Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 - NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is nearing the outer boundary of the solar system and may already be dancing on the edge of outer space, the experts behind the pioneering craft said.
Washington (AFP) Sept 5, 2012 - Two International Space Station crew members on Wednesday successfully completed a spacewalk to install a new power switching unit, the US space agency NASA said.
Houston TX (SPX) Sep 05, 2012 - The Expedition 32 crew finalized preparations Tuesday for a second spacewalk in less than a week in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to install a replacement power-switching unit on the Internati
Khartoum (AFP) Sept 4, 2012 - African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers.
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2012 - Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a hands-on medical experiment where test
Beijing (XNA) Sep 04, 2012 - A senior Chinese astronomer on Friday revealed a timeline for China's planned program of space research. In an interview with Xinhua, Zhang Shuangnan, an astrophysicist at the Institute of High Ener
Beijing (XNA) Sep 04, 2012 - An eggplant the size of a basketball, and a cucumber half a meter long seem, at first glance, out of this world. They are, literally. Chinese scientists have created more than 120 varieties of plant
Scarborough, UK (SPX) Sep 04, 2012 - August 30, Tiangong 1's controllers raised its orbit by 11 kilometres, indicating that a target date for the Shenzhou 10 mission has probably been set. As August 30 dawned, Tiangong 1 was following
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Sep 04, 2012 - The Khrunichev Space Center continue to build the flight version of the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) for the International Space Station. As of today, Khrunichev have mounted the ESA R
Berlin (AFP) Sept 1, 2012 - High-tech gadgets to make the lives of senior citizens simpler, safer and more fun are in the spotlight at the world's top showcase for consumer electronics and home appliances.
Mojave CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2012 - XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx Mark I suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV) carbon fiber cockpit will be manufactured by AdamWorks of Centennial, Colorado. The Lynx Mark I is th
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 31, 2012 - NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Akihiko Hoshide completed the second spacewalk of the Expedition 32 mission at 4:33 p.m. EDT Thursday. The
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 31, 2012 - Russia's NPO Molniya design bureau and the Myasischev Experimental Factory (EMZ) are designing a space-plane for sub-orbital space tourism and small satellite launch flights, according to a compan
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 30, 2012 - Flight Engineers Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide worked inside the Quest Joint Airlock configuring their spacesuits and tools for a spacewalk scheduled to begin at 8:15 a.m. EDT Thursday. Flight Engin
Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2012 - NASA launched two satellites into space on Thursday to explore the belts of radioactive particles orbiting the Earth, in a mission that is the first of its kind.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 30, 2012 - At Cape Canaveral's Space Launch Complex-41, loading of the RP-1 fuel aboard the United Launch Alliance Atlas V first stage was finished last night. Though it was completed late at 9:30 p.m. E
