House committee approves $16.6-billion NASA budget Posted: Thu, Jul 18 7:49 AM ET (1149 GMT) The House Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill Wednesday that would give NASA $16.6 billion in the next fiscal year. The Commerce, Justice, and... Water leak in spacesuit cuts short spacewalk Posted: Wed, Jul 17 6:45 AM ET (1045 GMT) A dangerous buildup of water in an Italian astronaut's spacesuit forced NASA to end a spacewalk outside the International Space Station just over an... Astronomer discovers Neptunian moon in Hubble data Posted: Tue, Jul 16 7:13 AM ET (1113 GMT) A planetary astronomer has found a previously-unknown moon orbiting Neptune in archival images of the distant planet taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Mark... China launches experimental satellite Posted: Tue, Jul 16 6:57 AM ET (1057 GMT) A Long March rocket placed a small experimental satellite into orbit on Monday. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch... Satellite reveals solar system's tail Posted: Sat, Jul 13 10:57 AM ET (1457 GMT) A NASA satellite has revealed the tail of solar wind from the Sun for the first time, showing that it has a structure like a... Astronomers determine color of exoplanet Posted: Fri, Jul 12 8:24 AM ET (1224 GMT) Astronomers for the first time have measured the color of an extrasolar planet, finding that it is a primarily blue world but for reasons very... ESA releases design of Ariane 6 rocket Posted: Thu, Jul 11 8:12 AM ET (1212 GMT) The European space Agency (ESA) released this week the planned design of the Ariane 6 launch vehicle, which will trade reduced performance versus the current... Science team recommends NASA 2020 Mars rover collect samples Posted: Wed, Jul 10 6:52 AM ET (1052 GMT) A team of scientists recommended in a report released Tuesday that NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission collect and cache samples for later return to... Astronauts perform ISS spacewalk Posted: Wed, Jul 10 6:38 AM ET (1038 GMT) American and Italian astronauts spent more than six hours outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, completing a series of maintenance tasks that include... NASA to attempt to fix Kepler this month Posted: Tue, Jul 9 5:40 AM ET (0940 GMT) Engineers are working on long-shot plans to revive one or both failed reaction wheels on the Kepler space telescope that would allow the spacecraft... |
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