The first privately-owned spacecraft has been launched into the sky, and New Zealand scientists are tasked with tracking its journey and determining where it is likely to end up when it travels back to Earth.

Director of SETI Institute will focus on fundraising instead of searching for signs of life in space

NMSU Astronomy graduate students and museum staff will have solar telescopes set up in the southwest parking lot of the Mesilla Valley Mall in Las Cruces from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday for viewing the partial solar eclipse. There will be activities and free handouts at the event. Solar eclipse glasses will be on sale at $1 each or four for $3. Additional local viewing details Sunrises and sunsets often ...

THOSE who failed to see the annular solar eclipse yesterday morning need not despair as there will be another eclipse this year and next year. Dario dela Cruz of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical Services Administration (Pagasa) astronomy department in Manila told Sun.Star Cebu in a phone interview...

AUT is playing an important role in monitoring the first private space flight to the International Space Station.

Today’s the eclipse! I’m excited, though our weather here in Boulder has been fairly touch-and-go the past few weeks. I’m hoping for clear skies so I can see it; I got my eclipse glasses in the mail yesterday, so I’m all set. Locally, CU Boulder is holding a viewing in the football stadium ! That’s a pretty nifty idea. As a reminder, the eclipse begins at 20:56 UTC (13:56 Pacific US time) on May ...

A small team of Kiwi scientists has landed a stellar role in the world's first private flight to the International Space Station.As SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space craft blasted off from Cape Canaveral last night - making...

An Auckland university will track a rocket on a mission designed to be the first commercial flight into space.

MORRIS — An unusual summer camp has cropped up for kids in the Morris area. It’s held on a working organic farm and teaches about growing and selling crops and about ecosystems and nature. It also teaches about electricity, art, creative writing, cartography, public speaking, building math, rockets and astronomy. A former Joliet Central (and Plainfield South) science teacher, Dave Nusbaumer ...

As millions of skywatchers gazed up at a dazzling solar eclipse on Sunday, one astronaut was amazed by looking down at the eclipse's shadow moving across the Earth.

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