Topic of the Month Exercise using a medicine ball (weighted ball) (November 22) Exercise for preventing falls (November 22) Fall prevention exercise using uneven bars (November 24. All photos taken at the Tsukuba Space Center) Astronaut Takuya Onishi completes rehabilitation program Onishi undergoing rehabilitation (Movie: 2 min., 29 s.) Astronaut Takuya Onishi, who had been […]
The moon up close as seen by Japan’s Kaguya lunar orbiter. Scientists said the probe detected signs of oxygen that came from Earth and was present on the lunar surface. The moon may carry material produced by life from Earth dating back to when plants first filled the planet’s air with oxygen, according to study […]
Space Science Image of the Week: Testing the solar cells of ESA’s exoplanet mission To source
Rapid decrease in the amount of bones and muscles as a result of a long-term rearing for 35 days–A flash report of on-ground analysis of space mice Last Updated: January 30, 2017 Japan Aerospace Exploration AgencyUniversity of TsukubaTokyo Medical and Dental University A mission to rear small animals in the Kibo module successfully completed the […]
Three planets are known to orbit the pulsar PSR B1257+12, as depicted in this artist’s illustration. The two outermost planets, now officially named Poltergeist and Phobetor, are the first confirmed exoplanets; their discovery was announced in January 1992. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC) The Milky Way is littered with a vast diversity of planets: giants that […]
The first Axiom module (lower right, with body-mounted solar panels) would be coupled to the International Space Station (ISS). This module would use one port when docked to the ISS but will provide three additional ports. Work is underway to establish the world’s first private, international commercial space station, a complex that would serve a […]
Mike Taylor captured this image of the Milky Way, green airglow, aurora borealis and the blazing tail of a meteor over Branch Pond, Maine on June 10, 2013. Paul Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University and the chief scientist at COSI Science Center . Sutter is also host of Ask a Spaceman , […]
Watch the replay of the first launch of ESA’s SmallGEO platform at 01:03 GMT on 28 January from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana To source
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Astronauts, from the left, Gus Grissom, Ed White II and Roger Chaffee stand near Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967. To source
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The hatches from NASA’s Apollo 1 command module are revealed in “Ad Astra Per Aspera,” a new exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida dedicated to the memory of the Apollo 1 crew, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. CAPE CANAVERAL — Fifty years ago, after NASA completed its investigation into a fire […]
ESA’s new small telecom platform, SmallGEO, was launched on its first mission at 01:03 GMT on 28 January from Europe’s Spaceport To source