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Building a satellite and launching it into space was once a multi-million dollar proposition. But even though miniaturization and easy-to-adapt technology formats like the CubeSat have brought down the costs of building satellites
The world's first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert.
A huge alien planet discovered in a system with two suns akin to the fictional "Star Wars" world of Tatooine is forcing astronomers to rethink their theories about how gas giant planets form. The two stars are close enough together that the leadin
A rocket sent crashing into the Moon last year kicked up several hundred pounds of water, silver, mercury and other surprising chemicals. NASA sent a rocket to the permanently shadowed moon crater Cabeus to see what would, literally, pop up.
The world’s first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion o
The vast plains of Mars may be the most promising place beyond Earth for human colonization, but is it enough for a one-way trip to the Red Planet? A manned one-way mission to Mars would not only make economical sense, but mark the beginning of long-
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration today released data that the Moon has at least enough water to fill 1,500 swimming pools. The dream of space factories and mining operations has long been a goal of lunar enthusiasts. The belief the M
The rocket-propelled vehicle would explore planets more efficiently than wheeled rovers.
After making its first solo glide flight Sunday (Oct. 10), the private suborbital spacecraft SpaceShipTwo could achieve another major milestone — a powered test flight involving the firing of its rocket motor — in the next few months
Ragbir Bhathal, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Sydney claims the light pulses he detected in December 2008 is from the region of space where the extrasolar planet Gliese 581g orbits a red dwarf star. Recently, Gliese 581g was decla
A private suborbital spaceship flew its first solo test flight today (Oct.10) from Mojave Air and Space Port in California. Though the craft did not reach space, it was a major milestone for the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, which flew in glide mode
NASA is preparing a flurry of new spacecraft launches, planetary flybys and orbital insertions in the next two years, and is celebrating the “Year of the Solar System” to mark the occasion. Twenty-three months is actually a Martian year, so hey, it w
In the U.S., people needing a new lung wait more than a year on average for an organ. That’s often too long—237 people on the transplant list died in 2009.
As a general rule, when NASA flies a scientific mission all the way to Mars, we expect that mission to last for a while. For instance, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were slated to run for three months and are still operating 6 years later.
During each month of YSS, NASA's Year of the Solar System web site (http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/yss) will highlight different missions, planets, and night sky events, weaving together activities, resources, and ideas that teachers can use to build
A pair of Russian aerospace companies have announced plans to launch the first commercial space station, in 2015 or perhaps 2016. The station will have room for up to seven astronauts, scientists, and wealthy citizens to perform experiments or just t
The seemingly barren moon may actually be a treasure-trove of priceless resources: a potentially bountiful, mineral-rich – yet untapped – cosmic quarry.
"It travels faster and closer to the moon, and it will capture clear pictures," Wu said.
Black holes, whose existence is now universally accepted by astronomers, are thought to be the remnant of celestial objects such as stars or galaxies that have collapsed under the strength of their own gravity.
Virgin Galactic, which aims to become the world's first commercial company to promote space tourism, has already collected 45 million dollars in deposits from more than 330 people who have reserved seats aboard the six-person craft.
Boeing and Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace won an $18 million contract from Boeing earlier this year for development and testing of a space capsule capable of carrying astronauts to the space station and back.
Topic Discussion on the GLP Podcast. Was the Moon landing a hoax??
Four Russian-made rocket engines are on their way to NASA. The high-tech RD-180 boosters weigh over 5 tons. They are considered heavyweights in the engine world and will serve as boosters for the Atlas space rockets. (Atlas Rockets transport satellit
agine this: A wedge-shaped aircraft attached to a supersonic jet engine is hurtling along an electrified track, carrying a pod or spacecraft destined for orbit. Sound farfetched? It may not be. A team of engineers from NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Even though the planet Mercury is one of the brightest objects in the sky, it is one of the most rarely seen. But this week is one of the few occasions when the small planet is well-placed for skywatchers.
Just six miles of atmosphere separates mankind from outer-space. In fact, a rocket can travel from the surface of our planet to space in just five minutes. In space, everything is different. With no atmosphere, the human eye can literally see for hun
Commander Scott Carpenter was the second person to orbit the earth. His tell all book depicts the events and missions of the Mercury 7 space program.
Imagine this: A wedge-shaped aircraft attached to a supersonic jet engine is hurtling along an electrified track, carrying a pod or spacecraft destined for orbit. Sound farfetched? It may not be.
During their missions, the two Viking landers vaporized Martian dirt and scrutinized the samples for signs of carbon-based molecules that could serve as the raw ingredients for life. At the time, all they found were chlorine compounds attributed to c
The impacts are bright enough to see through backyard telescopes on Earth. Indeed, amateur astronomers were the first to detect them, recording two fireballs in 2010 alone—one on June 3rd and another on Au
