May 23rd, 2012
Russia and Japan want to explore the Moon, and in a big way. (more)
May 7th, 2012
A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt. (more)
April 30th, 2012
Two of the companies competing in NASA’s Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program have been busy in the wind tunnel. The overly secretive Blue Origin broke its silence this week with pictures of its unique capsule design and Sierra Nevada Corporation also released news of its Dream Chaser, completing scale model wind tunnel testing in Texas. (more)
April 3rd, 2012
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently sent a number of conservatives into orbit with his comments about building a U.S. space colony on the moon. (more)
March 5th, 2012
A lonely clump of dark matter 2.4 billion light-years from Earth is confounding scientists by its mere presence, researchers say. Contrary to popular astronomy theories, the invisible stuff appears to have been left behind in space after a cluster of galaxies collided. (more)
March 2nd, 2012
Should Justin Bieber be fired into the sun? (more)
January 28th, 2012
STUART, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich says critics of his call to ramp up U.S. space exploration don’t understand the power of science, technology and entrepreneurship to change the future. (more)
January 26th, 2012
Texas Rep. Ron Paul said Thursday evening during CNN’s Florida primary debate that he didn’t think the government should finance another mission to the moon. (more)
January 6th, 2012
While browsing through the pamphlets at the travel agent, trying to find the perfect vacation, the Bahamas, Disney World, or now even space can seem like a good option for a family getaway. (more)
December 30th, 2011
A white paper published on Thursday laid out the country’s five-year plan for the development on new satellites, spacecraft and a space station and provided the official confirmation of China’s lunar ambitions. (more)
December 12th, 2011
Judging from his tone, Mitt Romney must have been hoping to paint Newt Gingrich as a spendthrift nut when he brought up Gingrich’s past support for a “lunar colony” at Saturday’s GOP debate, but Gingrich hit back with his usual bravado and made an important point: (more)
September 14th, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world’s most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago. (more)
September 1st, 2011
Critics of NASA aren’t saying “I told you so” yet, but some of them are surely muttering it under their breath. The word from the space agency last week was that the International Space Station (ISS), the American-led, $100-billion skyliner that has been continually occupied by astronauts for more than a decade, may have to be evacuated by early December if the Russian space agency can’t sort out what caused an unmanned Soyuz rocket on a resupply mission to crash into Siberia on Aug. 24, scattering nearly two tons of cargo across a barren stretch near the Mongolian border. Since post-shuttle NASA now relies on Soyuz rockets to carry American astronauts up and down, it may mean everyone out of the pool till the booster malfunction can be analyzed and fixed. (more)
June 24th, 2011
Some members of the Tea Party movement have zeroed in on a multi-billion dollar area of government spending. This time, it isn’t health care or the public debt -– but outer space. (more)
June 15th, 2011
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran launched a satellite into earth orbit Wednesday, Iran’s state TV reported, in a feat that is likely to raise concerns among those who fear Iran’s intentions and nuclear development program. (more)
June 11th, 2011
NASA’s final shuttle mission will feature outer space’s first iPhone, tricked out with an app to measure spacecraft radiation levels, orbital location and altitude. (more)
May 28th, 2011
A Melbourne student has discovered a part of the universe that astrophysicists have spent decades trying to find. (more)
May 28th, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Endeavour’s astronauts took care of some last-minute space station chores Saturday before packing up to come home and end the next-to-last shuttle flight. (more)
May 21st, 2011
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The 12 astronauts circling the Earth received a blessing from Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday in the first ever papal call to space. (more)
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