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We're all ears as Voyager 2 goes Interstellar
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
Voyager 2 is approximately 18 billion kilometres from Earth. Voyager mission scientists have been closely monitoring the spacecraft for signs that it has exited...
Calibrating cosmic mile markers
Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)
Type Ia supernovae are fantastically bright stellar phenomena. They are violent explosions of a white dwarf - the crystalline remnant of a star that has exhaust...
NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space
Dec 11, 2018 (JPL)
Comparing data from different instruments aboard the trailblazing spacecraft, mission scientists determined the probe crossed the outer edge of the heliosphere ...
NASA's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
The announcement came six years after its twin spacecraft, Voyager 1, broke the outer boundary of the heliopause, where the hot solar wind meets the cold, dense...
George H.W. Bush's overlooked legacy in space exploration
Dec 07, 2018 (The Conversation)
"The time has come to look beyond brief encounters. We must commit ourselves anew to a sustained program of manned exploration of the solar system and, yes, the...
NASA sends new research, hardware to Space Station on SpaceX mission
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
The company's Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 1:16 p.m. EST on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It...
PoSSUM scientist-astronaut candidates test novel space suits and biometric monitoring systems
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
This campaign boasted eight individual research experiments with eleven involved organizations over a span of four flights throughout the second week of October...
UConn Research Project Heading to International Space Station
Dec 05, 2018 (SPX)
The experiment is one of a diverse group of research investigations intended to benefit life on Earth that the Dragon spacecraft will bring to the orbiting rese...
Space makes you a different person reflects Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev
Dec 05, 2018 (Sputnik)
Artemyev is a great lover of the country. "Long live the friendship of Russia and Greece" was the message in the autograph that he gave to Sputnik Greek edition...
First manned space mission since Soyuz failure launched
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency blasted off for a six-and-a-half month mission on th...
Soyuz arrives at ISS on first manned mission since October failure
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency blasted off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome ea...
Ascent Trajectories and Gravity Turns
Dec 03, 2018 (SPX)
The actual shape of the path to orbit is influenced by a number of factors, including winds and the desired payload injection parameters. However, the ideal tra...
ISS Toilet Swarmed By 'Space Bugs' That Could Infect Astronauts - Research
Nov 27, 2018 (Sputnik)
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are coexisting with a colony of "space bugs" which could pose a risk to future space missions, a new study h...
Russia space agency targeted over stolen billions
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
"We have serious problems with Roscosmos," the Accounts Chamber chairman Alexe Kudrin said in televised comments. "Procurement procedures are bad, prices are to...
Your own private space vacation
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
For those few people that can afford it, the latest vacation destination is low Earth Orbit. This is not simply a 30-minute ride in Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipT...
Russian space freighter docks with ISS in automatic mode
Nov 20, 2018 (Sputnik)
On Friday, the Russian Soyuz-FG launch vehicle with the Progress MS-10 space freighter lifted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan for the first tim...
UK Space Agency funds new experiments onboard the International Space Station
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
The minister unveiled close to 3 million pounds of new funding for the experiments, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tu...
NASA probes 'drug-free' policies, safety at SpaceX, Boeing
Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)
The review was "prompted by the recent behavior of SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, according to three officials with knowledge of the probe, after he took a hit of...
Space-inspired speed breeding for crop improvement
Nov 19, 2018 (SPX)
The ability to work at these scales gives scientists greater opportunities than ever before to breed disease resistant, climate resilient and nutritious crops t...
Robotic arm links cargo craft to International Space Station
Nov 19, 2018 (UPI)
At 7:31 a.m. Eastern, the craft was succesfully bolted into place by the Canadian-made robotic device, called Canadarm2, with the assistance of Expedition 57 as...
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