It is one of four sites scientists are considering from which the spacecraft can safely collect a sample in late 2020. "We made our final decision based on which site has the greatest amount of fine...
I don't think I want to do it, I must tell you". Two NASA astronauts successfully replaced a faulty battery charger during the agency's first all-female spacewalk October 18, an event that at times ...
Blue Origin is building a huge rocket factory just outside the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to manufacture New Glenn boosters and is developing a launch pad at the nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force...
The craft spotted the storm during its 22nd flyby of the planet while soaring only 2,175 miles above thick layer of clouds. "We realized that the orbit was going to carry Juno into Jupiter's s...
EST on Dec. 13th, the final full moon of the decade . Scientist say that it will cause an optical allusion that will "make the moon look bigger than it really is, and the moon will shine brightly in ...
Those open issues, said John Mulholland, vice president and program manager of Boeing's commercial crew program, include finalizing a review by the ISS program to confirm the Starliner flying on the m...
These regions near the poles have been studied by NASA's Phoenix landing module, which scraped ice, and MRO , which has taken many images of the meteorite impact space that have excavated this ice....
We will be able to see it here in Adelaide. That's all-weather permitting, of course. According to the Museum of Applied Arts and Science, the best time to see the event will be early in the morni...
Until now it has been hard to determine how many years an animal can live. However, no-one has been able to find differences in DNA sequences that account for differences in lifespans. Using DNA analy...
For the planetary kiss that's to occur, planets Venus and Saturn would appear closer than usual in the night sky. The full moon in December is commonly known as the " cold moon " because of the ...
The dwarf buffalo species pictured still inhabits forests on the island. "Indeed, the reputation of anoas is such that the Indonesian army even named their armored personnel carrier, the Anoa, after t...
Leaving a United Nations climate conference in Madrid where she addressed negotiators on Wednesday, Thunberg told The Associated Press she was "a bit surprised" by Time's recognition, which she ...
Tonight's full moon will have a high trajectory across the sky, meaning it will show above the horizon for a relatively long period of the night. The final full moon of not only this year but of the...
Over the weekend NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine posted a video on Twitter showing the successful test of SLS' liquid hydrogen tank. Pretty well, actually. How do you test a tank that's 130 feet ...
Among the payload on the mission is an experimental program designed by Columbia University students to study the effects of microgravity environments on cell biology. We're going to do a series of ac...
Dragon was loaded with 5,700 pounds of cargo when it arrived at the orbiting space hub. A 3rd cargo ship, a U.S. Cygnus spacecraft constructed by Northrop Grumman, can also be docked on the space st...
Many scientists fear that global warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions have pushed the ice sheets to a point of no return, with potentially catastrophic consequences for mankind. The group of sci...
Meanwhile, the AFP reported that the head of RUSADA says it is unlikely that the CAS would overturn the ban, which comes as a result of the country violating the terms of its reinstatement by tamper...
The data will help with the development of SLS, while also reassuring NASA the tank can handle the rigors of launch and spaceflight. The program will lay the groundwork in NASA's plans to send cre...
ESA said the simple, conical shape of a Vespa payload adapter makes it a ideal first goal prior to progressing to harder missions. "Today we have almost 2000 live satellites in space and more than ...
Approximately 700 ocean sites have low oxygen at the moment, a stark comparison to "just" 45 in the 1960s. The report found that the loss of oxygen increasingly threatens fish species such as tuna...
Stephen Hawking, whose work advanced the state of physics as much as the popular understanding of it, has died at the age of 76, his family has said. Details have not been released yet, but the BBC...
The video spans about three minutes and was captured by a camera that can pivot for more range. Last week China released new pictures showing the Jade Rabbit 2 rover and the Chang'e 4 spacec...
No other details were provided. The landing showed China's space program had achieved the technological capability required for a tricky project, said Richard de Grijs, an astrophysics professor w...
Later, specialists of the Energia Space Rocket Corporation (the developer of Progress spaceships) found a problem with the spacecraft's onboard cable during preparations at the Baikonur cosmodrome for...
But Wu says the artificial moon would save the city on its electric bill because street lights would no longer be needed, while others have suggested the man-made moon would be a great tourist attra...
Although both died within a week and appeared to be normal, the baby animals had genetic material from cynomolgus monkeys in their heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin. The cells in two chimera mon...
The Thursday April 11 launch marked the first flight of the 230-foot-tall (about 70 meters) rocket with the payload from a paying customer. Center core: It's the landing of this third booster that...
With this impact like jet crash on lunar regolith, a very fine dust of 0.5 m to 5-6 m thick covering of lunar surface, I expected a great upheaval in the first impact site, spreading around 10m or mor...
Department of Education merged with Department of Employment and Skills. Senior government sources said it was expected to be the biggest realignment and reform of the public service since Bob Hawke...
The launch was ultimately a success, but was made even better by SpaceX's three Falcon booster rockets making their return to the ground for the first time ever. The rocket is expected to be used pr...
However, the origin of the "slow solar wind , which is denser but about half the speed of the 'fast" solar wind, is more poorly understood. "Imagine that we live halfway down a waterfall, and the wa...
Climate change had not come to the forefront in those days. 49/52 species showed significant shrinkage in body size, and the lower leg bone was reduced in length by nearly 2.4%. From 1978 to 2016, the...
But everything went exceedingly well and the satellite ended up in the proper orbit. The launch is a powerful endorsement of Falcon Heavy , which provides far more payload capacity, at far lower co...
Canada has also been considering allowing Huawei to access its 5G network, something U.S. President Donald Trump condemned as a "tremendous security problem" in a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation me...
