18

Jan

Photo Story: US Space Force unveils new service utility uniforms

An undated handout photo made available by the United States Space Force (USSF) shows a nametape and camouflage utility uniform pattern for the new US Space Force (issued 18 January…

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16

Jan

Astronomers trace journey of phosphorus to Earth

  A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 15 January 2020 shows the key results from a study that has revealed the interstellar thread of…

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16

Jan

Photo Story: Milky Way in the Hungarian sky

 The Milky Way galaxy is visible in the night sky near Salgotarjan, northern Hungary, on the night of Wednesday 15 January 2020.   Photo: EPA-EFE/Peter Komka

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06

Jan

NASA loses contact with important satellite

A miniature satellite tasked with searching for planets outside the solar system has gone dark, mission operators at Nasa have said. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said they were last…

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06

Jan

Photo story: Wildfires in Australia from space

A satellite photo made available by MAXAR Technologies shows wildfires east of Orbost, Australia, on the 04 January 2020. So far, the country's devastating bushfires caused the death of 24 persons.…

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06

Jan

First British astronaut says aliens exist and could already be on earth

The first British astronaut to go into space has claimed aliens exist and it is possible they are living among us on earth. Speaking to the Observer Magazine, Dr Helen…

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02

Jan

Photo Story: The bright city lights of Long Island, New York City and New Jersey

  A handout photo made available by NASA shows an image taken from the International Space Station (ISS) of the bright city lights of Long Island, New York City and…

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29

Dec

Photo Story: A Celestial Pairing of Moon and Venus

For a few hours Saturday evening, the crescent moon and Venus paired up for a celestial treat. In the photos, the view of the conjunction of the Moon and Venus,…

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26

Dec

Photo Story: Solar eclipse in Asia

A solar eclipse is visible through cloud cover in Mysore, India, 26 December 2019. During the celestial annular solar eclipse, the moon covers the Sun's centre, leaving the Sun's visible rim to…

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23

Dec

Boeing’s capsule lands after incomplete space mission

The Boeing company has cut short the demonstration flight with no crew on board of its new astronaut capsule. The Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but…

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21

Dec

Trump officially launches US military ‘Space Force’

President Donald Trump has officially funded a Pentagon force focused on warfare in space - the US Space Force. It is not intended to put troops into orbit, but will…

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21

Dec

Boeing fails key test to reach space station

Boeing Co’s new astronaut capsule failed after liftoff on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical unmanned test mission in…

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20

Dec

Gas halo observed in space by European Southern Observatory

A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) on 19 December 2019 shows one of the gas halos newly observed with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very…

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18

Dec

European Southern Observatory issues photo of the Milky Way’s central region

A handout photo made available by the European Southern Observatory, ESO, on 16 December 2019, taken with the HAWK-I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in the Chilean Atacama Desert,…

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12

Dec

Indian Space Research Organization puts in orbit Earth Observation satellite

A handout picture provided by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) shows the fully integrated PSLV-C48 successfully launches RISAT-2BR1 taking off from the launch pad at Sriharikota's Satish Dhawan Space…

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12

Dec

NASA unveils Mars 2020 rovers

A handout composite photo made available by NASA shows illustrations of NASA's Curiosity (L) and Mars 2020 (R) rovers (issued 11 December 2019). While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's…

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01

Dec

Italian network for the search of alien life launched

A network for the search of alien life has been created in Italy. The Astrobiological Institute has linked up 14 labs across the country that are looking for alien life.…

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29

Nov

European Space Agency approves record budget, preparing to send Europeans to the moon

European space exploration is getting its biggest financial boost in 25 years. At a conference in Seville, Spain, the 22 member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday…

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28

Nov

NASA space robot tests in Antarctica

A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica in November 2019 to perform a gymnastic feat - driving upside down under sea ice. BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for…

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14

Nov

NASA scientists open untouched Moon rock and soil sample ahead of Artemis missions

An undated handout photo made available by NASA shows Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan preparing to collect samples 73001 and 73002 from the Moon (issued 14 November 2019). NASA scientists…

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06

Nov

Photo Story: Haze smothers Northern India

A handout photo made available by NASA Earth Observatory shows a satellite image of a plume of smoke, that had been emitted a few days earlier, sweeping through Delhi and…

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04

Nov

Voyager 2 spacecraft sends first messages from interstellar space

Twelve billion miles from Earth, there is an elusive boundary that marks the edge of the sun’s realm and the start of interstellar space. When Voyager 2, the longest-running space…

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21

Oct

Photo Story: NASA issues photo of first all-female spacewalk

A handout photo made available by NASA shows Expedition 61 Flight Engineers, NASA spacewalkers Christina Koch (foreground, suit with red stripe) and Jessica Meir (suit with no stripes). The mission…

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19

Oct

Autumn in Malta from above and beyond

Astronaut Luca Parmitano experience at the ISS is well visually documented through regular posts on social media. Today's image represents his home island Sicily in what he calls an autumn…

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18

Oct

Photo Story:  The Moving to Mars Exhibition in London

Photos from the 'Moving to Mars' exhibition at the Design Museum in London, Britain, 17 October 2019. The exhibition features immersive environments, about 200 objects including contributions from NASA, the…

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12

Oct

Alexei Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk, has died

  Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut, who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian…

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29

Sep

World not prepared for the imminent discovery of life on Mars – Nasa chief scientist

The world is not prepared for the discovery of life on another planet even though it may only be a couple of years away, Nasa’s Chief Scientist was reported by…

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25

Sep

The ISS expedition 61/62 gets ready to launch

A member of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 61/62, UAE astronaut Hazza Al Mansouri leaves a hotel during the send-off ceremony before the launch of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft…

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14

Sep

Two asteroids to pass by Earth in a day

NASA has announced that an enormous asteroid is to pass earth Saturday night. The asteroid, known as Asteroid 2000 QW7, is between 300 to 600 meters and will fly by…

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04

Sep

Hurricane Dorian as seen from the International Space Station

Handout photos made available by NASA shows an image of Hurricane Dorian snapped by NASA astronaut Christian Koch from the International Space Station (ISS) during a flyover, 02 September 2019.…

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31

Aug

Photo Story – Staring in the Eye of the Storm

Staring into the eye of the storm, is the title that astronaut Luca Parmitano  gave to a photo he took of Hurricane Dorian from the International Space Station.  Luca Parmitano is…

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27

Aug

Soyuz successfully docks with the ISS

The unmanned Soyuz MS-14, carrying supplies and Fedor, a humanoid robot, has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after the first attempt went awry due to a technical…

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25

Aug

NASA investigating first report of a crime in space

NASA is investigating a claim that an astronaut accessed the bank account of her estranged spouse from the International Space Station, in what may be the first allegation of a…

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24

Aug

Russian built android fails to connect with International Space Station

Fedor, a Russian-built space-faring android, is running late for his rendezvous with the International Space Station (ISS) after the docking procedure failed to execute on Saturday morning. The robot left…

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08

Aug

Photo Story: Malta and Sicily from space

A photo taken from from the International Space Station (ISS) of Malta and Sicily by Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and that he posted on his Facebook page. The Sicilian astronaut…

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01

Aug

Potentially habitable ‘super-Earth’ discovered

Astronomers announced that they had discovered the nearest potentially habitable planet outside our solar system. The newfound exoplanet — a so-called super-Earth named GJ 357 d — lies 31 light-years…

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30

Jul

Photo Story: Tunisia, Libya, Sicily and Malta from Space

NASA’S astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) have taken landscape photography to a whole new level with these stunning photos of our Earth from 250 miles up in space.…

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21

Jul

Lift Off…

Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft with members of the International Space Station (ISS) expedition 60/61, NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano lifts off from the…

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21

Jul

Italian, American and Russian astronauts lifted off for the International Space Station on 50th anniversary since Apollo 11 moon landing

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20

Jul

Elon Musk says SpaceX could beat NASA and land on moon ‘within two years’

  As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary from the historic landing on the moon by the astronauts of the Apollo 11, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of SpaceX, has…

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15

Jul

India space launch delayed by technical problem

  The launch of India's second lunar mission has been halted less than an hour before the scheduled blast-off, due to a technical problem. The countdown stopped 56 minutes before…

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11

Jul

Photo Story: Lost in Space

A handout illustration made available by European Space Agency ESA shows a Vega rocket carrying Earth Explorer Aeolus from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 22 August 2018 (reissued…

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01

Jul

Photo Story: The Milky Way above a clear night sky in Hungary

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27

Jun

Photo Story: ISS passes in front of the Sun

The International Space Station (ISS) flies in front of the Sun as seen from the vicinity of Gyongyos, Hungary, on the 26th June 2019. The flight of ISS in front…

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13

Jun

Scientists find strange mass at moon’s south pole

Researchers have discovered something massive lurking underneath the far side of the moon: a mysterious blob with the mass akin to a pile of metal. The structure, described in a…

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30

May

Russian space tourism firm to make  first flight in returnable capsule

Russia’s CosmoCourse CEO Pavel Pushkin told Russian news agency TASS that the CosmoCourse private space tourism company will send from one to six dummies for the first autonomous flight of…

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24

Apr

First seismic event detected on Mars

  NASA's InSight lander detected its first seismic event on Mars. The seismic event was a faint rumble that was picked up by the probe's sensors on the 128th Martian…

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12

Mar

Photo Story – Space launch preparation at Baikonur Cosmodrom

Tourists watch the installation of the Soyuz booster rocket with Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft being rolled out to the launch pad by train at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 12 March 2019.…

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03

Mar

Dragon capsule successfully docks on ISS

France 24 reported that NASA and SpaceX confirmed the successful docking of SpaceX's new Dragon capsule on the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. The docking began at 1051 GMT,…

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02

Mar

The US closer to putting astronauts into orbit from home soil

CNN reports on the successful launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. This was a demonstration mission with no crew onboard and the launch puts…

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22

Feb

Israel’s first lunar lander leaves earth

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has blasted off from Florida carrying Israel’s first lunar lander on a mission that if successful will make the country only the fourth nation to ever to…

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03

Feb

25 years ago, the first woman piloted the Space Shuttle

25 years ago today, retired Air Force Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman astronaut to pilot a Space Shuttle when the NASA Discovery shuttle blasted off. She also later became the…

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10

Jan

Repeated radio waves from deep space detected in new studies

Physicists have been stunned by the detection of a number of rapidly repeating radio waves coming from deep space, according to two new studies published in Nature. Although scientists have some…

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04

Jan

Hello from the other side of the moon

New photos from China's space agency shows its lunar rover leaving tracks on the far side of the moon, at the start of a historic exploration mission. China successfully landed…

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03

Jan

Thursday Morning Briefing

Good morning, From the far side of the moon to the furthest point ever explored in space, from UK to the US, the Maltese portals and newspapers, these are the…

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03

Jan

Chinese spacecraft becomes first to land on far side of the moon

A Chinese spacecraft has become the first to land on the far side of the moon, according to state media. The lunar explorer Chang'e 4 touched down on Thursday morning…

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07

Sep

A closer look to planet Mars surface

Ever thought how Mars looks like? NASA's own Curiosity tries to address our curiosity as a 360 panorama of its current location on Mars was sent and released today. NASA's…

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