Space News
India Readies Chandrayaan-2 Moon Mission for July Launch
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 13:00
India is now gearing up for the July launch of Chandrayaan-2, a robotic lunar orbiter/lander/rover combo that is slated to touch down at a predetermined site close to the lunar south pole.
NASA to Land in Mars, Pennsylvania to Celebrate Red Planet with STEAM
NASA Breaking news - 23 May 2019 16:30The First Trailer for 'Star Trek: Picard' Is Here
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 22:45
Hot on the heels of the logo and title reveal comes our first look at the new "Star Trek: Picard" spin-off series, focusing on Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart.
Of strawberry jelly and earthquakes: Space station investigation studies colloids
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 22:09
If you think your strawberry jelly is unrelated to earthquakes, think again.
NASA unveils schedule for 'Artemis' 2024 Moon mission
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 22:02
NASA on Thursday unveiled the calendar for the "Artemis" program that will return astronauts to the Moon for the first time in half a century, including eight scheduled launches and a mini-station in lunar orbit by 2024.
The Collision that Created the Moon Might Have Also Brought Water to the Early Earth
Universe Today - 23 May 2019 21:54
Scientists at the University of Munster have discovered that Earth got its water from a collision with Theia. Theia was the ancient body that collided with Earth and formed the Moon. Their discovery shows that Earth’s ...
NASA selects Maxar to build first Gateway element
Space News - 23 May 2019 20:47
NASA has selected Maxar Technologies to develop the first element of its lunar Gateway, the Power and Propulsion Element, for launch in late 2022. SpaceNews.com
'Terminator: Dark Fate' First Teaser Trailer Has Arrived
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 20:29
Cinema's favorite silver-suited, metal-booted cybernetic killing machine is back.
NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, Propulsion
NASA Breaking news - 23 May 2019 20:00A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth's water
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 18:50
Where did the Earth's water come from? Although comets, with their icy nuclei, seem like ideal candidates, analyses have so far shown that their water differs from that in our oceans. Now, however, an international team,...
Scientists discover one of the mechanisms of water formation on the moon
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 18:48
The results of a recent study conducted by the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the agency's automatic interplanetary station, show the existence of 'permafrost' near the poles of the moon with a relatively high conten...
China Appears to Have Suffered a Long March Launch Failure
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 18:00
A planned launch of a remote sensing satellite from Taiyuan in north China may have ended in failure, with the lack of an official statement suggesting an issue with the mission.
Could Microbes Live in Martian Dust? Mission Designers Are Thinking Ahead for Red Planet Crews
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 18:00
Could Mars have little microbes living in its dust?
€17 million Fund Backs 170 Breakthrough Concepts in Imaging and Sensing
PTTU - 23 May 2019 17:00
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Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's Oceans
PTTU - 23 May 2019 17:00
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SpaceX Launching 60 'Starlink' Internet Satellites Tonight: Watch Live
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 16:30
SpaceX plans to launch the first 60 members of its Starlink internet-satellite constellation tonight (May 23), and you can watch the liftoff live.
Lunar gold rush is about to start--and we could exhaust the solar system in less than 500 years
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 16:10
The US president, Donald Trump, has stuck to his plan to send humans back to the moon in the next five years, recently giving the project a US$1.6 billion shot in the arm. Whether he succeeds or not, the first successful...
Chemistry of stars sheds new light on the Gaia Sausage
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 16:08
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a major collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago.
A unique experiment to explore black holes
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 16:06
What happens when two supermassive black holes collide? Combining the observing power of two future ESA missions, Athena and LISA, would allow us to study these cosmic clashes and their mysterious aftermath for the first...
NASA Has a Full Plate of Lunar Missions Before Astronauts Can Return to Moon
SPACE.com - 23 May 2019 16:00
What will it take for NASA to put humans back on the moon? Aside from a still-undetermined sum of cash, the agency will need to launch about 37 moon missions between now and 2028.
Help NASA asteroid mission choose sample site using PSI's CosmoQuest
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 15:50
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been at Bennu since Dec. 3, 2018, mapping the asteroid in detail, while the mission team searches for a sample collection site that is safe, conducive to sample collection, and worthy of clo...
Study investigates potential risk of Taurid meteor swarm
Phys.org - 23 May 2019 15:42
A new study from Western University posits proof to the possibility that an oncoming swarm of meteors--likened to the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot by some extraterrestrial experts--may indeed pose an existential risk fo...