Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, sixth man to walk on moon, dies at 85
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 85, NASA said on Friday. Mitchell, the lunar module pilot on the record-setting Apollo 14 mission, died in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday, the eve of the ...
Thirty years after the space shuttle Challenger exploded during liftoff, a new generation of spaceships continues to build on changes made after NASA's fatal accident. Challenger blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the frigid morning of Jan. 28, 1986. The flight ...
Japan has poured huge sums of money into its space exploration effort, but with very little to show for it.
Amazon founder Bezos' space company launches, lands rocket for second time
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space transportation company, Blue Origin, has successfully launched and landed a suborbital rocket for a second time, a key step in its quest to develop reusable boosters, the company said on Friday. The New Shepard rocket and capsule, which is designed ...
Russia will spend 30 percent less on its space program in the next decade and scale back a slew of projects to save money in the face of tanking oil prices and a falling ruble, a plan presented by the country's space agency showed ...
NASA adds commercial mini-shuttle to space station's supply fleet
NASA hired a third company to fly cargo to the International Space Station, adding an innovative space plane built by Sierra Nevada Corp. to the commercial fleet, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday. Privately owned Sierra Nevada will join incumbents Space Exploration Technologies, or ...
Osaka stargazers appear on cafe rooftop at night
You could argue that the busy, crowded city of Osaka, with its glaring neon lights, is one of the least suitable locations for observing stars. But one cafe owner would disagree. Thirty-year-old Keisuke Yamaguchi says it is possible to see a wide range of stars ...
Private-sector space rocket industry heads toward launch in Japan
The government is to create a framework to promote private-sector investment in the space rocket industry while protecting the public interest, setting rules on technical specifications and on operators' liability in the event of an accident, Kyodo News has learned. Draft bills for the Space ...
Russia to revise space program amid economic troubles, including cuts to moon exploration
Russia is to revise its space program, the national space agency said on Tuesday after a newspaper published a report that billions of dollars of cuts may be on the way, including to ambitious moon exploration plans. Several Russian government ministries were engaged in revising ...
SpaceX just proved that it can send a 14-story rocket booster into space and then land it successfully back on Earth. It is something the company had never managed to do before but is essential if Elon Musk has any hope of dramatically cutting ...
Japan's space agency says its Akatsuki probe has successfully entered into orbit around Venus.
The annual Geminid meteor shower peaked Monday night in the sky over northeastern Japan. Geminid meteors radiate from near stars Castor and Pollux, the brightest in the constellation Gemini. They arise out of tiny pieces of comet debris that enter the Earth's upper atmosphere at some ...
