An unmanned Russian load boat arrived during the International Space Station tonight (Aug. 1), reduction than 6 hours after it launched into orbit. The successful scheme noted a initial time a same-day advancing has ever been achieved during [...]

A robotic Russian bucket ship launched toward the International Space Station now (Aug. 1) to broach a uninformed bucket of reserve and exam a new same-day advancing devise that, if successful, will make it a initial spacecraft ever to arrive [...]

NASA is only days divided from putting a outrageous corsair on Mars, though we don’t have to wait until a robot’s Sunday alighting to see the Red Planet. Starting now (Aug. 1), a web-based Slooh Space Camera sky watching site [...]

Cosmic rays continue to nonplus scientists a century after a fast-moving particles were discovered. Austrian scientist Victor Hess initial cottoned on to a existence of cosmic rays after a high-altitude balloon moody on Aug. 7, 1912. In [...]

While humans are emitting vast amounts of hothouse gases, quite CO dioxide, into a atmosphere, a world sucks some of it behind up.

Day by day, hour by hour, a tragedy is building. NASA’s mega-mission to Mars and smoothness of a Curiosity rover could be a outstanding success … or usually smashing. The Mars Science Laboratory’s 1-ton Curiosity rover is factory-equipped [...]

Soon after NASA‘s Curiosity corsair lands and becomes a hottest set of wheels on Mars, it’ll entrance as a latest Hot Wheels to land on fondle store shelves. Mattel, Inc., makers of a die-cast line of Hot Wheels fondle cars, [...]

Humanity has reached out to a stars on a wings and rockets of implausible drifting machines, culminating in a permanent space station orbiting above a Earth. But a tour from a skies to space includes many smaller stairs that non-stop humans’ [...]

A NASA space telescope designed to hunt for black holes and other mysteries of a star upheld a pivotal exam in circuit final week, environment a theatre for a X-ray look-out to start a primary science-gathering mission, NASA says. NASA’s [...]

An unmanned Russian load boat rising to the International Space Station currently (Aug. 1) is set to turn a initial booster ever to wharf during a orbiting laboratory on a same day as a launch, according to NASA officials. The Progress 48 [...]

The initial of August’s dual full moons occurs tonight (Aug. 1), charity a lunar preview for a supposed “blue moon” rising during a finish of a month. The moon will strech a full proviso during 11:27 p.m. EDT tonight (0327 [...]

NEW YORK — NASA‘s biggest Mars rover alighting nonetheless is about to strike Broadway.  New Yorkers anticipating to see a Aug. 5/6 alighting of NASA’s outrageous Mars corsair Curiosity alongside like-minded space fans can [...]

A robotic Russian load boat done a final depart from a International Space Station yesterday (July 30), after spending several months trustworthy to a orbiting outpost. The unmanned Russian Progress 47 load ship undocked from a space station [...]

A association that’s building inflatable satellite components won a $100,000 grand esteem in a space business foe Saturday (July 28). Space Ground Amalgam, LLC took home initial place in a 2012 NewSpace Business Plan Competition, that [...]

Mars, a next-door neighbor in a solar system, hasn’t given adult many of a secrets yet. But when NASA‘s newest Mars rover, Curiosity, lands on the Red Planet subsequent week, scientists wish to clear a few more. The centerpiece [...]

Researchers contend new South African hoary finds uncover complicated enlightenment emerged about 30,000 years progressing there than formerly thought.

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — It’s NASA‘s many desirous and costly Mars mission nonetheless — and it starts with a red world attainment late Sunday of a smartest interplanetary corsair ever built. Also a many athletic. Like an Olympic [...]

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA‘s new drudge corsair named Curiosity has spent 8½ months hurtling by space toward a end Sunday on Mars. It is set to land nearby a feet of a towering rising from a hulk crater. This outlines NASA’s [...]

A new, intensely low print of a site of a supernova explosion that was celebrated in 1957 has suggested X-rays emanating from a source. The photo, taken by NASA’s Chandra X-Ray space telescope, is a initial to mark X-ray light entrance [...]

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. (AP) — Get your telescopes and model rockets ready. Badlands National Park has announced that it is holding a first-ever Astronomy Festival subsequent month. The Aug. 17-19 eventuality will embody hands-on activities [...]

BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. – Get your telescopes and model rockets ready. Badlands National Park has announced that it is holding a first-ever Astronomy Festival subsequent month. The Aug. 17-19 eventuality will embody hands-on activities [...]

A hulk space craft that doubles as a supersonic jet is closer than ever to apropos a reality. Skylon is a secretly funded, single-stage-to-orbit car designed to take off and land from a runway, delivering adult to 33,000-pounds (15,000 kilograms) [...]

NASA‘s newest Mars rover, Curiosity, has a high assign forward of itself when it lands Aug. 6 on the Red Planet. The rover, partial of a $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, will aim to hunt for signs that Mars is, or ever [...]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA‘s Mars rover was on a final proceed to a red world on Sunday, streamer toward a towering that might reason clues about either life has ever existed on Mars, officials said. The [...]

An unmanned Russian load ship parked itself during a International Space Station tonight (July 28), in a second try to exam an updated space advancing system, NASA says. The robotic Russian Progress 47 spacecraft re-docked to a space station [...]

The month of Aug brings us not one, yet dual full moons. The initial will flog off a month on Wednesday (Aug.1), and will be followed by a second on Aug. 31. Some almanacs and calendars claim that when dual full moons start within a calendar [...]

An annual meteor shower peaks this weekend, though skywatchers shouldn’t design too much, experts say. The Delta Aquarid shower should strech a culmination overnight from Saturday to Sunday (July 28 and 29). Unfortunately, many tarnishing [...]

For Northern Hemisphere observers, a latter half of Jul and on into Aug is customarily regarded as “meteor observation season,” with one of a best displays of a year reaching a rise in mid-August. That display, of course, is a [...]

Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Paraguay, Nepal, Rwanda, Solomon Islands and Syria — if they do not possibly strengthen their laws or yield inhabitant reports that are compulsory of them before Oct 1. Here are some of a some-more profitable class [...]

The Olympics strictly launch currently (July 27) in London, yet it was a NASA goal from 12 years ago that initial carried off to space with 2012 Summer Games‘ memorabilia. Space convey Atlantis bloody off on May 19, 2000, on a 10-day [...]