Space : Science World Report

Jan 16, 2013 06:08 PM EST

ESA is Working on Asteroid Defense Research Mission

In a laudable initiative to defend our planet against the substantial threat that rogue asteroids on a collision course pose to us, the European Space Agency (ESA) is presenting a research mission proposal to test defense-satellites and also calls for research ideas to further develop the US-Europea...

Jan 16, 2013 04:24 PM EST

Orion Spaceship Driving Module 'Made in Germany'

Progress on the path towards advanced manned spaceflight: The US and Europe signed off another step to build and launch the Orion spaceship together, which will be able to carry astronauts to the moon and even to Mars. It is high time too since the schedule is tight, NASA plans to launch the Orion c...

Jan 16, 2013 02:23 PM EST

Great New Image From Star Nursery Lupus 3

A brilliant image made by an ESO telescope shows a patch of black cosmic dust where new stars are forming. It is surrounded by a cluster of bright stars that have already emerged from their dusty stellar nursery. The new picture was taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observat...

Jan 15, 2013 05:31 PM EST

NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Labo...

Jan 15, 2013 05:05 PM EST

First Launch in Russia's Lunar Base Project to Start 2015

Russia will start to build a robotic lunar base and plans to launch the first in a series of missions to the moon in 2015. Vladimir Popovkin, chief of Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos, said on Tuesday that Luna-Glob will lift off from the Vostochny space port in Russia's Far East after severa...

Jan 15, 2013 04:31 PM EST

Doomsday Clock Signifies Humanity’s Imminent Demise; The Apocalypse is Nigh

In order to signify humanity's imminent demise, a group of scientists have updated the infamous Doomsday Clock to read five minutes before midnight.

Jan 15, 2013 12:05 PM EST

Star Birth Mystery Solved; New Research Reveals Why

For years, astronomers have wondered why a super-dense gas cloud near our Milky Way galaxy’s core was not “birthing” more stars. Now they have found out why.

Jan 15, 2013 10:59 AM EST

Solar Flare Threat to Increase in 2013; AR1654 Sunspot Grows

A massive sunspot known as AR1654 recently unleashed a M1-class flare into space, only one classification under the most severe X-class.

Jan 14, 2013 11:23 PM EST

Most Beautiful Cradle of Newborn Stars [Hubble Photo]

This cradle of newborn stars, a star cluster known as NGC 602, is located not far from our Milky Way galaxy, near the outskirts of one of the several small satellite galaxies circling our own galaxy. The Small Magellanic Cloud is some 200 thousand light-years away.

Jan 14, 2013 02:18 PM EST

NASA Space Station to Test $17 Million Inflatable Room (Photo)

NASA has awarded a $17.8 million contract to Bigelow Aerospace to deliver an inflatable extension for the space station.

Jan 13, 2013 02:05 AM EST

More planets than stars in our galaxy

How common are Earth-sized planets? A study dealing with this question was officially published on January 11, and independently from that, a graphic from NASA appeared the day after, illustrating another extrapolation from recent data taken by NASA's orbiting Kepler spacecraft. According to the lat...

Jan 11, 2013 09:48 PM EST

Asteroid Apophis will definitely not strike Earth in 2036

Another doomsday option passed away, since refined calculations yielded the result that the Earth-threatening asteroid Apophis won't impact our planet with the force of a multitude of nuclear warheads in 2036. As the asteroid flew by Earth this Wednesday, detailed observations showing the exact proj...