| NASA to Pick 2 Private Space Taxi Designs for Astronaut Flights Helping to pave the road for the future of commercial spaceflight, Boeing is hard at work on the research and development of a new space capsule aimed at flying people to the International Space... | |
| Solar Telescope Instrument Gets Recycled for New Mission Components are placed on a flatbed trailer for the trip off Kitt Peak. All critical optics and electronics were shrink-wrapped and went down in a covered semi. Everything will be transferred to an... |
| Private Rocket Launch Tests Supersonic Parachute, Reusable Spaceship Tech The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert - a flight that hit a snag while testing a new launch... |
| Hidden Secrets of Majestic Nebula Revealed in New Photo This panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light using the HAWK-I camera on the European Southern Observatory's Very... |
| Fireball Over Texas Caught by Police Car Video Camera A bright fireball streaked across the nighttime sky over eastern Texas and Oklahoma last week, and was caught on video by a police car camera. The spectacular light show, which occurred Feb. 1,... |
| Time for Snow Moon — February's full moon This photo of the full moon on Jan. 8 shows the moon as it appeared to astronauts on the International Space Station. It is one in a series of full moon photos by the station's Expedition 30... |
| EU Pledges Strong Support for Earth Summit BRUSSELS, Feb 8, 2012 (IPS) - European leaders have mapped out a bold agenda ahead of the Rio summit, vowing to transform development aid, help provide renewable electricity to the ... |
| NASA Plans to Invest in Space Taxis NASA is planning to invest in two U.S.-based design firms, for the purpose of conceptualising and building space taxis for astronomers on the International Space Station... |
| President Obama and NASA Officials Honour Winners of Science Fair NASA said, related directly to their own agency's goals. These were from the robotics team "A Winning Robotics Alliance, with Astronauts Cheering Them On," represented by John Drake... |
| Digitimes Research: Japan develops substitutes as China tightens control over rare earth exports China has announced the total quota for rare earth exports in first-half 2012 is 25,000 tons. This is similar to the quota in 2011, said industry sources. However, a new regulation set for the 2012... |
| Astronaut Janice Voss dies at age 55 HOUSTON -- One of only six women to have flown to space five times has died. Astronaut Janice Voss succumbed to cancer overnight at age 55. She began her career with NASA in 1973 while she was... |
| Hoosier astronaut Voss dies of cancer HOUSTON (AP) - NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55. The agency said in a statement... |
| Private Rocket Launch Tests Reusable Spaceship Tech, Supersonic Parachute The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert - a flight that hit a snag while testing a new launch... |
| LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory You don't have to be big to challenge Einstein. A pocked ball just 36 centimetres wide is the latest space probe tasked with measuring general relativity, one of the cornerstones of modern... |
| NASA to double investments in space taxis The Dream Chaser, designed by Sierra Nevada, one of several firms vying to build space taxis for NASA. The U.S. investment in commercial space taxis will soon... |
| NASA Wants Space Taxis The Dream Chaser, designed by Sierra Nevada, one of several firms vying to build space taxis for NASA. The U.S. investment in commercial space taxis will soon... |
| What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change website. If we could see the world with a particularly illuminating set of spectacles, one of its most prominent features at the moment would be a giant carbon bubble, whose bursting someday will... |
| Japan to slash use of a heavy rare earth as China tightens grip China ratcheted up export controls on the rare earth, mainly used in high-powered magnets, early last year, sending prices 10 times higher to around 3,000 yen per tonne by the middle of 2011, though... |
| Oldest Living Thing on Earth, Posidonia Oceanica, Discovered to be Over 100,000 Years Old The oldest living thing on Earth has been discovered to be a self-cloning seagrass in the Mediterranean. Carlos Duarte of the University of... |
| Samsung - Galaxy S3 Won't Launch Anytime Soon The Next Web , Samsung has killed avid fans' hopes and dreams, issuing a statement confirming that while the French media event will occur, the S3 wouldn't be on the guest... |
| Beckham: Loan stars do Galaxy proud Los Angeles Galaxy star David Beckham has been impressed by his team-mates' form during their loan spells in the English Premier League. Los Angeles Galaxy star David Beckham has been... |
| Is this the finest place on earth to hear the call of the wild? My muscles ached from swimming with 400 dolphins beyond that surf, and my head swam from sampling almost as many wines at the vineyard outside town. I was looking forward to a dinner of drippingly... |
| Auroral extravaganza glows in space Time-lapse video from the International Space Station on Jan. 29. These sequences of frames were taken at the rate of one frame per second. The pace is close to the true speed of the International... |
| Shuttle astronaut Voss dies at 55 Nasa astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55. The agency said in a statement that Ms Voss died... |
| Satellite eye on Earth: January 2012 – in pictures Tropical flooding, Australian dust storms, sinking Asian deltas and seasonal fires were among the images captured by Nasa's Earth Observatory satellites last... |
| Special Delivery, Low-Earth Orbit Style! A Progress resupply vehicle seen on approach to the ISS on Jan. 27, 2012. (NASA) When you’re cruising along in low-Earth orbit, running out of supplies is not an option. Fortunately there are... |
| GALEX Mission Comes to an End The GALEX spacecraft before its launch in 2003. Credit: JPL A mission which helped map the ultraviolet sky and worked to confirm the nature of dark energy is coming to an end. Galaxy Evolution... |
| Samsung Galaxy S2 vs Motorola Photon 4G: How Do They Stack Up? Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, comes in three variants - on AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. Motorola's Photon 4G was launched on July 31, 2011, on Sprint. Following is a comparison of Samsung... |
| NASA calls for new taxis to fly to Space Station FLORIDA - NASA is looking for at least two US firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers... |
| NASA Chief Joins President Obama at White House Science Fair Students, from left, Gaby Dempsey, 12, Kate Murray, 13, and Mackenzie Grewell, 13, read in the Red Room of the White House after setting up their science fair exhibit, Feb. 6, 2012. The three girls,... |
| Janice Voss, Veteran of 5 Space Shuttle Flights, Dies at 55 Astronaut Janice Voss, who died Feb. 6, 2012, at age 55, is pictured on the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-99 mission in... |
| Janice Voss, veteran astronaut, dies at 55 Astronaut Janice Voss, who died Feb. 6, 2012, at age 55, is pictured on the flight deck of the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-99 mission in... |
| NASA outlines next phase for its space taxi plan A NASA graphic shows hardware from the aerospace companies that have Space Act Agreements with the agency for developing crew transport systems. Top row, from left: Blue Origin's orbital space... |
| Fireball over Texas caught by police video cam A bright fireball streaked across the nighttime sky over eastern Texas and Oklahoma last week, and was caught on video by a police car camera. The spectacular light show, which occurred Feb. 1,... |
| Samsung Galaxy S3 on Course for March Landing Samsung 's highly anticipated, though currently unconfirmed, Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone will be unveiled at a French media event in the near future. Though gave no firm date in its report,... |
| Felix Baumgartner Space Jump: 120000-foot Dive set for 2012 [VIDEO] Introducing Felix Baumgartner and the extreme sport of space jumps, sponsored by Red Bull. After a few legal speed bumps along the way, plans are back on track for the Austrian daredevil to plunge... |
| ESA Mars probe finds evidence of ancient Martian ocean The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft detected sediments on Mars' northern plains that are reminiscent of an ocean floor, in a region that has also previously been identified... |
| Shuttle astronaut Janice Voss dies of cancer at 55 NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was... |
| Astronaut Janice Voss dies in Arizona (Reuters) – Former Astronaut Janice E. Voss, one of the few women launched into space, has died of breast cancer in Arizona, her alma mater said on Tuesday. Voss, 55, died on Monday in... |
| Report: NASA Should Participate in Dark Matter-Mapping Mission WASHINGTON - NASA should contribute $20 million worth of hardware to Europe’s planned Euclid dark-matter observatory, but only "in the context of a strong U.S. commitment" to the... |
| Man who warned of Challenger disaster dies at 73 NEPHI, Utah – Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in... |
| Record response to call for new astronauts NASA says it received more than 6,300 applications for a position in the space agency's next class of astronauts, twice as many as it typically receives. It was the second highest number of... |
