China Readies Next Human Space Mission for Launch This Year
Artist’s concept of the Tiangong-1 in Earth orbit. Credit: CMSA China is set to launch its second space laboratory – Tiangong-2 – in the third quarter of this year. That launch is to be followed by the liftoff of the piloted Shenzhou-11 spacecraft. The state-run Xinhua news agency has reported that the fourth quarter launch […]
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Images at lightspeed
The SpaceDataHighway precursor has helped raw data travel from space to ground and be processed into an image of the Brazilian coast in a record-breaking 13 minutes To source
Google Lunar X-Prize: The Private Moon Race Teams (Images)
The Google Lunar X Prize is an international challenge to land a robot on the lunar surface, have it travel at least 1,650 feet (500 meters) and send data and images back to Earth. The first privately funded team to do all of this before the end of 2017 will receive the $20 million grand […]
Home Again, At Last: Soyuz Capsule Brings Astronauts to Earth
The Soyuz-TMN-18M brings the Expedition 46 space explorers home. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls After a record-setting 12-month stay on the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth yesterday (March 1). Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov returned with them after spending six months in space. A stunning photograph snapped by veteran […]
End of 1-Year Space Mission 'Bittersweet' for Astronaut Scott Kelly (Video)
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has mixed emotions about being back on Earth after nearly a year in space. Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko touched down on the steppe of Kazakhstan late Tuesday (March 1), wrapping up their unprecedented 340-day stay aboard the International Space Station. (Cosmonaut Sergey Volkov came home with them, but his space […]
British Astronaut Reveals LEGO Minifigures of His Space Station Crew
LEGO minifigures of the Expedition 46 crew are now on board the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/Tim Peake Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko, the first astronaut and cosmonaut to log a year on the International Space Station, left a little bit — or rather a little version — of themselves on the orbital outpost before […]
Gravitons Are Not A Thing … Really | Video
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All Quantum Gravity Theories Suck – Here’s Why | Video
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Mars' Ancient Face-Lift: Water Carved Planet's Features, Not Massive Volcano
An artist’s impression of what Mars might have looked like 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. Credit: Didier Florentz The face of Mars has changed since the planet’s younger days. Billions of years ago, rain or snow may have carved major valleys on Mars, just as the largest volcanic structure in the […]
Powerful Radio Bursts in Space Can Explode Over and Over
The Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico identified the first repeating FRBs, millisecond-long bursts of energy that appear in the sky thousands of time each day. Credit: Danielle Futselaar Powerful explosions of radio waves known as fast radio bursts explode in the sky like a flash from a camera — a single, great release of energy. […]
One-Year Crew Returns to Earth
The Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft is seen as it lands with Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov of Roscosmos near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, March 2, 2016 (Kazakh time). To source
By the Numbers: Astronaut Scott Kelly's Year-in-Space Mission
One-year mission crewmembers Scott Kelly of NASA (left) and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos (right) celebrated their 300th consecutive day in space on Jan. 21, 2016. The pair will land on Tuesday (March 1) after 340 days aboard the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Five thousand four hundred forty. That is how many times NASA astronaut […]