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It's an unlikely marriage between state-of-the-art and 40-year-old technology has yielded extraordinary results. Signals from seismic sensors left on the moon by Apollo astronauts in 1971 have revealed the Moon has a liquid core similar to Earth's.
NASA and contractor General Motors have officially unveiled the next-generation of space explorer, an android named Robonaut2 (R2). Designed by leading robotic engineers and artificial intelligence programmers, R2 pushes the envelope of smart machine
The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest astronomical institutes in the world and the only research group directly supported by the Holy See. Ten Jesuit astronomers split their time between Italy and Tucson, Arizona, where the Vatican Observator
[The Mission Summary] On December 8, SpaceX became the first commercial company in history to re-enter a spacecraft from Earth orbit. SpaceX launched its Dragon spacecraft into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 10:43 AM EST from Launch Complex 40
The great, shy man breaks his silence.
On September 22, 2010, with the departure of the Expedition 23 crew, Colonel Douglas H. Wheelock assumed command of the International Space Station and the Expedition 25 crew.
The Falcon 9 rocket was carrying a top secret payload. These photos take the lid off and show you what orbited the Earth.
The 500th alien world appears to have been discovered, according to extrasolar planet trackers.
One of the basic assumptions about life on Earth may be due for a revision. Scientists have discovered a type of bacteria that thrives on poisonous arsenic, potentially opening up a new pathway for life on Earth and other planets.
NASA is expected to make an announcement Thursday (Dec. 2) about a new scientific finding that "will impact the search for extraterrestrial life," the space agency said in a statement. (NASA II - The Search for More Money)
Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system — a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter. A NASA space telescope launched last year may soon detect such a stealth companion to our sun, if it actua
A spacecraft has tasted oxygen in the atmosphere of another world for the first time while flying low over Saturn's icy moon, Rhea. Nasa's Cassini probe scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of the planet's moon while passing overhead at an alti
Saturn's second-largest moon Rhea has a wispy atmosphere with lots of oxygen and carbon dioxide, a new study has found. NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected Rhea's atmosphere during a close flyby of the frozen moon in March. The discovery marks the fir
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The $1.5 billion in cost overruns needed to complete the planned successor to the Hubble Space Telescope had NASA astrophysicists fearing for the future of other projects.
Astronomers have confirmed the first discovery of an alien planet in our Milky Way that came from another galaxy. The Jupiter-like planet orbits a star born in another galaxy and later captured by our own Milky Way sometime between 6 billion and 9 bi
A comet visited by a NASA spacecraft is spewing jets of vaporized dry ice into space. "Previously it was thought that water vapor from water ice was the propulsive force behind jets of material coming off of the body, or nucleus, of the comet,"
Scientists are exploring rocket-propelled hopping vehicles that can wander places wheeled rovers only dream of going. The idea is to blast gas from the Martian atmosphere out in jets for thrust. A number of ideas for Martian hoppers have been floated
When an impressive contrail was spotted off the California coast last week, it sparked widespread reports of a mystery missile launch in the area – a theory the Pentagon squashed, but the odd contrail was even seen from space.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has won a 2010 Popular Science Best of What's New award in Aviation & Space.. “At SpaceX, we have ambitious goals for the future of human spaceflight. We are working every day to bring about significant breakthroughs tha
Until now, paper planes have basically been flown in schoolrooms and offices. Sometimes the flight ends in trouble for the would-be aeronautical engineer. But now a milestone in paper airplane flight technology has been achieved: the first paper airp
Made in Space wants to launch 3-D printers into orbit and use them to make parts for spacecraft and space stations, which would be assembled in zero gravity.
In order for your assertion to be true, one half the Earth would not be able to see the moon without traveling to the other half. Since we know that that's not the case, and we know that the moon does not rotate, a permanent dark side is an impossibi
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The Kepler Space Telescope doesn’t just look for planets. By listening to subtle vibrations of the stars in its field of view, the telescope is recording a stellar symphony that gives an unprecedentedly accurate view of the inner lives of stars.
World renowned astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe is spitting mad. The eminent scientist recently reiterated the charge he made against the National Aeronautics and Space Administration back in 2008. "The discovery of liquid water on Mars combine
Your life is going to change and so is the way the earth is governed.
Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of billionaire Richard Branson's London-based Virgin, plans to compete in the upcoming race to develop orbital space vehicles, Branson said. Virgin Galactic was currently in discussions with 2 companies about teaming up w
