Air And Space - Page 570

June 6, 2016

Solar Impulse 2 to continue epic journey, will arrive in New York early Tuesday

Solar Impulse 2 is expected to take off from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania around midnight on the latest leg of its solar-powered journey around the world, arriving at JFK airport in New York around 4 a.m. ET Tuesday.

June 6, 2016

Astronauts go inside BEAM, the space station's newest room

Early this morning, a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut ventured in the International Space Station’s newest room, the expandable BEAM unit, for its inaugural visit.

June 6, 2016

Gorgeous 'twilight zone' photo of Pluto may show cloud for 1st time

A spectacular new image of Pluto shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies.

June 6, 2016

19th-century White House garden aligns with solstice sun

A 19th-century garden just north of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C., was designed so that its statues align with the rising and setting sun on the summer and winter solstices, a physics professor has found

June 6, 2016

Feds reportedly set to approve first private space mission

U.S. officials appear poised to make history by approving the first private space mission to go beyond Earth’s orbit, according to people familiar with the details.

June 3, 2016

Astronaut headed to space station describes what she'll miss most on Earth

In just over three weeks, when a rocket lifts 37-year-old microbiologist Kate Rubins from Kazakhstan up to the International Space Station, it will be her first time in space.

June 3, 2016

Bezos's Blue Origin inks NASA deal for suborbital flights

NASA's program tests how emerging technologies perform to see if they might be useful on current and future missions.

June 3, 2016

Luxembourg sets aside funds for asteroid-mining push

Seeking to lead the way in Europe to promote commercial ventures in space, Luxembourg is making a small but symbolic bet on the idea of mining asteroids.

June 3, 2016

Watch this fireball light up Arizona's night sky

Streaking at a speed of about 40,200 miles per hour, an asteroid zipped across the Arizona sky on Thursday morning, lighting up the night with a fireball, triggering sonic booms, and spurring calls to the police.

June 3, 2016

Surprise! The universe is expanding faster than scientists thought

The universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.