SPACE

China’s unmanned Shenzhou 8 which executed the nation’s first in-space docking has departed from the prototype space lab module Tiangong and is expected to return to Earth today.

The Leonids are known to be a bright annual meteor shower with visible meteorites that can be seen by the naked eye. Although this year would be less visible than previous years because of the moon being in it's third quarter and other factors such as light pollution. The shower itself lasts for weeks but its peak is tonight and tomorrow Nov. 18 from midnight until 3 a.m. If you can't get yourself to stay awake you could get to see a glimpse of the shower before moonrise if you are lucky.

Jupiter’s moon Europa could be a potential habitat for life after a body of liquid water trapped in the moon’s icy surface has been discovered

It will be a fun date night with a spectacular view of the Leonid meteor shower, grazing the night skies starting Thursday night.

Even galaxies experience mid-life crisis. This was found out by a team of Australian astronomers whose research showed that Milky Way and Andromeda are in transition from being young and star-forming into old and stagnant galaxies.

Flying in space can be a reality once you qualify to join NASA’s next class for the Astronaut Candidate Program.

Solar energy if harvested in space could meet global energy needs in as little as 30 years, according to a new study by the International Academy of Astronautics.

China’s Shenzhou-8 has docked with the target orbiter Tiangcong-1 for the second time on Monday, marking the second successful docking between two unmanned spacecraft in orbit.

The Russian Phobos-Grunt mission is not yet considered lost, and space officials have until December to try to reestablish contact, re-program the probe and continue its mission to the Martian moon. After which, it may fall to Earth in January, according to a Russian space official.

Efforts of Russian space officials to salvage the Phobos-Grunt mission have not been successful and in a worst case scenario, the spacecraft could re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere but will not likely hit a populated area.

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Three astronauts who will join the International Space Station crew were launched into orbit at 0415 GMT Momday morning from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and are expected to arrive at the orbiting outpost Wednesday.

Experts have allayed the fears of many believers that a gigantic “killer solar flare” could destroy Earth in 2012, when the solar activity ramps up its standard 11-year cycle, noting that the sun does not have enough energy to send a killer flare 93 million miles to destroy Earth.

Sixty nine young dwarf galaxies brimming with star formation were recently uncovered by NASA’s Hubble Telescope.

Russian space officials are still hopeful that the Phobos-Grunt mission could still reach the Martian moon Phobos, even as it said that if the spacecraft can no longer be salvaged, it could come crashing back to earth in two weeks.

A proposed mission, called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is in the works that would unveil the dark heart of a neutron star. NICER was selected by the NASA for study as a potential Explorer Mission of Opportunity in September this year and thus will receive $250,000 to conduct an 11-month implementation concept study.

The facts are these: the Earth's magnetic field is produced by the planet's spinning solid core that generates the magnetic field, the moon is too small and cold to have that magnetic field generating core. So how did magnetized rocks appear on the surface of the moon if it doesn't have a global magnetic field?

The Russian spacecraft that launched the Phobos-Grunt mission apparently got stuck in Earth orbit after its own thrusters failed to fire and send the spacecraft toward Mars.

They are among the Earth's toughest organisms, but can they survive on a moon of Mars?

Seven out the 50 subjects of a study reported having blurry vision even long after landing. The 50 subjects, who were at around age 50, were sent to the International Space Station, where they stayed for six months.

Russia will launch this Wednesday a risky three-year mission that will land on mysterious Martian moon Phobos and will bring back soil samples back to Earth.

The flyby on Nov. 8 of Asteroid 2005 YU55, which is the size of an aircraft carrier, has generated a lot of excitement particularly among scientists and astronomers.

Arianespace will launch its sixth satellite for Optus by 2013 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. The rocket will launch from Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Paul O'Sullivan, Optus Chief Executive, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, announced in Sydney, Australia.

A massive sunspot, called AR1339 which measure 50,000 miles long has been spotted by NASA's solar observatory and its turning to face Earth in five days time.

China achieved another milestone in its space program with the successful docking of its two spacecrafts on Thursday. The Shenzhou-8 and space lab module Tiangong-1 made the historic docking at 1:36 a.m. local time, according to Wu Ping, spokeswoman for the country's manned space program.

Could Martians be hiding underneath Mars' surface? A new study from NASA released on Wednesday brought up the possibility that life on the planet Mars would have occurred not on the surface of the Red Planet but below in subsurface rocks.

After years of data gathering and mineral-mapping from over 350 locations on the planet Mars, scientists have not proven that life currently exists on the planet. It does not mean, however, that no life form has ever existed on Martian environments with abundant liquid water. In fact, a new NASA study hints that if there had been living creatures and organisms on Mars, then the longest lasting habitats may have been under the red planet's surface.

Scientists are eagerly anticipating to witness a rare cosmic event with the flyby of Asteroid 2005 YU55 on Nov. 8. The huge space rock is expected to safely miss the Earth, but just what if it hits the planet? It can cause earthquakes and tsunamis, a scientist said.

Russian will launch on Nov. 8 spacecraft that will explore Mars, bring back soil samples from its moon ‘Phobos”, and conduct an astrobiology experiment from the Canada-based Planetary Society.