The undocking of a supply craft from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place Friday after a three-day delay, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 27, 2012 not rated yet 2

Deep within the labyrinth of Monash University's Clayton campus in Melbourne is a metallurgy laboratory so significant in what it is doing that it has attracted some of the biggest companies in the global ...

Technology - Engineering

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP)—The European Space Agency says the undocking of its cargo craft from the International Space Station has been postponed after a communication malfunction during planned separation late Tuesday.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 26, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0

NASA's future plans to explore Mars may end up using astronauts as space messengers.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 26, 2012 4.7 / 5 (6) 6

(Phys.org)—Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Sep 24, 2012 4.6 / 5 (17) 58 |

NOAA's GOES satellite captured Tropical Storm Nadine in the eastern Atlantic, another low pressure area forming in the central Atlantic, and a developing low in the eastern Pacific. NASA's TRMM satellite ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 21, 2012 not rated yet 1

Scientists and forecasters have been analyzing Tropical Storm Nadine using various NASA satellites as NASA's Global Hawk flew over the storm gathering information. Both the Global Hawk and NASA's TRMM satellite ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 20, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Imagine a computer chip that can assemble itself. According to Eric M. Furst, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, engineers and scientists are closer ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Sep 19, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 2 |

(AP)—The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour began a journey to its new life as a museum piece Wednesday, heading west on the last ferry flight of its kind as NASA shuts down its shuttle program.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 19, 2012 not rated yet 0

For six weeks the rover "Curiosity" is now working on Mars. NASA also plans to send humans to Mars within the next 20 years. On the flight and during the stay on Moon or Mars the astronauts have to be protected ...

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Sep 18, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Meteoroids slamming against the atmospheres of alien worlds could add organic gases that make them look inhabited by life even if they are not, researchers say.

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Sep 18, 2012 4 / 5 (2) 2 |

(Phys.org)—A new European meteorological satellite soared into space today, Sept. 17, with five environmental instruments aboard that were developed by the Polar Operational Environmental Satellites (POES) Proje ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 18, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The European meteorological satellite Metop-B was put into orbit Monday by a Russian Soyuz rocket launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the space agency Roskosmos said.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Sep 17, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

Bad weather is delaying the transfer of the shuttle Endeavour from Florida to California where it will be put on show, the US space agency said.

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Sep 17, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—To reduce the cost of cleaning up nuclear waste at Britain's Sellafield nuclear reprocessing facility in Cumbria, workers from the British National Nuclear Laboratory have been harvesting americium-241, ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Sep 14, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 18 |