Japan’s SLIM probe lands on moon but can’t generate solar power
Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon but the probe was not generating solar power, its space agency said, during a mission to ...
NASA’s first asteroid sample on track for Sunday parachute landing in Utah
A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge ...
NASA report finds no evidence that UFOs are extraterrestrial
NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on Sept. 14, 2023.
In part to move beyond the stigma often attached to UFOs, where military pilots fear ridicule ...
NASA names chief of UFO research; panel sees no alien evidence
NASA on Thursday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP, while the U.S. space agency’s chief ...
NASA rover reveals new evidence about organic molecules on Mars
Evidence is mounting about what may be a wealth of organic molecules – a potential indicator of life – on Mars, with new findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover suggesting the presence ...
Cypriot woman, who dreams of space, wins place on Nasa programme
Twenty-two-year-old Cypriot Eleni Charitonos is one step closer to realising her dream of becoming an astronaut now she has had her January internship at Nasa approved.
Charitonos, who holds Cypriot ...
Cypriot team wins first prize at Nasa Space Apps challenge
Cyprus has secured one more great success in the space sector, as a Cypriot team won the first international prize for Local Impact in the Nasa International Space Apps Challenge.
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NASA’s Artemis rocket blasts off on test flight to moon
NASA’s towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating the U.S. space agency’s Artemis exploration program 50 ...
South Africa’s new ground station to help NASA track space flights
A new deep-space ground station being built in South Africa’s semi-desert Karoo region will come online by 2025 to help track history-making NASA missions to the moon and beyond, space ...
Cyprus features in Nasa dust investigation map
The eastern Mediterranean, with Cyprus in the middle, is featured in an article describing the functions of Nasa’s new Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument, which launched ...
Russia has not signaled space station withdrawal to NASA, US official says
ussia has not communicated to NASA its intent to withdraw from the International Space Station in 2024, a senior official with the U.S. agency told Reuters, as Russia’s new ...
NASA, Russian space agency sign deal to share space station flights – Roscosmos
NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos have signed a long-sought agreement to integrate flights to the International Space Station, allowing Russian cosmonauts to fly on US-made spacecraft in exchange ...
All-private astronaut team lifts off on landmark launch to space station
A SpaceX rocket ship blasted off on Friday carrying the first all-private astronaut team ever launched to the International Space Station (ISS), a flight hailed by industry executives and NASA ...
SpaceX crew returns from record mission aboard International Space
Four astronauts safely returned on Monday from a record six-month NASA science mission aboard the International Space Station, splashing down with their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in the Gulf of ...
Relativity Space aims for world’s first fleet of 3D-printed rockets
Venture-backed startup Relativity Space, which aims to build the world’s first fleet of 3D-printed rockets, said on Tuesday it has raised $650 million from a raft of new investors including ...
NASA’s Venus missions to probe divergent fate of Earth’s hothouse sister planet
NASA announced plans on Wednesday to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 – its first in decades – to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth’s so-called ...
Faraway NASA probe detects the eerie hum of interstellar space
The classic 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien was advertised with the memorable tagline, ‘In space no can hear you scream.’ It did not say anything about humming.
Instruments aboard NASA’s ...
NASA’s Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet
NASA‘s miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of ...
Mars rover Perseverance takes first spin on surface of red planet
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has taken its first, short drive on the surface of the red planet, two weeks after the robot science lab’s picture-perfect touchdown on the ...
Space’s Crowded Final Frontier (with video)
When Nasa’s Perseverance rover touched down on Mars Thursday night, this astonishing success rightly grabbed attention across the globe.
Yet, it is also worth remembering that the six-wheeled, astrobiology ...
Names of 9,000 Cyprus residents sent to Mars
By Athena Arsalidou
Nine thousand Cypriots took the opportunity to participate in Nasa’s ‘Send Your Name to Mars’ campaign, which invited people around the world to submit their names ...