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Pioneering mission to far side of moon launched

China launched a rover over the weekend - the first vehicle humanity has ever sent to the dark side of the Moon. China's director of the Chang'e-4 probe missi...

Nasa's Voyager 2 probe reaches interstellar space

However, due to its distance, the lag between sending information and receiving it back on Earth takes approximately 16.5 hours, NASA said . "Voyager has a v...

The sound of Mars

A partial view of the deck of NASA's InSight lander , where it stands on the Martian plains Elysium Planitia. The seismometer of the spacecraft also recorded...

China Launches First-Ever Mission to the Moon's Farside

The mission will lift off atop a Long March 3B rocket. If all goes according to plan, Chang'e 4 will make history's first landing on the lunar far side som...

China launches pioneering mission to far side of moon

Earlier it was reported that Russian Federation intends to deploy a full-scale moon base between 2036 and 2040 to deliver large goods and saturate the lunar pol...

Trump Targets Pair of Obama-era Green Rules to Boost Oil, Coal

The Environmental Protection Agency acted again today to ease rules on the sagging USA coal industry, this time scaling back what would have been a tough contro...

SpaceX launches cargo, but fails to land rocket

The CRS-16 mission launched supplies to the ISS on Wednesday, but the booster headed for the landing pad missed and landed in the water instead, ending SpaceX's...

InSight Lander Sends the Sound of Wind on Mars

Cornell University's Don Banfield told reporters they reminded him of "sitting outside on a windy summer afternoon.in some sense, this is what it would sound ...

Watch SpaceX Launch Supplies to the ISS Astronauts

But the tall portion of the rocket missed its goal of securing an upright landing on the solid ground at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone 1. This launch is schedul...

Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Rate Is Much Higher Compared To Past Centuries

The period of 2004-2013 had more sustained and intense melting than any other 10-year period recorded. At lower heights melt water directly runs off the ice she...

Endangered Hawaiian monk seals face new challenge: eels stuck up their noses

Researchers first spotted a seal with an eel nasal appendage in the summer of 2016, emailing colleagues who initially thought it was a joke. If you were a Ha...

Private Companies to Make Next Moon Landing

NASANASA plans to return to the moon with American companies. The CLPS announcement comes as NASA conducts safety reviews of two of its major private part...

Russia Successfully Launches First Manned Rocket Into Space Since October Failure

The crewmembers of the manned Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft that docked to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday evening has entered the station after pressu...

SpaceX Launches Cargo Ship to Space Station, Misses Rocket Landing

SpaceX quickly cut the live feed from the rocket as it began to spin out of control. The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket on its operational cargo delivery flight to...

NASA spacecraft to land on Bennu asteroid

In January, the probe will get closer to the asteroid - between 1.4 and 1.9 kilometres - before starting to orbit it. The mission - which stands for Origins...

United Nations chief: Climate change is 'most important issue we face'

Naturalist and TV legend Sir David Attenborough has sent a dramatic message about the impact of climate change on the world, insisting there is now a pressing...

Some anxious moments as Canadian David Saint-Jacques successfully blasts off

The spacecraft made four orbits over six hours as it chased down the space station for the docking. The latest batch of astronauts to take up residence on b...

Russia's Soyuz blasts off on first manned mission since October failure

Last month, two astronauts from the USA and Russia were forced to make an emergency landing just two minutes after take-off when their Russian-made Soyuz rocket...

Franklin County EMA assisting Central Illinois with tornado recovery efforts

Meteorologist Dan Smith with the weather service's Lincoln, Illinois , office says crews had confirmed 23 tornado touchdowns across central Illinois by Monda...

United Nations chief Guterres calls for more action to tackle climate change

The comments came at the beginning of a two-week climate conference in Katowice , Poland, where emissaries from almost 200 nations are meeting to determine how...

After 2-Year Journey, NASA Spacecraft Reaches Target Asteroid

After today, OSIRIS-REx will spend almost a year examining Bennu and sending back highly detailed images of its surface. Osiris-Rex is actually a NASA acronym...

3 astronauts blast off to International Space Station

The crew who set off on Monday will spend six-and-a-half months on board the station. During the last launch on October 11, a rocket carrying Russian cosmon...

SpaceX Delays Launch of First Falcon 9 Rocket to Fly Three Times

SpaceX is postponing the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to Monday due to booster checks and weather concerns. The launch is now postponed until at least December...

Manned Soyuz rocket successfully launched into space

David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency gestures as he boards the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft shortly before the launch at the Russian-leased Baikonur ...

Q&A on scientist's bombshell claim of gene-edited babies

The researcher in charge of the project, He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, also published a series of videos explain...

CO2 emissions: emissions of greenhouse gases at record levels

In January 2017, China's energy regulator ordered 11 provinces to stop over 100 coal-fired power projects, with a total installed capacity of more than 100 giga...

‘Flawless’: NASA craft lands on Mars after perilous journey

Then the lander legs will deploy, after which the lander will immediately separate from its shell and touch down on the ground. Mars' atmosphere is thin, just...

Nasa chief criticses Elon Musk's weed-smoking podcast appearance

It's no surprise that Lockheed Martin Space is among the nine CLPS companies. The company has previously worked with NASA to develop Moon commercial cargo trans...

Japanese startup among firms chosen for NASA's moon delivery bid

In Paris, the French space agency CERN said everything seems fine for the moment, and that it is up to Nasa to communicate with the SEIS quake-sensing instrume...

NASA looks to outsource Moon delivery services

Bridenstine told The Atlantic that the audits were done to avoid tragedies similar to those in NASA's history . The relatively small and cheap payloads deliv...

New Zealand rescuers save 6 stranded whales

Other stranding incidents were reported in New Zealand on Saturday and Sunday, however they're not related to the pilot whale tragedy on Rakiura/Stewart Islan...

Camera InSight landed on Mars and sent the first photo

Squeee, first photo from InSight! Now that the dust has settled, NASA can focus on the lander's future as a scientific gold mine that will give Mars an unpreced...

Now that it’s on Mars, here’s what’s next for NASA’s Insight lander

These initial images are grainy because the dust shields haven't been removed from the camera lenses yet. The landing of InSight was also a test for Mars Cub...

First Genome-Edited Babies? - Hit & Run

University professor He Jiankui on Sunday said the DNA of twin girls had been altered to prevent them from contracting HIV , but his claims prompted a fi...

White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report

The climate report , quietly unveiled Friday, warned that natural disasters are worsening in the United States because of global warming. The last few years ...