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NASA Rejected Russia's Proposal to Jointly Probe Hole in Soyuz

The spacewalkers' job was to collect samples of any epoxy sealant that may have protruded from the hole. Photos of the hole from inside the spacecraft circula...

Virgin Galactic successfully launches tourism rocket ship into space for first time

With two seasoned pilots in the cockpit - Mark "Forger" Stucky and C.J. Sturckow - the vehicle known as SpaceShipTwo was ferried to an altitude of about 43,000 ...

Google Doodle tells why you shouldn’t miss December 13 meteor showers

The first recorded observation was from a riverboat on the Mississippi River in 1833, and it's got more intense each year since. Geminid Meteor Shower 2...

Meteor Streaks Through Texas Skies

But Saturday, about 3 a.m. ET, will have less moonlight obstructing the view of the meteors in the United States. According to The Weather Network , from Nov...

NASA Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

For example, it took a whole year to officially confirm that Voyager 1 had reached the interstellar medium of space - the first spacecraft to ever do so. ...

China space rover to land on far side of moon

The Chang'e 4 lunar mission lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the Sichuan province in the early morning, confirmed by the Twitter account...

SpaceX launches Dragon cargo ship to ISS, but fails to land rocket

The booster, No. B1050, was still transmitting data back to SpaceX after it landed in the water. But the tall portion of the rocket missed its goal of securin...

Watch SpaceX blast off to the ISS live online HERE

Monday witnessed both a Soyuz rocket blasting three newcomers to the ISS and a Falcon 9 rocket taking 64 smallsats into orbit 310 miles (500 km) above Earth. 'A...

Haunting Sounds From Mars Sent Back by NASA Craft

This sensor recorded the vibrations directly while the seismometer recorded the vibrations of the movement the wind caused in the solar panels. The air pressure...

3 astronauts enter International Space Station

The Soyuz spacecraft is now the only vehicle that can ferry crews to the space station, but Russian Federation stands to lose that monopoly in the coming years ...

Silly Seal Gets An Eel Stuck In His Nose

No, it's not a tongue-twister for your office Christmas party, it's something that's actually been happening in Hawaii. After spotting the freaky pairing at F...

The crew of "Soyuz MS-11" went to the ISS

Saint-Jacques will be the first Canadian astronaut to visit the space station since Chris Hadfield, who recorded a version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" on bo...

SpaceX rocket booster misses landing as supplies sent to space

SpaceX continued to receive data from the booster even as it tossed in the waves after the unexpected soggy landing. His interest in space, and his background i...

Arizona-Led Space Mission Arrives at Asteroid

Scientists have estimated that in 2135 Bennu could pass closer to Earth than the moon, which orbits at a distance of about 250,000 miles, and possibly come cl...

Weekend storms set IL record: 23 December tornadoes

Central Illinois is coping with damage and injuries after a rare blitz of tornadoes Saturday, when 22 twisters were reported to the National Weather Service ...

World 'way off course,' United Nations warns at crunch climate summit

Negotiators at the United Nations climate talks got down to the nitty-gritty task Tuesday of finalizing the rules for the Paris accord , a landmark agreeme...

Soyuz rocket lifts off with new crew for ISS

A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Alexei Ovchinin failed two minutes into its flight on October 11, activating an automatic ...

United Nations chief Guterres calls for more action to tackle climate change

The issue of a "just transition" isn't restricted to workers in energy industries who might lose their jobs. Poorer nations argue that rich countries, which a...

NASA spacecraft meets with asteroid today

Let's start with destruction; scientists estimate there is a one-in-2,700 chance of the asteroid slamming catastrophically into Earth 166 years from now. All ab...

Russian Federation successfully launches manned Soyuz rocket following October failure

ET from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and went into orbit a short time later. The revised schedule, moving up the launch by about a month, will limi...

SpaceX postpones rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base

This mission also gave ride-sharing a new meaning. For the first time, a single orbital-class rocket booster has been used for three missions, pushing a paylo...

Here’s what NASA’s new mission InSight will do on Mars

The Lander had originally been scheduled to blast off in March 2016, but NASA suspended its launch preparations when a vacuum leak was found in the craft's ...

Soyuz rocket launches astronauts to the International Space Station

Canada's Saint-Jacques added that the Soyuz spacecraft was "incredibly safe", noting it was "actually reassuring" to witness the October aborted launch from ...

Scientist questions ethics of first genetically edited babies

Gene editing on humans is banned in the USA, notes the report , because modifying genes and making changes in the DNA could possibly move from one generat...

MarCO CubeSats Worked as Planned During InSight Mars Landing

An article in the New York Times said InSight has been journeying to Mars for the past six months and will include a seismometer and a heat probe. NASA has ...

NASA InSight lander touches down on Mars, sends back first photo

November 26, 2018 . InSight began the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) procedure when it reached the Martian atmosphere at 2:47pm ET, 80 miles above the plan...

China Stops Controversial Human Gene-Editing Program

Prof. He said that the babies born were "normal and healthy" and would be monitored for the next 18 years. Regarding news related to the Second Internationa...

NASA Chief Scolded Musk Over Pot Smoking

Last week NASA announced that the first uncrewed test by SpaceX is tentatively scheduled for January 7, but Bridenstine said on Thursday that the date is un...

NASA Reveals 9 Commercial Partners for Lunar Missions

Deep Space Systems : A Colorado-based company focused on systems engineering for supporting the design, development, integration, testing, and operations of sci...

One pygmy whale remains alive after others beach again

Two of them have died, but authorities have called on volunteers to help them save the rest by re-floating them out to sea Tuesday. "The remote location, lack...

Astronaut Mike Massimino and NASA's Mars Insight mission

But scientists did not expect to verify successful deployment of the solar arrays for at least several hours. "Touchdown confirmed!" a flight controller calle...

Mars probe faces daunting challenge to land safely

NASA's Mars-bound InSight spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on November 26, the USA space agency said. The InSight ...

'MONSTROUS' scientist 'makes world's first gene-edited babies' in HIV test

Multiple investigations are being sought in the wake of reports that a Chinese laboratory facilitated the birth of twin girls whose genes had been edited ...

Donald Trump on Dire Government Climate Report: 'I Don't Believe It'

According to CNN , the report that President Trump does not believe was released on Black Friday last week when the country was paying absolutely zero atte...

NASA spacecraft lands on red planet after six-month journey

After sailing 548 million kilometres on a six-month voyage through deep space, the robotic lander touched down on the dusty, rock-strewn surface of Mars just be...