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The December holiday sky show doesn’t stop with the Geminid meteor shower – this year, the moon is also bringing a holiday gift. In the very early morning of December 21, or late night of December 20, depending on your time zone, a total lunar ec…
NASA carried out tests on the external fuel tank of the aging shuttle Discovery on Friday after strange cracks appeared during a countdown last month which delayed its final launch into space.
“So far, so good,” said Allard Beutel, a spokes…
Weather permitting, skygazers in northern America and Europe are in for a treat in the early morning hours of Tuesday, when the first total lunar eclipse in almost three years is poised to turn the Moon pink, coppery or even a blood red.
Coinciding …
Despite its shoestring budget, Japan’s space programme has boldly reached for the stars, pioneering solar-powered galactic travel, exploring a distant asteroid and planning a robot base on the Moon.
The past year has seen Japan’s space agen…
China successfully launched an orbiter into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province at 4:20 a.m. Beijing Time Saturday.
It was the seventh orbiter that China has launched for its independent sate…
Alan Boyle says:Half the world will be able to see a total lunar eclipse this week — but nobody will have the vantage point that Europe’s SMART-1 spacecraft had six years ago when it witnessed a similar event from deep space.Lunar eclipses occur whe…
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tonight that hasn’t happened since the year
1638
and it’s going to capture attention of well over a billion people across the planet and it’s the stuff of folklore throughout history. talk…
A Russian Soyuz space rocket carrying three astronauts on Friday docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia’s mission control said.
“The automatic docking passed off successfully,” said spokesman Valery Lyndin, quoted by the …
The costly launch failure that caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own satellite system was the result of a fuel miscalculation, a commission charged with probing the accident said Friday.
A Proton-M rocket failed to reach its initial orbit…