telegram
Share this page with your friends
on your favorite social network: