Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2015 - A top NASA official confirmed Wednesday that the US has no backup plan to maintain the International Space Station if Russia should decide to pull out of the joint operation. NASA Administrato
Beijing (XNA) Mar 09, 2015 - China will send a cargo ship into the space in 2016 to dock with a future space module scheduled to be launched earlier the same year, a leading Chinese space scientist said Friday. The Tianzh
Beijing (XNA) Mar 09, 2015 - The world's third country to softland on the moon has the ability to achieve the manned lunar landing but it has no plan to do it, a leading Chinese space scientist said Friday. With China's
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Mar 06, 2015 - The Soyuz launcher for Arianespace's upcoming mission with two European Galileo navigation satellites is taking shape at the Spaceport for a March 27 liftoff from French Guiana. During activit
Beijing (XNA) Mar 05, 2015 - China has been researching the technical feasibility of exploring Mars and asteroids, a top space scientist and national political advisor revealed on Tuesday. Ye Peijian, from the China Acade
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 05, 2015 - There's a whole lot of shaking going on at the Redstone Test Center in Alabama for NASA's new mega rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS). SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for de
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 05, 2015 - Alzheimer's disease is a global problem. In the United States alone, more than 5 million people have the disease and a new diagnosis is made every 67 seconds-numbers that are just a fraction of worl
Beijing (XNA) Mar 04, 2015 - China's first lunar rover Yutu (the Jade Rabbit) is still working but cannot move, a scientist with the lunar probe mission told Xinhua. The rover, named after the pet of a Chinese goddess who
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 04, 2015 - Arianespace's certification to the ISO 50001 energy management system standard at the Guiana Space Center is the fruit of an innovative partnership with French electricity company EDF. Through this
Tokyo (AFP) March 4, 2015 - The 2011 earthquake and tsunami that smashed into Japan laid waste to the country's tourism industry, leaving a coastline in ruins, killing thousands and sparking the worst atomic crisis in a generation.
Dubai (AFP) March 4, 2015 - Dubai on Wednesday announced plans to build an oval ring-shaped Museum of the Future to showcase innovation and solutions to challenges facing cities of the coming decades.
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2015 - If you put a camera in the ice machine and watched water turn into ice, the process would look simple. But the mechanism behind liquids turning to solids is actually quite complex, and understanding
Washington (AFP) March 2, 2015 - US space transportation company SpaceX launched two commercial communications satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday evening.
Washington (AFP) March 2, 2015 - Forget about old economy and new economy. Everything is now part of the tech economy, a prominent US research panel said Monday.
Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Mar 02, 2015 - The Vostochny cosmodrome construction in Russia's Far East has reached a home stretch, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Friday. Vostochny reaches home stretch. Mainly, becaus
Moscow, Russia (Sputnik) Mar 02, 2015 - A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket put a military satellite into its designated orbit Friday, a defense ministry spokesman, Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, told RIA Novosti. The satellite separated from the
