MIAMI (AFP) - NASA wants astronauts who will return to the moon to take one long step for mankind. The US space agency hopes to build moon bases that can house astronauts for stays of up to six months, with an intricate transportation and power system, Carl Walz, director of NASA’s Advanced Capabilities Division, said Friday.
A huge rise in atmospheric temperatures would stop a planet from losing internal heat, making everything grind to a halt
NASA is giving Earth folk a new view of their home planet in high-definition (HD), as seen through the eyes of astronauts of past shuttle and International Space Station missions. The hour-long special includes crisp views of Earth’s oceans and continents that only astronauts have been privy to while floating in orbit.
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest human-made object ever to orbit the Earth. Last August, the station was visited and resupplied by space shuttle Discovery.
A computer simulation of the collision thought to have formed the moon suggests the Earth originally rotated faster and in the opposite direction
If all languages have a universal structure, we could understand the speech and mathematical ideas of extraterrestrial civilisations
What is life? According to Sohan Jheeta, an astrobiologist from the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, biologists have spent far too long dithering about how to define what a living organism actually is. As a result there are more…
A hard-hitting report says the space agency is playing too safe with technologies and should focus on sending astronauts to Mars
An Italian team claim to have observed dark matter particles in a detector, replicating an earlier finding, but physicists remain sceptical
Claims that a German teen discovered that NASA had underestimated the risk of an asteroid impact by 100 times are false, say scientists
