Russia plans to withdraw from the International Space Station
Russia will likely dedicate efforts to the new partnership with China.
Tag: space exploration
Water Found on the Moon’s Sunlit Surface
NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its ...
Playing Asteroids is No Game: Humanity’s Future Could Depend on Diverting Asteroid Impacts
It isn't hyperbole to say, the survival of our species may depend on a sucessful method of preventing an asteroid ...
Why the SpaceX satellite fleet could spell major headaches for astronomers
It's an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.
Steam Power Might Help in Space Exploration
NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.
Man who thinks “God created heavens and Earth” to oversee US space program
"God created the heavens and the earth," he says.
This is why space armor is becoming more important
Things are getting pretty dicey in outer space.
Wall-Less Hall drives poised to unlock space colonization
French scientist working on the Hall thrusters -- an advanced type of engine that harnesses a stream of plasma to ...
42 years ago today, Apollo 17 lifted off from the moon. Human beings haven’t travelled beyond low Earth orbit ever since
It's a glorious reminder, but a sad day as well. It's been 42 years since humans have been on the ...
Space research more than pays for itself, but lack of inspiration raises questions
In light of recent NASA budget cuts, a lot of politicians, citizens and, frankly mostly non-science folks, reflect that money ...
First private space telescope is set to safeguard humanity from asteroid threats
Ed Lu, Chairman of the B612 Foundation, shows the telescope of a model of the Sentinel ...
China completes first manned space docking with Tiangong-1
[caption id="attachment_13275" align="alignnone" width="567" caption="Liu Yang, China's first female astronaut, waves during a departure ceremony at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, ...
SpaceX rocket mission canceled with less than a second to go
It doesn't only happen in the movies: the launch of the SpaceX Falcon rocket, destined to hit the International Space ...
NASA turns to engineering crowd source for Mars mission in 2018
NASA is equivalent to innovation and cutting edge technology, and this was made possible by the creative flow of whole ...
Worms show that Mars colonization is possible
There are numerous challenges that come with outer Earth colonization of distant planets like Mars, or our neighboring moon, and one of ...
Watch the Mars rover launch LIVE this Saturday [video stream]
On November 26, after countless delays, budget overruns and buckets of sweat, humankind's most capable machine of landing on and ...
The past and future of space exploration at the ‘Beyond Planet Earth’ exhibit
The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first ...
Unmanned Russian cargo ship heads towards ISS
If the Americans and NASA are having some issues regarding their space program at the moment, the Russians are doing ...
Beam me up Scotty – NASA researches tractor beam technology
[caption id="attachment_9727" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="NASA is studying different techniques for corralling particles and transporting them via laser light to instruments ...
Orion spacecraft mock-up tests successfully for Pacific landing
[caption id="attachment_9624" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle at the water landing test at NASA Langley's Hydro Impact Basin. Credit: ...