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Docking aborted for Russia's first humanoid robot in space

The Soyuz is on safe trajectory above and behind the space station, NASA said . Formally known as Final Experimental Demonstration Research it will be sent t...

Watching the Southeast Coast Through Weekend

Afterward, the system is expected to move northeastward, to an area offshore of the southeastern US coast. Land interaction today is limiting organization, but ...

ISRO releases first photo of moon taken by Chandrayaan 2

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) tweeted the image showing two significant Moon landmarks, the Apollo crater and the Mare Orientale basin. Other ma...

Russian Federation sends robot into space to test out new booster rocket

The humanoid robot Skybot F-850 nicknamed Fedor was created by the Androidnaya Technika company in cooperation with the Foundation for Advanced Research Pro...

NASA astronauts complete a 6.5-hour spacewalk

Hague's mother delivered homemade goodies to Houston flight controllers midway through the planned six-hour spacewalk. This is now the second IDA to be instal...

U.S. Space Command launching August 29; Alabama’s Redstone Arsenal on shortlist

Space Force is closer to becoming a reality. "The direction is clear". Raymond has acknowledged that the standup of the new organization won't be easy, tell...

Scientists detect a black hole swallowing a neutron star 'like Pac-man'

The team has an automated system that instantly classifies gravitational wave events. The facilities found ripples in the fabric of the universe and therefo...

India's Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters moon's orbit

In order to save fuel, India's space agency has chosen a circuitous route to take advantage of the Earth's gravity, which will help slingshot the satellite ...

Chandrayaan-2 successfully placed in lunar orbit by ISRO

Sivan also said that an invitation has been extended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to witness the landing. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratul...

Verhofstadt slams Johnson's 'bluster and political blame games' on the backstop

Johnson is mounting a fresh campaign to convince the EU to drop the backstop , vehemently opposed by Brexiteers as it could tie Britain to EU customs and other...

Chandrayaan-2 Successfully Inserted Into Lunar Orbit: ISRO

ISRO further confirmed that "all the systems of Chandrayaan-2 are healthy". The maneuver's duration was around 1738 seconds. According to an ISRO official, ...

From SpaceX to NASA: New Astronaut Robb Kulin's Path to Space

Chell Roberts, USD's Dean of the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. It's the 22nd astronaut class since the first induction of the Mercury Seven by NASA in ...

'Shock' as scientists find plastic microbeads in remote Arctic ice

They visited five ice floes by ship-based helicopters or dinghies during three expeditions and compared them with snow taken from the Swiss Alps and the busy ba...

Juno reveals young Jupiter hit by planet 10 TIMES heavier than Earth

What we'd typically expect - and this is true for both rocky planets and gas giants - is layers of increasing density, with the densest material packed at t...

Astronomers Spot Mysterious Flash From Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, just produced an " unprecedented " bright flash-the cause of which is now unknown. The team of sc...

It's time for the best meteor shower of the year: The Perseids

This year, the best time to view the show will be in the last hours before dawn on the mornings of August 12th and 13th. "For the best meteor watching, face t...

Chandrayaan-2 leaves earth’s orbit, heads for the moon

Chandrayaan-2 is expected to approach the moon's orbit on 20 August. Chandrayaan 2 fired the spacecraft's liquid engine for 1,203 seconds, making it head to...

Perseid meteor shower set to peak: What you need to know

The Perseid meteor shower 2019 is already underway, but fear not if you haven't noticed - it's the peak you want to watch out for. Earth Sky also notes th...

Look Up, The Best Meteor Shower Of The Year Is Here

Cloudy skies and a bright moon will combine to make it hard, if not impossible, to see the Perseid meteor shower tonight. According to the museum , the bes...

Asteroid 2006 QQ23 Pose No Threat Of Impact With Earth

The Apollo-class celestial rock is set to whiz past Earth on August 28 at a phenomenal 18km per second.to NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies ( CNEOS ) ...

United Nations pushes for sustainable land use, plant-based fuel

Marta Rivera-Ferre, one of the report's lead authors and a food systems researcher at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia in Spain, told Sci...

See the Perseid Meteor Shower at Wildwood State Park

NWS meteorologist Lee Hendricks says Sunday night into early Monday morning is expected to yield clear skies, though. Numerous meteors leave a glittering trail ...

NASA shows off a lovely new image of Jupiter

Parallel bands of cloud contrast with one another as they travel in opposite directions across Jupiter's tumultuous "surface". The raging storm that is the Gre...

‘Squawkzilla’: Cannibal parrot half the size of a man is found

Although the area is now very cold and known for its skiing, Scofield said the climate at the time meant the parrot would have lived near a giant lake in a dive...

Odds are increasing for an above-normal hurricane season

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center has increased the probability for a more active hurricane season from the 30% that was predicted in May, to a 45% chance of...

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Soon

The action will be toward the northeast. The meteor shower of this August will be accompanied by a bright moon which might make observing the unique show a ...

Amos-17 communication satellite successfully launched

But Mother Nature eventually cooperated, and the liftoff occurred without a hitch. Amos-17, worked by Boeing , will give Ka, Ku and C-band signal transmission ...

ULA Atlas 5 launches Air Force AEHF-5 communications satellite

Two issues with the rocket were investigated in the minutes before launch, pushing back the initial liftoff time by almost half an hour. Constructed by Lockhee...

SpaceX Launches Israeli Communications Satellite

EDT and will take place on Pad 40 in Cape Canaveral. On Sept. 1, 2016 another Falcon 9 rocket was preparing for a routine static fire before launch. Amos-17 i...

Became known, when will the meteor shower the Perseids

Every year the Earth flies a meteor storm, causing a lovely phenomenon of the meteor shower . When is the next meteor shower happening? And that's somethin...

NASA’s TESS satellite discovers ‘Super-Earth’ that may be suitable for life

The planet , called GJ 357 d, is located 31 light-years away in the constellation Hydra and orbits a star named GJ 357, an M-type dwarf about one-third the...

This sizzling exoplanet is turning into a football

Therefore, unlike other hot Jupiters that are still cool enough to condense iron and magnesium into clouds, this sizzling hot world emits the gases from its s...

NASA Satellite Discovers Planet That Could Potentially Support Life

The researchers believe there there is a good chance that more planets might lie further out in the star system - some of which might potentially lie the star's...

Universal Orlando announces new theme park called ‘Epic Universe’

Williams and Roberts were joined at a news conference Thursday morning by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings. The new park will b...

TESS satellite uncovers its 'first nearby super-Earth'

Researchers said that GJ 357 d has a thick atmosphere, so it could maintain liquid water on the surface like planet Earth could. The potentially habitable...