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Hunting habitable planets with NASA’s Kepler telescopeNASA’s Kepler telescope has identified 503 new potential planets, some of which may even be habitable. “Some of these new planet candidates are small and… 17/06/2013
Moon travelling across the sunThe moon is pictured travelling across the sun partially blocking its view in this NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory image. Two or three times a year, NASA’s… 14/06/2013
Mars rover Opportunity finds ‘drinkable’ waterA Martian rock analyzed by NASA’s rover Opportunity contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of… 09/06/2013
The gaping ‘hole’ in the SunA comet’s close encounter with the Sun has given scientists a look at a solar region that has never been visited by spacecraft. In 2011, comet Lovejoy… 07/06/2013
Astronaut performs ‘Space Oddity’ on ISS – nocomment A music video shot aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has gone viral, turning an astronaut into an overnight music sensation with his zero-gravity… 13/05/2013
Change of command at International Space Station Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has handed over control of the International Space Station. He is heading back to Earth after completing a five-month visit… 13/05/2013
NASA captures sun burst on camera NASA has recorded a massive sun burst officially described as a coronal mass ejection or CME. The video was taken in extreme ultraviolet light, using… 02/05/2013
Two planets that could possibly support life discovered Two planets that may be able to support some sort of life have been discovered using NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Called Kepler 62e and 62f, the two… 19/04/2013
Obama’s asteroid grab as he shoots for Mars Part of the US’s space budget for next year will be spent on trying to capture an asteroid. Some 17.7 billion dollars, close to 14 billion euros, has been… 12/04/2013
NASA unveils plan to catch asteroid as step to Mars flightPresident Barack Obama wants NASA to start work on finding a small asteroid that could be shifted into an orbit near the moon and used by astronauts as a… 11/04/2013
Hubble telescope spots most distant supernova yetNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the farthest supernova yet found. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow… 08/04/2013
Dark Matter, ‘Let There Be Light’ Shedding light on Dark Matter, the two-billion-euro cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station has physicists at NASA in the US and CERN in Europe… 04/04/2013
Canadian takes charge of ISS Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, has taken charge of the International Space Station. This is only the second time in the outposts 12-year history that… 14/03/2013
Meet Apophis, the asteroid coming to a planet near youThe last potential ‘End of the World’, on December 21, 2012, may have proven something of a non-event but doomsday fans are already looking forward to… 09/01/2013
NASA satellite picture of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East by nightThis NASA Earth Observatory image was made possible by filtering techniques focusing on dim signals such as city lights, gas flares, auroras, wildfires and… 06/12/2012
euronews hangs out with with NASA Chief Software Engineer Benjamin CichyAt the LeWeb 12 conference in Paris, euronews’ Mark Davis hosted a Google+ Hangout with NASA Chief Software Engineer Benjamin Cichy as a guest. Cichy answered… 04/12/2012
The industry of space Most European countries are going through an economic and financial crisis which threatens all sectors of their industries. In this tumultuous context, what’s… 16/11/2012
Atlantis makes its last trip – nocomment Space shuttle Atlantis travels to its new permanent home in Florida in the United-States, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex for permanent public… 03/11/2012
Endeavour heads to retirement – nocomment It was the last trip for space shuttle Endeavour after 25 missions in nine years. Cheered on by enthusiastic crowds, the shuttle made its final ground… 14/10/2012
Final procession for EndeavourSpace shuttle Endeavour makes its way from Westchester square to Randy’s Donuts during its final ground journey through Los Angeles, California. Endeavour… 13/10/2012
SpaceX Dragon capsule launched from Cape CanaveralThe SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off on Sunday from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral. REUTERS / Michael Brown 09/10/2012
Endeavour goes to hollywoodThe SCA, a modified 747 jetliner is flying the space shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science… 20/09/2012
Curiosity deploys hi-tech arm for the first timeThis full-resolution image from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars shows the turret of tools at the end of the rover’s extended robotic arm. (Pic taken August… 22/08/2012
Curiosity’s view of Mount Sharp on MarsAn image taken by NASA’s Mars science rover Curiosity shows its main target, Mount Sharp. The Curiosity team hopes to drive the rover to the mountain to… 07/08/2012
Curiosity touches down on Mars – nocomment The Mars rover Curiosity successfully touched down on the Red Planet. Its mission is to look for evidence that Mars may have once supported life. 06/08/2012
NASA ready for the challenge of landing on Mars Nasa is holding its breath as it prepares for its latest mission to Mars, the landing of its big robot rover ‘Curiosity’. The touchdown, expected sometime… 03/08/2012
Follow NASA’s Curiosity Mars landing liveHas there ever been life on Mars? We may be closer to finding out the answer to that question, with NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet. Its Curiosity… 03/08/2012
First American woman in space Sally Ride dies at 61Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died from pancreatic cancer. She was 61. REUTERS/NASA/Handou 24/07/2012
Boldly going where no private company has gone before In May 25, 2012 the first commercial spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station. A private company achieved something only national agencies… 28/06/2012
Shuttle Discovery’s last flight – nocomment After three decades of space service, NASA’s oldest and most traveled shuttle, Discovery, took off for a final time. The shuttle was heading for the… 18/04/2012
The sounds of space Just what are the sounds of space? ESA astronaut Frank De Winne listened to his favourite bands from Flanders when he was in orbit, while Space Shuttle… 16/02/2012
20,000 light years from the SunA few years ago V838 Monocerotis was seen experiencing a major eruption, making it one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way. This photo taken from the… 04/12/2011
Close Encounters with Asteroids NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has entered orbit around the asteroid Vesta: and the first set of images from the mission have been published. Mark Raymond, the… 05/08/2011
Space shuttle Atlantis makes final landing – nocomment Space shuttle Atlantis has touched down at the Kennedy Space Centre, bringing the curtain down on NASA’s 30-year space shuttle project. 21/07/2011
Juno going to Jupiter Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System, a gaseous giant composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. It was explored by robotic spacecraft during the… 26/05/2011
Earth’s antimatter hunter takes flight Its real name is AMS-2 or Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. Its job? Antimatter hunter. From May 2011 it will fly around 400 km above our heads in… 27/04/2011
Nearly there: The ISS gears up for full output The biggest engineering project ever made by man is flying 400 kilometres overhead. The International Space Station has been 12 years in the making, and… 04/03/2010
Back in the Day: Soviets win space raceApril 12 1961 The Soviet Union won the space race against the USA when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Gagarin was launched into orbit on the… 11/04/2013
Historic dig on MarsCuriosity the Mars Rover which landed on the planet six months ago has set to work and for the first time drilled into the surface of Mars. The powdered… 10/02/2013
Sending Mona Lisa – to the moon!NASA has turned the Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit using technology that… 18/01/2013
Black Beauty meteorite may reveal secrets of Mars climateA meteorite that is billions of years old may provide the link between the warm, wet past and the cold, dry present on the planet Mars. Discovered in… 04/01/2013
Two NASA probes crash-landed on the MoonTwo NASA probes the size of domestic washing machines have been deliberately crashed onto a two kilometre high mountain on the surface of the moon… 18/12/2012
NASA explains why the world won’t endIf you made plans on how to spend the last remainings days of Earth’s existence, forget about them. Humankind is safe. At least, according to US space agency… 13/12/2012
Space shuttle Atlantis begins Florida retirementYou thought the Space Shuttle had been retired? Two of them have already been turned into museum pieces and now the last – Atlantis - has made its final… 02/11/2012
Astronomers find new Earth-sized planet.Astronomers have discovered a new planet outside our Solar System. It orbits one of the Alpha Centauri stars just four light years away. But researchers… 17/10/2012
Endeavour goes where it has never gone beforeThe retired space shuttle Endeavour has gone where it has never gone before. The NASA craft has started a two-day crawl through Los Angeles on Friday where… 13/10/2012
Privately-owned space rocket blasts off in USAn unmanned, privately-owned Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo capsule blasted off from Cape Canaveral in the US at 02:35 CET on Monday. It is on a mission to… 08/10/2012
Endeavour glides home to its final resting placeIt will never be seen gliding across the skies again. Endeavour the youngest in NASA’s shuttle fleet made its final flight from Florida to California passing… 22/09/2012
Private funeral for astronaut Neil ArmstrongThe funeral has been held for the American astronaut Neil Armstrong who died last Saturday. Around 400 of the 82-year-old’s closest family and friends took… 01/09/2012
Interplanetary pop from Mars to EarthUnfortunately the Martians themselves were not able to hear it. But earthlings back at NASA’s base in California were privileged to listen to the first ever… 29/08/2012
Human voice ‘speaks to Earth from Mars’NASA has transmitted back to Earth the sound of the first ever human voice from another planet. The US space agency radioed the recording of its chief to… 28/08/2012
US astronaut Armstrong a hero “of all time”Neil Armstrong, who died on Saturday aged 82, will long be remembered as the first person to walk on the moon. As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, the … 26/08/2012
Death of Neil Armstrong: Americans remember their national heroAmericans have been paying tribute to one of their space heroes following the death of astronaut Neil Armstrong. The 82-year-old was the first man to walk… 26/08/2012
Next NASA mission: discover what’s inside MarsTwo weeks after the successful landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, NASA has said it will send another robot on the same journey in 2016. Its mission… 21/08/2012
Mars rover Curiosity becoming more curiousNASA scientists have been giving more details of the immediate tasks ahead for its Mars rover Curiosity. The robot has now been on the Red Planet for two… 18/08/2012
Curiosity rover starts work on MarsJust hours after successfully landing on Mars and the Curiosity space probe has already started sending images back to NASA. Scientists at the US space… 07/08/2012
Mars Curiosity satisfies NASA scientistsThere was applause, tears of joy and cheers of relief at mission control as NASA’s latest Mars rover, Curiosity, successfully landed on the Red… 06/08/2012
Mars mission: NASA celebrates Curiosity landingThere were scenes of jubilation at NASA mission control in California, as the Mars science rover Curiosity successfully touched down on the Red Planet. The… 06/08/2012
Curiosity touches down on MarsThere have been celebrations at NASA mission control in California, after the first fully-fledged, mobile science laboratory reached Mars. The Curiosity… 06/08/2012
NASA waits nervously for Mars landingNASA’s high-tech robot space probe is due to land on Mars shortly. Curiosity, as its called, is nearing the end of an eight-month 560km odyssey to reach… 06/08/2012
Curiosity nears its targetMonday morning as Europe is waking up scientists at the Jet Propulsion lab in Los Angeles will be holding their breaths to see if the latest mission to Mars… 05/08/2012
City-sized iceberg breaks from Greenland glacierAn iceberg said to be twice the size of Manhattan has broken free from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland. NASA satellite images have helped scientists to… 19/07/2012
Soyuz docks with ISS on Russian-US anniversaryA Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a crew of three has docked with the International Space Station, two days after launching from Kazakhstan. Russia is now… 17/07/2012
NASA’s Mars rover readies for a rough landingNASA has been giving details about its latest mission to Mars. Its new rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is scheduled to land on August 6, but a successful… 17/07/2012
Solar Flare to cause storms when it hits Earth on SaturdayThe electric blue clouds that rippled across Northern Europe yesterday, July 12, were described as “water in the sky” by a spectator from Poland, according to… 13/07/2012
Solar storm hurtles towards EarthA huge solar flare has erupted on the surface of the sun and it appears that a solar storm is now heading for Earth. The flare sent a wave of plasma toward… 13/07/2012
NASA ‘detects ice’ in moon craterUniversity and NASA scientists examining the moon claim to have detected small quantities of ice in a crater at its south pole. They found the floor of the… 23/06/2012
Enterprise ferried down New York Hudson to floating museumA former WWII aircraft carrier has found a more futuristic purpose as the new home of the space shuttle Enterprise. Crowds gathered to cheer and wave as s… 07/06/2012
Galactic merger will end the universe as we know itIf you believe in the Mayan prediction that 2012 is the end of the world, stop reading and jog on. If you’re more science-minded, you’ll see we may have… 01/06/2012
The sky’s the limit for commercial spaceflightsThe future of commercial spaceflights is bright – according to one of the main figures behind the first privately developed ship to travel to the… 01/06/2012
Soyuz with US-Russian crew blasts off for ISSMore than a month after its original launch date, a Soyuz spaceship with a Russian and American crew has blasted off for the International Space Station. It… 15/05/2012
Shuttle makes final flight to New YorkThe Enterprise took to the skies for the last time over America today as the retired space shuttle was carried from Dulles airport in Virginia to New York… 27/04/2012
Discovery officially handed over to new homeThe retired space shuttle Discovery has been officially handed over to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in the US, during a ceremony attended by… 20/04/2012
Space shuttle Discovery makes final voyage before retirementThe space shuttle Discovery, one of three surviving shuttles, dispensed with a rocket propelled launch for its final voyage on Tuesday and piggy-backed a ride… 17/04/2012
Northern Lights shine above Northern AmericaNASA has released this footage of The Northern Lights above the US, Canada and Mexico. The images were filmed by astronauts aboard the International Space… 11/02/2012
Solar storm could cause Northern Lights delightThe strongest solar storm since 2005 is bombarding our planet with high-energy particles. This can cause problems for satellites and aviation – American… 25/01/2012
Three new planets spottedIn brief: astronomers have discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun. The smallest is about the size of Mars. All… 12/01/2012
Journey to the centre of the moonThe US space agency NASA has succeeded in sending twin satellites into orbit around the moon. They are hoping the new spacecrafts – known as grails – will… 02/01/2012
Time for the close-up – Dawn images of Vesta asteroidNASA’s Dawn spacecraft has sent the closest images it will take of the Vesta asteroid. The pictures were snapped less than 210 kilometres from the… 22/12/2011
Earth-like planet found 600 light years awayNASA scientists have discovered an Earth-like planet 600 light years away. It is thought to be about 2.4 times the size of Earth. The so-called “Kepler 22-b”… 06/12/2011
Life on Mars probe launchedA rocket has blasted-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying a new space probe on a nine-month journey to Mars. ‘Curiosity’, as it has been nicknamed… 27/11/2011
Life on MarsSpace agency NASA is launching a nuclear-powered probe on a nine-month journey to Mars in a bid to learn if there is or ever was life on the planet. The… 26/11/2011
Curiosity robot headed for MarsNASA scientists claim the search for life on Mars will take a step forward with the launch of its newest rover on Saturday. The vehicle named “Curiosity” is… 23/11/2011
Soyuz lands safely in KazakhstanMike Fossum, Sergei Volkov and Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa have safely returned to the frozen landscape of Kazakhstan after months in orbit. The three were… 22/11/2011
Asteroid pays flyby visit to EarthPlanet Earth has had a close encounter with a passing asteroid. The rock like object, the size of an aircraft carrier zoomed passed between earth and the moon… 09/11/2011
Defunct satellite set to hit earth in hoursNasa officials said on Saturday the defunct satellite which is due to come crashing down to earth would land in the next few hours. The satellite was… 24/09/2011
Deadline for satellite re-entry loomsScientists said on Thursday they won’t know until about two hours before a defunct NASA satellite re-enters the earth’s atmosphere, where it will likely… 23/09/2011
Double dawn: the planet with two sunsIt sounds like something from science-fiction but it is actually space fact. Star-gazers at NASA have discovered a planet with two suns. Researchers made the… 16/09/2011
Rocket blasts off on “moon mapping” missionAn unmanned US rocket has blasted off from Cape Canaveral as part of mission to find out what lies beneath the surface of the moon. Scientists hope to map the… 10/09/2011
NASA discovers supermassive black holesNASA astronomers have discovered the closest pair of supermassive black holes ever seen to Earth. With a mass millions of times that of the sun, they are… 03/09/2011
Aerospace foundations tremble after Progress crashAerospace industries around the world are going through a shake-up after last week’s loss of the Russian cargo vessel Progress. The resupplying of the… 29/08/2011
Juno sets off for JupiterA robotic probe named June has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a five-year mission to Jupiter. NASA hopes it will be able to learn more about the… 06/08/2011
Liquid water found on MarsNASA scientists believe they may have found evidence of water flowing on Mars. If so, it increases the chance that there could be life in some form on the… 05/08/2011
Back in the Day: NASA joins the space raceJuly 29, 1958. The US Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act which establishes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The… 28/07/2011
Atlantis touchdown marks end of space shuttle adventureAs Atlantis touched down at the Kennedy Space Centre, it marked the end of NASA’s three decade space shuttle programme. The spacecraft made a perfect… 21/07/2011
Space shuttle Atlantis makes final touchdownSpace shuttle Atlantis has touched down at the Kennedy Space Centre, bringing the curtain down on NASA’s 30-year space shuttle project. The orbiter and its… 21/07/2011
Last shuttle spacewalkTwo American astronauts have completed the last-ever spacewalk of the shuttle era. The NASA shuttle Atlantis docked at the International Space Station on… 12/07/2011
ISS welcomes final shuttle missionThe Atlantis has docked at the International Space Station, delivering a last batch of supplies on the final space shuttle mission. There was a warm welcome… 10/07/2011
Clouds threaten final shuttle launchAnother chapter in space history could be written today as Space Shuttle Atlantis prepares for what will be the final flight in the 30-year shuttle… 08/07/2011
NASA captures pictures of Saturn’s giant stormNASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured unprecedented images of a giant thunderstorm raging on the planet Saturn. Said to be eight times bigger than the Earth… 07/07/2011
