Florida Lawmakers Pushing For Space Shuttle Extension, New Rocket
Space shuttle Discovery is seen after completing its 3.4 mile trip from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A on March 3, 2010 in preparation for an April 5 launch on NASA's STS-131 mi...
Florida Lawmakers Pushing For Space Shuttle Extension, New Rocket
Space shuttle Discovery is seen after completing its 3.4 mile trip from Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A on March 3, 2010 in preparation for an April 5 launch on NASA's STS-131 mi...
Ice And Rock Mix Inside Saturn's Titan
— By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle gravitati...
Space Station Could Operate Until 2028, Says Consortium
The consortium of agencies building the International Space Station (ISS) wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. "There are no...
Water Discovered In Apollo Moon Rocks Likely Came From Comets
A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans' first landing on the moon in July 1969, is shown as it floats aboard the International Space Station. Part of Earth can be seen through the window. T...
Water Discovered In Apollo Moon Rocks Likely Came From Comets
A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans' first landing on the moon in July 1969, is shown as it floats aboard the International Space Station. Part of Earth can be seen through the window. T...
'terminator' Asteroids Could Re-form After Nuke
THE regenerating liquid-metal robots in the Terminator movies have a cosmic relation: incoming asteroids that quickly reassemble if blasted by a nuclear bomb.
'terminator' Asteroids Could Re-form After Nuke
THE regenerating liquid-metal robots in the Terminator movies have a cosmic relation: incoming asteroids that quickly reassemble if blasted by a nuclear bomb.
Nasa Offers 'fast' Opportunities For Zero-g Technology Testing
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space. The technologies should have ...
Life-enabling Molecules Spotted In Orion Nebula
Data, called a spectrum, showing water and organics in the Orion nebula. The data were taken by the heterodyne instrument for the far infrared, or HIFI, onboard the Herschel Space Observatory, a Europ...
Life-enabling Molecules Spotted In Orion Nebula
Data, called a spectrum, showing water and organics in the Orion nebula. The data were taken by the heterodyne instrument for the far infrared, or HIFI, onboard the Herschel Space Observatory, a Europ...
Half Of Earth's Life May Lie Below Land, Sea
While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.Scientists estimate that nearly half the liv...
Sun's Nemesis Pelted Earth With Comets, Study Suggests
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will uncover many "failed" stars, or brown dwarfs, in infrared light. This diagram shows a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass st...
Sun's Nemesis Pelted Earth With Comets, Study Suggests
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will uncover many "failed" stars, or brown dwarfs, in infrared light. This diagram shows a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass st...
Lawmakers Push To Extend Space Shuttle Program
Money key to more space shuttle flights WASHINGTON D.C. -- Could the Space Shuttle Program be getting a new lease on life?Two Florida lawmakers introduced legislation in Washington, Wednesday, that wo...
It’s Not Just The Astronauts That Are Getting Older
All I want from Obama is a decent internet connection. He has talked about that but so far it's just talk. Look at the Verizon ads, "not available in all areas". I have a WildBlue direc...
Chengdu's 24 Kongming Lanterns Spark 'earth Hour'
Participants ignite a Kongming Lantern in the launching ceremony of "Earth Hour" in Chengdu, capital of China's Southwest Sichuan province, on March 10, 2010.[Photo/CFP] 24 Kongming Lanterns were ligh...
Mother Earth News Names Best Green Cars For 2010
In the midst of the auto industry's problems, consumers can find a silver lining: greener options. Mother Earth News names six models capable of 40 mpg or better.
Lights Out At Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort For Earth Hour 2010
PHUKET, THAILAND, March 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort, a recipient of the ASEAN Green Hotel Recognition Award 2007-2009 for its "commitment to environmental protection...
Einstein's Gravity Confirmed On A Cosmic Scale
The theory of gravity proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago can explain the dance of galaxies around one another just as well as it can model the motion of planets around the sun, according...
China Chooses First Women Astronauts
China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The women...
Japanese Baby-bot With Runny Nose Teaches Parenting Skills
It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly baby...
Coms Flies To Kourou
With a take-off weight of 2.5 metric tons and an end-of-life on-board power level of 2.5 kW, the satellite will remain in service in a geostationary orbit for at least eight years. COMS re-uses some o...
Spacex Static Fire Update
SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we decid...
Arabsat 5a Satellite Shipped To Launch Site
The first Arabsat 5th generation satellite today left the Astrium facilties in Toulouse and was loaded in Blagnac airport on an Antonov cargo airplane that will transport it to French Guyana in view o...
Catastrophic Event Halted Star Birth In Early Galaxy
Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. They report their results in the journal Monthly N...
China Plans To Launch Third Unmanned Moon Probe Around 2013
China plans to launch its third unmanned probe to the moon, Chang'e-3, around 2013 and expects to complete the three-phase moon mission in 2017, an official said here Wednesday. The remarks by Ye Pei...
Us Military To Step Up Video-game Training
The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednesday. The Pentagon this week approv...
Galaxy Study Validates General Relativity On Cosmic Scale
The result conflicts with a report late last year that the very early universe, between 8 and 11 billion years ago, did deviate from the general relativistic description of gravity.
New Name, New Look For Satlynx
Satlynx is soon to become GE - Satcom. Along with the name change, the company will have a dynamic new corporate identity and website to match. "The evolution of our brand is a natural progression" sa...
Smith 'over The Moon'
Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the Twenty...