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 Washington (AFP) Oct 9, 2009 
The United States successfully blasted a rocket into the moon on Friday, slamming it into a crater near the lunar south pole in a bid to discover water, US space agency NASA said. No light flash was visible in the thermal images broadcast on NASA television, as the 2.3-tonne rocket impacted the Cabeus crater at 1131 GMT. A second shepherding spacecraft flew through the debris plume, coll ... read more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2009The global ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa contains about twice the liquid water of all the Earth's oceans combined. New research suggests that there may be plenty of oxygen available in that ocean to support life, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated. The chances for life there have been uncertain, because Europa's ocean lies beneath several miles of ice, which separates ... more |
UK, Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record
Summer 2025 was UK's warmest on record: weather agency Spain PM says planning for deadly wildfires 'clearly insufficient' EU chief's plane hit by suspected Russian GPS jamming in Bulgaria Japan, South Korea endure hottest summer on record Japan loosens gun rules as bear attacks rise Japan, South Korea had hottest summer on record in 2025 South Korea records hottest summer, beating 2024 Floods leave women struggling in Pakistan's relief camps Britain's energy grid bets on flywheels to keep the lights on 
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Tirupati, India (SPX) Oct 09, 2009ISRO plans to launch another important micro satellite 'YOUTHSAT' next year with participation of youth from universities in India and abroad, ISRO Chairman, G Madhavan Nair said. Speaking at the 13th convocation of Sri Padmavati Mahila Visvavidyalayam (women's university), he said ISRO was pursuing efforts to inculcate interest in space-related activities among the youth and provide ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 09, 2009NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first rocket in NASA's Constellation Program which will launch explorers on journeys to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond. Engineers from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville ... more 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2009The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F-18 Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built under contract for the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin, is undergoing final preparation for a launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on October 18, 2009. "After several years of building, integrating, upgrading and testing DMSP F-18, our third Block 5D-3 spacecraft, we're eagerly anticipating ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2009NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous and previously unknown infrared ring around Saturn. "This is one supersized ring," says Anne Verbiscer, an astronomer at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. "If you could see the ring in the night sky, it would span the width of two full Moons." Verbiscer is co-author of a paper about the discovery to be published online to ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2009Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036. The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The new data were documented by near-Earth object scientists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 08, 2009NASA is figuring out how to make water from moondust. Sounds like magic? "No magic--" says Ed Ethridge of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center "-- just microwaves. We're showing how microwaves can extract water from moondust by heating it from the inside out." The recent discovery of water on the Moon's surface has inspired researchers like Ethridge to rev up the development of technologies ... more |
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