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NASA has discovered a large dent on its brand-new moon rocket after the booster splashed into the Atlantic Ocean at the end of a test flight this week. The damage to the new Ares I-X rocket, which launched from Florida Wednesday on a short test fligh
A space rock explosion earlier this month over an island region of Indonesia is now being viewed as perhaps the biggest object to tangle with the Earth in more than a decade. On Oct. 8, reports from Indonesia told of a loud air blast around 11 a.m
Perminov said the preliminary design could be ready by 2012, and then it would take nine more years and cost $600 million to build the ship. "The project is aimed at implementing large-scale space exploration programs, including a manned mission t
Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has been detected, becoming the most distant object in the universe ever observed. The light from the distant explosion, called a gamma-ray burst, first reached Earth on April 23 and was detected b
NASA's newest rocket blasted off on a brief test flight Wednesday, after a day's delay due to poor weather. The flight is the first step in a back-to-the-moon program that could be shelved by the White House. The 327-foot-tall rocket roared to lif
You would think that an unpiloted space plane built to rocket spaceward from Florida atop an Atlas booster, circle the planet for an extended time, then land on autopilot on a California runway would be big news. But for the U.S. Air Force X-37B proj
After years of competition, NASA's moon dirt digging challenge finally has some winners. 3 teams took home a total $750,000 in prize money by using homemade robots to excavate simulated lunar dirt.
The basic molecules required for life as we know it have been detected in a second hot gas planet beyond our solar system. The planet, which orbits a sun-like star about 150 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus, is not habitable but it ha
Rocket propellant has barely changed in the more than 50 years since the launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik. But a new mixture of nano-aluminum powder and frozen water could allow spacecraft to refuel at the moon or Mars.
New maps reveal colorful patterns on the surfaces of Saturn's five innermost icy moons. Some of the patterns have been seen before, but others took scientists by surprise, suggesting dynamic interactions between the moons and other particles orbit
Astronomers announced today the discovery of 32 extrasolar planets, some just five times the mass of Earth and others five times heftier than giant Jupiter. The findings significantly boost the number of planets closer to Earth in size and help as
Brand-new images from NASA's refurbished Hubble Space Telescope
NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. But the big live public splash people anticipated didn't quite happen. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:
Its victory was hailed by the banner: "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero." It has been five years since SpaceShipOne screamed its way into the history books as the first privately built and financed manned craft to reach space. While that roar from the s
The surprising discovery of Hydrogen at the Moon's South Pole is a tantalizing hint that there may be ice in the deep shadowed craters. Humanity may be granted an unexpected giant step to the stars. But we must have the guts to actually take it. C
Mojave Air and Space Port all appears in readiness for the combined test flights of WhiteKnightTwo and the sleek two-pilot, six-person SpaceShipTwo - the world's first passenger-carrying suborbital spaceliner. "SpaceShipOne, Government Zero."
40 years after NASA lands on the moon they admit that there's water up there. Moon Mineralogy Mapper, a NASA instrument onboard Chandrayaan-I, detected wavelengths of reflected light that would indicate a chemical bond between hydrogen and oxygen.
Mars was not always red, according to a new theory for how the planet took on its characteristic ruddy hue. Until recently, Mars' color was thought to be a product of liquid water, which scientists think flowed over the planet's surface billions o
One of the smallest exoplanets yet discovered has just been confirmed as a rocky world. The planet, called CoRoT-7b, is the first planet beyond our solar system with a proven density similar to Earth's, astronomers say. Most known exoplanets are larg
To hunt for the "ninjas" of the cosmos — dim objects that lurk in the vast dark spaces between planets and stars — scientists are building by far the most sensitive set of wide-angle infrared goggles ever, a space telescope called the Widefield Infra
A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere.
A commercial vehicle successfully completed a mock lunar landing Saturday, qualifying its team to win a $1 million prize offered for NASA's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The rocket-powered craft, built by Armadillo Aerospace, ascended 5
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, rebuilt by astronauts, has demonstrated
its new powers with a stunning set of images of exploding stars, a
stellar nursery, colliding galaxies and the lensing effect of a
galactic cluster nearly halfway across the universe.
There is a way to surmount the problems [of manned flight to Mars] while reducing the
cost and technical requirements, but it demands that we ask this vexing
question: Why are we so interested in bringing the Mars astronauts home
again?
A newly discovered planet that whips around its star in less than a day may have been found mere cosmic moments before its demise.
The planet, WASP-18b, is one of the "hot Jupiter" class of planets that are huge in size (10 times the mass of Jupiter in this case), but orbit very close to their stars. Their very existence was surprising to astronomers when the first of them were found a few years back. Now they've become common discoveries.
The Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of an interplanetary smashup, and oh, what a colossal event it was… apparently, 100 light years away around the young star HD 172555, an object the size of the Moon slammed into a planet the size of Mercury!
First, the way cool animation they created portraying the event:
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic is developing plans to use its space tourism vehicle WhiteKnightTwo as a platform to launch commercial satellites by 2012.
In this passionate 2006 talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan
lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks
entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. (censored)
Virgin Galactic unveiled a new partnership that pushes the throttle forward on its plans for commercial suborbital space travel and a new small satellite launch capacity.
The deal involves Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments and Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceliner group bankrolled by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson to fly "pay-per-view" customers to the edge of space.
Hubble has trained its new camera on the atmospheric disturbance on Jupiter believed to have been caused by a comet or asteroid impact.
