With the race between Virgin Galactic and XCOR in full throttle, the message at the year’s biggest space conference was that the entire industry is moving fast, with plenty of cash—and a variety of business plans from the smaller players.
Newly discovered extrasolar planet is the smallest known and has smallest host star.
One particularly important task, Kanas explained, will be picking a team of astronauts who can both work and get along with each other on a trip lasting at least two years, spent mostly within the confines of a not-so-big spacecraft sailing through the dark.
NASA scientists have said they have found ice on Mars - a step towards finding evidence of life.
White streaks in the lander’s first scoopful of Martian soil may be water ice - a newly fixed instrument could confirm it
Space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station carrying a massive Japanese laboratory and a replacement pump for the faulty station toilet
Is that ice under the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars? Quite possibly. [PIC]
The alien world is likely made of rock and ice, and is the closest in mass to Earth among the known planets of other stars
NASA scientists have uncovered new details about how plasma from superstorms interact with Earth’s magnetosphere.
