LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 09/08/10 -- The Canadian Space Agency has delivered a test unit of its contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope, successor of the Hubble Space Telescope, to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The

Today is not a good day for the anxious among us. Two small asteroids -- two in twelve hours -- are passing the earth, both coming within the moon's orbit, one of them whipping by about 49,000 miles away. In... Asteroid - Orbit - Earth -

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- For the first time in history the launch of a Russian spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed on Wednesday due to bad weather conditions. 'The launch of the Progress M-07M spacecraft, which was

MOSCOW, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia has sent three satellites into space early Wednesday, said spokesman for Russian Space Forces Alexei Zolotukhin. A Rokot launch vehicle blasted off from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia at 07:30 a.m. Moscow

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two asteroids will pass within the moon's distance from Earth on Wednesday but neither will hit earth, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Tuesday. The Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson,

GlobGlacier final meeting in Zermatt An ambitious ESA project to establish a global picture of glaciers and ice caps from space has concluded successfully with end-users highlighting its contributions during the final meeting in Zermatt, Switzerland.

Two small asteroids will pass by the Earth Wednesday at distances closer than the moon, U.S. astronomers say. The two asteroids, only recently discovered by astronomers, will not be visible to the naked eye as they cross the Earth's orbit, SPACE.com

U.S. scientists studying planets outside the solar system say they think they could spot volcanoes on the distant worlds by their atmospheric signature. Although astronomers are at least a decade away from being able to capture images of the surface of

Telescopes in space could help pin down the risk of a deadly impact. Eugenie Samuel Reich Some time in the next decade, a US president will probably be presented with this dilemma: is it worth spending US$1 billion to deflect a space rock that may never

Today two asteroids will pass the earth's orbit about 11 hours apart which scientist are calling unprecedented event. The rare event which has two asteroids in close proximity to one in other about 11 hours apart has never been seen before and has

Officials at the European Space Agency announce that their intentions of using satellites to create the most detailed global picture of glaciers and ice caps ever have finally materialized. The ambitious, three-year, 1million GlobGlacier project

Yesterday, ESA and Arianespace signed for the production of the first Vega launcher and Arianespace and the ELV company - the European Launch Vehicle, Avio Group, signed a frame contract for five launch vehicles, with a firm order of one.Antonio Fabrizi,

From September 27 to October 1st, the 61st International Astronautical Congress (IAC) will be held in Prague, for the first time in the last 33 years.The Czech Republic has joined the European Space Agency in 2008 being ESA's newest Member State.The

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MOSCOW. Sept 8 (Interfax-AVN) - Two Cosmos military spacecraft and a Gonets satellite have been put into orbit successfully, Alexei Zolotukhin, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry's Space Forces, told Interfax-AVN on Wednesday. 'After the

A team of eighth-grade students from New Jersey has won first place for its miniature lunar rover made entirely out of LEGO pieces. The competition, called MoonBots, is the mini version of the Google Lunar X Prize, which challenged teams to land an

Two asteroids will zip close by the Earth Wednesday and may be visible in telescopes as they zip between our planet and the orbit of the moon. The asteroids, which will not be visible to the naked eye, were discovered Sunday by astronomers with the

Two asteroids will zip close by the Earth Wednesday and may be visible in telescopes as they zip between our planet and the orbit of the moon. The asteroids, which will not be visible to the naked eye, were discovered Sunday by astronomers with the

Two asteroids are expected to pass by the Earth on Sept 8 at the same distance as the moon from our planet. NASA scientists are available for live satellite interviews Wednesday morning, Sept. 8, to discuss these near-Earth objects. These objects will be

Two small asteroids in unrelated orbits will pass within the moon's distance of the Earth on Wednesday, according to NASA. It's an unusual event that shows the need for closer monitoring of near space for Earth-threatening encounters, a