Two Russians and an American joined three colleagues aboard the International Space Station Thursday for a mission that should include receiving the orbiter’s first visit from a private spacecraft.
The Soyuz TMA-04M capsule with Russians…
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According to CEO of Russia’s Almaz-Antei advanced arms makers Dr Vladislav Menshikov, his company continues work, started decades ago in the Soviet Union, to develop powerful airborne lasers capable of shooting down hostile aircraft and incom…
Students’ science experiments are about to make history, launching to space on the first attempt by a U.S. commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.
And like many other…
A small, faint asteroid will be coming into view this week, and lucky skywatchers with the right tools could catch a glimpse of the space rock.
In the first few years of the 19th century, astronomers di…
Observations of next month’s historic Venus transit may eventually help astronomers spot and study alien planets circling faraway stars, one prominent researcher says.
On June 5, Venus will cross the fa…
Stars like our sun can release “superflares,” explosions of up to 10,000 times more energy than the solar flares seen from our sun, researchers say.
However, it looks unlikely that our sun currently has…
Japan will put a commercial satellite into space on Friday, officials said, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of contract launches.
The H-IIA rocket, which was developed by Japan Aerospace Exploration Age…
China seems poised to launch three astronauts into space, in the middle of June, onboard Shenzhou 9, the country’s fourth, and most ambitious manned spaceflight.
Shenzhou 9 is scheduled to rendezvous and complete a manual docking w…
After ten years of development, the new German solar telescope GREGOR will start operating at the Spanish Observatorio del Teide of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias on Tenerife. It is the largest solar telescope in Europe and number t…
ESOThe galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) is pictured in this image, taken with by the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. With a total exposure time of more tha…