These Will Be The First Astronauts To Fly In A Private Spaceship
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Going to space in a way that no one has gone before
While every other gadget in our lives has gotten smaller, lighter, and cheaper, satellite technology has somehow gotten bigger, heavier, and more expensive since the days of Sputnik and Explorer I.
In 2012, researchers at the world's largest particle accelerator announced they had discovered a particle that resembled a key missing piece in our fundamental understanding of physics: the Higgs boson.
Makes your junk drawer look manageable in comparison
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is less than a week away from the first-ever flyby of frigid and faraway Pluto
Cody Wilson (Defense Distributed; Ghost Gunner) will provide an update on his lawsuit against the state department - Michael Belfiore (Author: Rocketeers; Journalist; Mad Science Innovation Blog) provides an update on the private space race
INTRODUCING THE HIGH-DEFINITION SPACE TELESCOPE
THANKFULLY, NASA CONDENSED THE 11-YEAR JOURNEY INTO AN 8-MINUTE VIDEO
NASA IS SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING TERRAFORMING PART OF THE MOON WITH ROBOTS
You may think your 4th of July fireworks are something special, but they pale in comparison to the high-energy pyrotechnics expected to occur in early 2018, as a stellar remnant roughly the same size as a city encounters one of our galaxy's brighte
Astronomers say features of comet landed on by spacecraft in November, such as black crust and icy lakes, suggest living micro-organisms beneath surface
We could finally get a clear picture of Pluto on July 14
New Horizons went into "safe mode" on Saturday but the probe should be back to normal science operations by Tuesday, exactly one week before it performs the flyby
A team of astronomers announced the discovery of a ring of rocks circling a very young star. This is the first time these 'pebbles', thought to be a crucial link in building planets, have been detected.
An unmanned Russian cargo vessel successfully docked with the International Space Station Sunday morning, breaking a string of failed attempts to resupply the station.
MUMBAI: With nine days left for Nasa's New Horizons' historic encounter with Pluto, the nearly 700-million dollar mission faced a major problem resulting in the stopping of the collection of science data temporarily by the spacecraft.
Lurking 8,000 light years from Earth is a black hole 12 times more massive than our sun. It's been peacefully sleeping for 26 years.
They were made by combining pictures from the probe's high-resolution, "black and white" camera, Lorri, and its lower-resolution, colour imager known as Ralph.
Pits formed when the comet's surface collapsed, scientists suspect
Pits formed when the comet's surface collapsed, scientists suspect
The destruction of an unmanned rocket on Sunday comes at a tricky time for NASA and the International Space Station
The universe can be a very sticky place, but just how sticky is a matter of debate.
Inspired by an article published by the New York Times in 2010, researchers from Iowa State and Texas State Universities have successfully dated Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square to V-J Day in 1945, accor
When the unmanned CRS-7 flight blew up in midair yesterday en route to the International Space Station (ISS), it destroyed a lot more than a shipment of freeze dried shrimp cocktail.
That startling flash in the night sky that many people reported seeing early Monday morning wasn't a fireball or meteor after all, scientists are now saying.
The race to break new boundaries in space is as hot as ever.
SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion NASA contract to fly at least 12 unmanned unmanned runs to the space station; the previous six flights had all been successful
The teams of New Horizons' Pluto flyby and NASA's spacecraft are working tooth and nail to correct New Horizon's trajectory time and flight time.
NASA doctors studying travel that can take toll on organs, skin, bones
Once again, SpaceX has audaciously attempted to land a rocket in the middle of the ocean, and once again, something went horribly wrong.