Tag: space
VIDEO: First American woman in space, Sally Ride dies
Sally Ride changed the world for American women, becoming the first woman to go into space. She endured probing and embarrassing questions about what it would be like to be a woman in space. She died Monday at her home in San Diego....
European consortium planning huge telescope for Chilean desert
In the Atacama Desert, there's a massive complex of highly sophisticated telescopes. But that's not enough. A group of European countries are planning to build a new, massive telescope nearby....
Physicists anxiously await 'God particle' announcement from CERN
Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland are scheduled to make an announcement Wednesday about the elusive "God particle." Researchers at the facility have spent billions of dollars trying to locate the theoretical particle that forms the basis of modern physics....
Once-in-a-century Transit of Venus will show off planet moving across Sun
For the next 105 years, people who want to see the Venus equivalent of a partial solar eclipse will have to wait. But there's one last chance before then. On Tuesday in the Western Hemisphere and Wednesday in the Eastern, Venus will pass in front of the Sun and obscure part of it -- visible from most places on Earth....
Dragon capsule makes successful, historic docking at International Space Station
SpaceX made history on Friday when its Dragon capsule was the first private space vehicle to be launched to and dock with the International Space Station. But that could just be the beginning for this privately owned space vehicle....
SpaceX rocket launch marks the beginning of the private era in space
Tuesday's launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket marks the first commercial flight for a spacecraft bound to the International Space Station, perhaps the opening salvo of a new, private era of space exploration....
Europe preparing for most detailed examination of the sun to date
The European Space Agency this week is expected to begin formal and final preparations to launch the Solar Orbiter space probe, which will be launched toward the sun in about five years, orbiting within the orbit of Mercury. It'll be the closest trip to the sun by any Earth-launched space probe and is expected to provide vast amounts of new data....
New Mali prime minister played key role in 1997 NASA Mars exploration
Cheick Modibo Diarra is Mali's new prime minister, at least on an interim basis, and is key to hopes to restore democracy to what had been a very stable African nation. His roots are in Mali, but his education and work brought him to the United States, where he eventually was a key leader on the Mars Pathfinder mission....
VIDEO: Airlines reroute, ships detour as tensions build ahead of North Korean rocket launch
North Korea will launch a rocket sometime between Thursday and Monday in what it says is a mission to put an agricultural and scientific satellite into orbit. The United States and other nations in the region say the launch is really a cover for a ballistic missile test — in violation of United Nations sanctions....
MIT professor explores planets for signs of life
Professor Sara Seager is certain life has evolved on another planet. Seager, a planetary scientist and astrophysicist at M.I.T., is one of the leaders of the hunt for new planets that demonstrate evidence of life. ...
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