Genesis II – a second prototype inflatable space module was launched on, June 28th, 2007 atop of a Russian Dnepr missile. Genesis II is another milestone in the commercialization of space, and brings us a step closer to realizing the ...

Although the next big space telescope is not scheduled for launch before 2013, NASA scientists and engineers are already planning the launch vehicles that will be able to carry even larger telescopes into high orbit and eventually help humanity create ...

A successful lift-off of the space shuttle Atlantis took place on 23:38:04 UTC on June 8th, 2007 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis took off after a long delay due to damage from a hail storm earlier this ...

Astronomers have discovered a new class of stellar explosions that are larger than a regular nova but not quite as large as a supernova. The researchers speculate the event is the result from the merger of two ordinary stars 49 ...

NASA’s next generation space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, is being displayed at the AAS annual meeting in Seattle, Washington. Despite the fact that the upcoming space telescope isn’t planned for launch until the mid 2013 the model currently ...

NASA recently released details on a unique rocket engine experiment concocted in the Mojave Desert earlier this year. Unlike most of NASA’s existing space rocket engines which use either liquid oxygen and hydrogen or solid chemicals the new engine called ...

A hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova, the death of an extremely massive star in the galaxy NGC 1260, some 240 million light years away from earth, was recently observed by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as ...

Charles Simonyi the head of Microsoft’s application software group became the fifth space tourist after blasting off to space on board the Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft on April 7, 2007. Simonyi, along with two Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, ...

The Hinode space telescope recently released data and images reveals for the first time that the Sun’s magnetic field is much more turbulent and dynamic than previously known. The images and videos of the Sun’s chromosphere (thin layer of solar ...

As NASA is planning the return to the moon in around 2020, plans are on the way to develop a habitat that will allow continues human presence on its surface. The base camp planed by NASA will have to be ...