Tag: space exploration

Russia will likely dedicate efforts to the new partnership with China.

NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its ...

It isn't hyperbole to say, the survival of our species may depend on a sucessful method of preventing an asteroid ...

It's an unexpected side effect of a useful plan.

NASA is funding a steam-powered spacecraft.

"God created the heavens and the earth," he says.

Things are getting pretty dicey in outer space.

French scientist working on the Hall thrusters -- an advanced type of engine that harnesses a stream of plasma to ...

It's a glorious reminder, but a sad day as well. It's been 42 years since humans have been on the ...

In light of recent NASA budget cuts, a lot of politicians, citizens and, frankly mostly non-science folks, reflect that money ...

Ed Lu, Chairman of the B612 Foundation, shows the telescope of a model of the Sentinel Space Telescope during a ...

This Monday, China took a historic step forward after the nation's manned spacecraft Shenzhou-9 successfully docked the Tiangong 1 space station test ...

It doesn't only happen in the movies: the launch of the SpaceX Falcon rocket, destined to hit the International Space ...

NASA is equivalent to innovation and cutting edge technology, and this was made possible by the creative flow of whole ...

There are numerous challenges that come with outer Earth colonization of distant planets like Mars, or our neighboring moon, and one of ...

On November 26, after countless delays, budget overruns and buckets of sweat, humankind's most capable machine of landing on and ...

The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first person in space.  This ...

If the Americans and NASA are having some issues regarding their space program at the moment, the Russians are doing ...

Trekkies might rejoice at the news that NASA has recently decided to fund a research group employed to study how ...

Yesterday NASA tested a 18,000 pound mock-up of the ambitious Orion spacecraft in a water basin, to simulate how it ...

It sounds like something pinned off a SciFi novel, but it seems like new developments in space exploration technology might ...

Private company SpaceX has successfully delivered its first payload into orbit. It was the second successful launch for the company, ...

Mike Massimino hit the news in May as the first to "Tweet" in space. He began "tweeting" under the name ...

Stormy weather conditions may delay the launch of space shuttle Endeavour, currently scheduled for liftoff on Saturday, July 11. This ...

NASA's immediate future will likely have an emphasis on Earth science, using the International Space Station for research and development, ...