News Stories relating to "space"

Sending craft out from the earth to explore space is an expensive proposition, and one of the most expensive parts of it is the rocket fuel needed to escape gravity. If we could set up a space station on the moon or on another planet (such as Mars) it would be much easier to escape gravity. It would be especially cost effective if we could...

The next step in space? A manned, reusable Russian-European space ship!

Both ESA (European Space Agency) and Russian technology will be used. This ship was originally designed by the Russians to transport 4 people to the moon. It can make a soft landing on any planet, meaning it can be reused. In BBC News, Paul Rincon quotes Anatoly Zak...

Your next car could come from India and your next vacation could bein space. Futurists predict that outer space will become "the" getaway of this century, and could begin showing up in travel guides by 2010.

Researcher Fred DeMicco says, "In the twenty-first century, space tourism could represent the most significant development...

Not only is China polluting the earth, now it's throwing trash into space as well.

A year ago, China intentionally destroyed its own aging weather spacecraft with an anti-satellite (ASAT) device, creating in the process a lingering cloud of dangerous space junk?the largest amount of orbital debris in five decades of worldwide space...

Some scientists think that our ability to study the universe with space craft and telescopes might actually be destroying it. It's all part of quantum physics. It's also surfer wisdom.

In the November 21st edition of the Telegraph, Roger Highfield explains that our ability to measure the universe may actually shorten its life, because...

A mysterious hexagon-shaped image can be seen in space, floating above the storms that swirl around the north pole on Saturn. Astronomers want to know what it is.

In New Scientist, Maggie Mckee reports that astronomers have long known about the "hurricane-like vortex" that "swirls on Saturn's south pole." Mckee reports that, "A deep,...

NASA says that the weather here on Earth has a surprising connection to space weather in the ionosphere, which is the electrically-charged upper atmosphere. As if emissions from greenhouse gases here on earth weren?t bad enough, satellites have discovered that Researchers discovered that tides of air generated by thunderstorm activity over...

One of the strangest plants on the planet Earth is called "slime mold," a single-celled plant which normally lives on the moist forest floor that when under stress, builds a kind of "space ship" which it then launches away from the danger. We human beings may eventually have to do the same thing.

Usually the cells of Dictyostelium...

Taking a vacation in space is an idea that just won't go away. Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, has branched out into selling a great many things other than books. Now he has plans to develop commercial spacecraft that will launch into orbit from a spaceport in the little town of Van Horn in West Texas.

Andrew Buncombe writes in...

Astronomers have discovered that we live in a kind of seltzer water. All around the earth, bubbles of superhot gas constantly grow larger and then pop. These are particles flowing from the sun that get caught up in the earth's magnetic field.

The bubbles were first discovered in data collected by four spacecraft sent out by the European...

But they won't sneak inside for the ride, they will taken along on purpose. These are fruit flies, which are valued for medical experiments because they reproduce so quickly. Scientists want to see how they are affected by space travel, because they're worried that long periods in space may depress astronauts' immune systems. For long visits to...

A spacewalk may take place today (June 1st) on the ISS (International Space Station) but if it does, Russian space station commander Pavel Vinogradov will NOT hit a golf ball into space, as he had planned to do.

In space.com, Tariq Malik quotes ISS spokesperson Kylie Clem as saying, "We've been told that it's pushed to the next [Russian...

On this weekend's Dreamland William Henry asks NASA scientist Donald Brownlee the question we all want an answer to: is there life somewhere else in the universe? One way to get evidence about this is Project Stardust, which took off from the Earth seven years ago and returned on January 15th, bringing cosmic dust from the universe back with...

A super-massive black hole has been discovered at the center of our galaxy. Black holes absorb everything that comes near them, even light. They are the most massive objects in the universe, and the most destructive.

Steve Connor writes in the Indpendent that black holes are the strangest things in the universe. How can there be a hole...