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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 16, 2009 
Atlantis blasted off Monday carrying vital supplies and spare parts for the International Space Station to extend its life past the 2010 retirement of the aging shuttle fleet. Atlantis launched at 2:28 pm (1928 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center near Florida's Cape Canaveral carrying six astronauts and some 27,000 pounds (12,300 kilos) of gyroscopes, ammonia tanks and other equipment. ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 17, 2009The annual Leonid meteor shower should be reaching its climax late tonight in the U.S., from about 1 a.m. your local time to dawn Tuesday morning November 17th. "Viewing conditions will be excellent, because the Moon won't be lighting the sky this year," says Alan MacRobert, senior editor of Sky and Telescope magazine. "You might see 20 or 30 meteors per hour under ideal dark-sky condition ... more |
G20 billionaires could end world poverty in one year's earnings: Oxfam
Australia set to cede COP31 hosting rights to Turkey COP30 dragged into clash over gender language Brazil's Lula hunts for deal at Amazon climate summit EU states back new delay to anti-deforestation rules Lula lands in Amazon to press for climate deal To combat climate anxiety, COP negotiator recommends meditation Nations 'still far' from deal at UN climate talks: France Nearly a third of women face partner or sexual violence: WHO Belgian climate case pits farmer against TotalEnergies 
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 17, 2009After confirming the presence of water on the lunar surface, India's Chandrayaan-1 mission has, for the first time, discovered mini-magnetosphere that would throw light on the "inventory" of Hydrogen on the moon, a top space scientist said on Friday. SARA (Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyser), an instrument on board the country's first lunar orbiter, has made the discovery, Dr Anil Bhardwaj ... more 
Washington (AFP) Nov 14, 2009The dramatic revelation of a "significant amount" of frozen water found on the moon has been hailed by the jubilent US space agency as heralding a giant leap forward in space exploration. "The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon," NASA said after the startling find was announced Friday, as ecstatic scientists celebrated the landmark revelation. Preliminary data ... more  
Bucharest, Romania (UPI) Nov 13, 2009 Inclement weather postponed Friday's launch of the Helen Rocket -- Romania's first attempt to reach space, authorities said. Officials from the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association were to try again Saturday to launch Helen over the Black Sea with the aid of Romanian Military Marine officials and a balloon, Romanian Hot News reported. The world's largest solar ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 17, 2009A bright line of light appears across the night sky - and popular wisdom would have us believe that any person witnessing a shooting star is entitled to make a wish. With eyes closed, that person must then make their wish, but not tell anyone else what it is. Science also takes an interest in these optical phenomena in the atmosphere, and calls them meteors. These arise whenever minute ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Nov 16, 2009 Monarch and painted lady butterfly larvae rode into space Monday aboard space shuttle Atlantis in an experiment to be monitored by thousands of U.S. students. The University of Colorado at Boulder butterfly larvae educational payload was designed and built by BioServe Space Technologies, a NASA-funded center located in the university's aerospace engineering department. CU-Boulder ... more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 16, 2009The argument that the Moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Researchers have revealed preliminary data from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicating that water exists in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the Moon. "We are ecstatic," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project ... more |
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