Berwyn PA (SPX) Jan 04, 2018 - Triumph Group, Inc. reports that its Integrated Systems business unit will provide the landing gear system for the Dream Chaser spacecraft, a reusable, lifting-body vehicle in support of NASA's Comm
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 3, 2018 - Giving gadgets brains will be a hot theme at the Consumer Electronics Show set to open in Las Vegas, with device makers big and small touting hardware with smarts.
Wuhan, China (XNA) Jan 02, 2018 - China's Kuaizhou-11 solid-fuelled carrier rocket is scheduled to launch for the first time, in the first half of 2018, according to the rocket's developer and producer China Aerospace Science and In
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 02, 2018 - Many of the complex folded shapes that form mammalian tissues can be recreated with very simple instructions, UC San Francisco bioengineers report December 28 in the journal Developmental Cell.
Washington (UPI) Jan 01, 2018 - For astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary scientists, space enthusiasts and others with an eye for the night sky, 2018 is expected to bring a variety of exciting developments.
Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2017 - The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force has conducted two flight tests of a new ballistic missile attached to a hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), US officials confirmed in a recent intelligence asse
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 29, 2017 - The Progress MS-06 freighter on Thursday undocked from the International Space Station ahead of its mission-ending plunge into the Pacific, Russia's space mission control center told Sputnik.
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017 - Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are making preliminary plans for an interstellar mission, the agency's first. The team wants to send a probe to look for sings of life on the exoplanets surrounding Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth.
Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Dec 28, 2017 - Scaled Composites' Stratolaunch, the world's widest plane intended to take rockets to the stratosphere for launch, underwent its first taxi test on a runway in California. The Model 351 - aka
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017 - Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have developed a technique for creating 3D shapes out of living tissue.
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 28, 2017 - Printed replacement human body parts might seem like science fiction, but this technology is rapidly becoming a reality with the potential to greatly contribute to regenerative medicine. Before any
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 27, 2017 - When NASA's Orion spacecraft hurtles toward Earth's surface during its return from deep-space missions, the capsule's system of 11 parachutes will assemble itself in the air and slow the spacecraft
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 27, 2017 - The booster avionics system for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket completed system-level qualification testing in October 2017. Engineers simulated the booster avionics operations in a syst
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 27, 2017 - Before we can run or jump, we walk. Before sending humans to Mars, NASA must understand how the human body is affected by living and working in space. Typical missions to the International Space Sta
Beijing (XNA) Dec 26, 2017 - A Chinese start up successfully tested an engine for its light rocket, which is set to be launched by June 2018. The test was conducted in a test ground in east China's Jiangxi Province on Fri
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2017 - Russia has lost contact with Angosat-1, the first national telecoms satellite for Angola launched from its Baikonur space pad, a source in the space industry told AFP on Wednesday. Contact has temporarily been lost, the source told AFP by telephone, adding specialists were now looking into the matter.
