Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity soared into space Thursday and reached an altitude of more than 270,000 feet — past the 50-mile mark the U.S. government uses to define the edge of space. The Unity's fourth test flight began T…
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Five Reasons to Forget Mars for Now and Return to the Moon Hopes of colonising Mars rest on the premise that we could terraform the red planet , making it habitable for humans with a breathable atmosphere and clement te…
Why NASA's mission to 'touch' the Sun won't melt Washington: With NASA launching a historic Parker Solar Probe deeper into the solar atmosphere than any mission before it, the question arises: Why won`t it…
ISRO to deploy rover on lunar surface through Chandrayaan-2 New Delhi: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to deploy a rover on the lunar surface through the Chandrayaan-2 mission. The instruments on R…
Scotland chosen as site for UK’s first spaceport to open by early 2020s A peninsula on Scotland ‘s north coast has been chosen for the site of the UK’s first spaceport. Vertical rocket and satellite launches are pl…
Listen: Sound of Electromagnetic Energy Moving Between Saturn, Enceladus New research from NASA's Cassini spacecraft's up-close Grand Finale orbits shows a surprisingly powerful and dynamic interaction of plasma wav…
No Aliens, But Scientists Find More Evidence for Life on a Saturn Moon Large, carbon-rich organic molecules seem to be spewing from cracks on the surface of Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, according to a new study of dat…
SpaceX CRS-15 Briefings and Events A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after lifting off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 4:30 p.m. EDT, on April 2, 2018, carrying the Space…
"Students Can Ask For Moon": A Lunar Mission Claimed To Be 1st In World The initiative comes even as top minds at India's space agency ISRO are readying to launch their second moon mission, the Chandrayaan-2. …
Massive Martian dust storm silences NASA rover NASA officials expressed optimism that the Opportunity rover will be able to survive and continue its scientific mission. An immense dust storm that may soon encircle Mars…
