SPACE TRAVEL - NANO DAILY

Scientist devises a solar reactor to make water and oxygen from moon rocks

Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)

The idea is not new; just the implementation. "From the beginning people were thinking this probably has to be done with a solar furnace, because on the Moon th...

Saudi Arabia to invest $1 billion in Virgin Galactic

Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)

The announcement on the sidelines of an investment summit in Riyadh comes nearly a month after the Virgin Group founder said he would invest in the kingdom's Re...

Pope asks spacemen life's big questions in ISS live chat

Oct 26, 2017 (AFP)

Italian Paolo Nespoli, 60, admitted that despite the bird's eye view of Earth he too remained "perplexed", while American Mark Vande Hei said seeing the planet ...

NASA develops and tests new housing for in-orbit science payloads

Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)

For the crew members aboard the International Space Station, this is a reality. Thanks to an increase in investigations coming in through the National Lab and m...

Spacewalkers fix robotic arm in time to grab next cargo ship

Oct 20, 2017 (AFP)

During a six hour, 49 minute spacewalk, NASA's Joe Acaba and Randy Bresnik put the finishing touches on repairs to the Canadian-made 57-foot (17-meter) long arm...

Plants and psychological well-being in space

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

In the beginning of the space age, researchers sought to see if plants could survive in a zero-gravity atmosphere and scientific curiosity was the main driver o...

Russia's space agency says glitch in manned Soyuz landing

Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)

The incident during a voyage back from the International Space Station in April did not put the crew's life in danger, the Roscosmos space agency said in a stat...

US spacewalkers install 'new eyes' at space station

Oct 10, 2017 (AFP)

NASA spokesman Rob Navias described the camera equipment as offering "new eyes" to the orbiting outpost, as live video showed astronaut Randy Bresnik in sharp d...

Roscosmos: International Space Exploration to Continue Despite Geopolitical Situation

Oct 10, 2017 (Sputnik)

Complicated geopolitical situation is unlikely to have a negative impact on the development of the international cooperation in space exploration, Russia's Rosc...

USNO Astronomers Measure New Distances To Nearby Stars

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

Measuring the distances to nearby stars is accomplished by a technique called "trigonometric parallax," in which the tiny apparent annual shift of a star's posi...

NASA May Extend BEAM's Time on the International Space Station

Oct 05, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has issued a synopsis of an intended contract action to partner with Bigelow Aerospace to extend the life of the expandable habitat and use it for long-ter...

Alaska antenna to improve NASA's space communications system

Oct 04, 2017 (UPI)

NASA operates three space communications networks, the Deep Space Network, Space Network and Near Earth Network. AS-2 will boost the capacity of the Near Earth ...

OECD calls for tourism to be more sustainable

Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)

Tourism was one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy, and its potential remained very strong, the Organisation for Economic Co-operat...

Fast-moving space industries create new ethical challenges

Sep 29, 2017 (SPX)

But with advances come new challenges. Similar to technologies such as digital communications and robotics, advances in space science bring ethical dilemmas. Wh...

NASA's New Hubble E-Book Series Dives into the Solar System and Beyond

Sep 27, 2017 (SPX)

Past books have taken readers into Hubble's history and given a wide overview of the telescope and its mission. The Hubble Focus e-book series will be more topi...

Space Cooperation Between China, Russia Needs Long-Term Mechanism

Sep 24, 2017 (Sputnik)

Scientists in Russia's Novosibirsk have submitted three applications to conduct experiments at China's planned orbiting space station under zero-gravity conditi...

Aussie astronaut calls for establishment of national space agency

Sep 22, 2017 (XNA)

Andrew Thomas, an Australian-born National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, told the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Ad...

Mapping NASA's Space Missions

Sep 22, 2017 (SPX)

Along with other interns at the Johnson Space Center (JSC), Fogel was watching the movie Apollo 13 in the very room where it happened. "It was so surreal," he s...

Tech dreams live or die on startup battlefields

Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)

Brian Chae came from Seoul to try his luck at the annual startup scrum, which lets competitors fight for their futures on-stage before venture capitalist judges...

Supercontinuum lasers to inspire better beer, bread

Sep 19, 2017 (UPI)

"The supercontinuum laser has made it possible to measure very small objects rapidly and with high energy," Tine Ringsted, a food scientist and postdoctoral res...