Space Exploration

World Space Week
This year’s annual commemoration of achievements in space technology will be held the week of October 4-10.

What is Space Debris
Outer space, the void that envelopes our planet and the entire solar system, is not spared of debris. Space debris, also called orbital debris or space junk, refers to objects along the Earth's elliptical path and orbit. Most of these objects are created by humans, and serve no useful purpose...

Mars Pathfinder Mission
In 1997, NASA realized its dream of undertaking low-cost space missions with the success of the Mars Pathfinder mission. Let's take a look at this great achievement in the history of space exploration.

Moon Rovers
Moon rovers or lunar rovers are vehicles, specially designed to operate on the moon's surface. Read on for more information about them.

Chandrayaan Mission - India's First Lunar Exploration
Chandrayaan mission is a historic moment in the space research of India. Read on to know more.

Pros and Cons of Space Exploration
Space exploration invokes the interest of many. The facts about space and the possibility of life in space leave us mystified. What are the pros and cons of space exploration? Read on to find out.

The New Space Race
Helium-3. Maybe you’ve never heard of it, but scientists and politicians are gambling that it’s the answer to the energy crisis. They believe so strongly, they’re willing to go to the moon to get it.

Space Adventures Offers Earthlings the Chance to Be Space Cadets
Virginia-based Space Adventures, the only private company to have successfully launched paying tourists into space, is planning to send another one up as early as October.

Space Exploration: Present and Future Missions
Space exploration has been a fascinating subject for a long time and the many Internet resources focusing on it exemplifies such a notion.

India's Lunar Mission is New Step in Asian Space Race
Televised space launch signals Indian intent to match Japan and China as global power

India's Unmanned Moon Mission May Launch Race for Lunar Landgrab
Officials at Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) remain tight-lipped about possibility of a lunar land grab

Discovery of Space Soot Casts Doubt on Dark Energy Theory
Interstellar soot undermines the theory that a mysterious force is accelerating the expansion of the universe

Kepler's Hunt For Another Planet Earth In Space
Article on the 2009 NASA space mission called Kepler.

Nazi Rocket Scientist's Secret Papers Up for Sale
A once top-secret manuscript by Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist turned leading figure in US space exploration, which is widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern rockets is to go under the hammer in New York today

The Physical Properties Of Space
Based on my interpretations of existing knowledge proven by the physical community leads me to predict that space it's self has physical manipulative properties as well as energetic properties.

Nasa Takes a Giant Leap of Faith
Shortly before four o'clock this afternoon, Florida's notoriously volatile summer weather permitting, the shuttle Discovery will blaze into the skies on a 13-day journey of unprecedented importance to America's future in space exploration.

Europe's Colombus Lab Arrives in Us
Europe's 20-tonne, billion-euro scientific laboratory, seen as a saviour for the much-derided International Space Station project, arrives at Cape Canaveral in Florida to be readied for launch late next year.

Venus Express Prepares for Orbit
With a 50 minute burn of its main engine, a wardrobe-sized probe will tomorrow morning swing into orbit around Venus, marking the beginning of a 486-day study of the planet.

Probe Will Uncover Secrets of the Moon
'Puff of breath' rocket holds key to exploration of deep space. Mankind will return to the Moon this month. A European rocket - with less power than a puff of breath - is set to enter lunar orbit after taking a year to travel there from Earth.

Watch this space
Life seems to exist wherever humans look: far underground, deep below the ocean floor, above the stratospheric clouds, in lakes of soda and pools of acid, in smoking fumaroles and under the surface of the polar ice. So why not on other planets?

What has space exploration ever done for us?
Space flight began with superpower prestige - and the race to put a man on the moon. What began as human adventure delivered technologies which changed the world.

Space Exploration Will Go On, Bush Pledges As Us Mourns
Thousands in tearful tribute to seven astronauts killed in Columbia shuttle disaster.