March 9, 2016 Jeff Bezos company planning human test space flights by 2017 Private space travel company Blue Origin expects its first test flights with people in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos said during a tour of the venture's research and development site outside Seattle.
March 7, 2016 ExoMars mission set to land on the red planet later this year The first mission of the joint European-Russian ExoMars program will blast off for the Red Planet next week.
March 7, 2016 Solar eclipse to darken skies over Asia, Pacific Jay M. Pasachoff has taken off to a tiny island in Indonesia made famous by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace while Mike Kentrianakis is a grabbing a coveted seat aboard an Alaska Airlines flight headed to Honolulu.
March 4, 2016 SpaceX rocket misses sea landing after successful satellite launch SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit with the SES-9 communications satellite. We're awaiting word on an attempted first stage landing. The Falcon 9's second stage is in orbit in a 17-minute coast phase ahead of spacecraft separation. Watch the action live in the window below, courtesy of SpaceX.
March 4, 2016 Astronaut Scott Kelly: I could have spent longer in space Just days after ending his after his epic 340-day stint on the International Space Station NASA astronaut Scott Kelly says that he could have stayed in space longer.
March 4, 2016 NASA finds mountain range the size of Alaska on Pluto Scientists with NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft have discovered a mountain range on Pluto that is a bit larger than the state of Alaska and may be covered with methane-infused snow.
March 4, 2016 Astronaut Scott Kelly was 2 inches taller after his epic year in space NASA astronaut Scott Kelly was about 2 inches taller when he returned to Earth after his epic 340-day stint on the International Space Station earlier this week.
March 4, 2016 Scott Kelly: Year in space paves the way for even longer missions Astronaut Scott Kelly says that his epic year in space will help fuel longer-term space missions, paving the way for NASA’s ambitious plan to send humans to Mars.
March 4, 2016 Astronomers spot galaxy a record 13.4 billion light-years from Earth Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away — farther than any previously detected, from a time when the universe was a mere toddler of about 400 million years old.
March 4, 2016 Space shuttle fuel tank set to be displayed at California Science Center ET is coming home.
