Kennedy Space Center’s scenic location on central Florida’s east coast is perfect for launching rockets, but beach erosion is a concern – especially during hurricane season. That’s why NASA is managing a project to renourish the shoreline with beach-quality sand, building up the dune that helps to protect vital spaceport infrastructure.

Russia has launched a criminal investigation over a failed rocket launch to the International Space Station. A US and Russian astronaut were forced to make an emergency landing shortly after the mission got underway, with their Soyuz MS-10 suffered significant engine failures. NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Alexey Ovchinin are alive and in Kazakhstan. The ISS crew is "essentially marooned" according to Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. He told Sky News: "Right now, there are no vehicles on earth that can take people to the space station. None. "They have their own ship - like a lifeboat to be able to come home - but no one can come up and relieve them right now. "So I think they're in for a long stay." SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews and https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB

The 2017 total eclipse caused many of Earth’s creatures to behave in an atypical fashion. According to a recent study, bees weren’t quite themselves, either.

According to Reuters, a Soyuz launch was jettisoned after lift-off. But the crew inside the Soyuz capsule landed safely, despite a mid-air emergency. One of the rocket's boosters failed in flight, forcing the crew to jettison their capsule for an emergency landing. The two-member crew was scheduled for a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station, but instead, an insurance claim is being filed. If an insurance case is filed, then the Russian insurance firm Soglasie will get one of its biggest payouts in decades. But Soglasie said it will first look into the incident to determine liability. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/-7lxnW-KgN8/soyuz-emergency-landing-could-result-in-major-payout-for-insurer-soglasie-interfax-idUSKCN1ML20X http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

A pair of astronauts made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan today after the failure of a Russian booster rocket that was supposed to propel their Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. Former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield explains what happened and how it may impact the international space program. To read more: http://cbc.ca/1.4858238 »»» Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos: http://bit.ly/1RreYWS Connect with CBC News Online: For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage: http://bit.ly/1Z0m6iX Find CBC News on Facebook: http://bit.ly/1WjG36m Follow CBC News on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1sA5P9H For breaking news on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1WjDyks Follow CBC News on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1Z0iE7O Download the CBC News app for iOS: http://apple.co/25mpsUz Download the CBC News app for Android: http://bit.ly/1XxuozZ »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» For more than 75 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.

Reuters reports that Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said on Thursday he hoped the United States would be understanding about a malfunction that occurred during a launch of the “Soyuz” spacecraft. He was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency that manned space flights would be suspended until an investigation into the causes of the malfunction is completed. “Soyuz” made an emergency landing near the city of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhstan after its booster rockets failed in mid-air en route to the International Space Station. It had a Russian cosmonaut and a U.S. astronaut on board. http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~3/n8vIMQg9fc4/russia-hopes-usa-will-be-understanding-about-soyuz-incident-ifax-idUSKCN1ML1BM http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit Tech using http://wochit.com

Ariane 6 will play a key role in an exciting international Moon exploration project. To be continued… 🚀🌙

A booster rocket carrying a Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut on board failed mid-air on its way to the ISS, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing.

Astronauts are to make an emergency landing after their Russian Soyuz rocket malfunctioned on lift-off to the International Space Station. Nasa said there was an "issue with the booster" and the "crew is returning to Earth in a ballistic descent mode". Search and rescue teams are in the air and heading towards the expected touchdown location, Nasa added. The rocket took off from Kazakhstan with Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague on board. Please subscribe HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog

Less than two minutes after the US-Russian crew blasted off on their mission to the ISS, the Russian Soyuz booster rocket failed mid-air. The crew was forced to put their training to the test and make an emergency landing. Expedition 57 was due to transport Roscosmos’ Aleksey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague to the International Space Station in the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9g8k The Russian Soyuz spacecraft made emergency landing in Kazakhstan after its rocket booster malfunctioned. Both crew members on board are alive and unharmed. READ MORE: https://on.rt.com/9g8l RT LIVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFAcqaNzNSc Check out http://rt.com Subscribe to RT! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=RussiaToday Like us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/RTnews Follow us on VK https://vk.com/rt_international Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/RT_com Follow us on Instagram http://instagram.com/rt Follow us on Google+ http://plus.google.com/+RT #RT (Russia Today) is a global #news network broadcasting from Moscow and Washington studios. RT is the first news channel to break the 1 billion YouTube views benchmark.

UPDATE: NASA confirms that the crew is safe and on the ground and rescue crews are on their way. Nick Hague (NASA) and Alexey Ovchinin (Roscosmos) launched to the International Space Station on Oct. 11, 2018. There was a "booster failure" during launch according to the broadcast. Crew is safe and currently on a ballistic re-entry. More information here; https://www.space.com/42097-soyuz-rocket-launch-failure-expedition-57-crew.html Credit: NASA

Scientists using a Western Australian radio telescope say they’ve significantly increased their detections of fast radio bursts.

Virgin Galactic chairman Richard Branson said this week that the first commercial flight for its space tourism service should be coming "in months and not years." A seat on the spacecraft costs a wallet-melting $250,000. The post Space tourism: Virgin Galactic ‘weeks’ away from first test flights in space appeared first on Digital Trends. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/virgin-galactic-weeks-away-from-first-manned-test-flights-in-space/ http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

Sir Richard Branson, Virgin founder discusses the company's venture into space, as well as competition from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Bad news I’m afraid for the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. Project Scientists tweeted earlier today that Hubble has been placed in safe mode as two of it’s critical gyros used for pointing have failed. As sad as it is, it appears that the clock is ticking on this 28 year old masterpiece. Consider supporting Space Fan News: https://patreon.com/DeepAstronomy to ensure you get current space & astronomy news each week! Space Fan News Theme by Stephen Dubois available for download here: http://ancienteyesmusic.com Space Fan News Background Music by Colour the Landscapes: https://colourthelandscapes.bandcamp.com/ Follow DeepAstronomy on Twitter: @DeepAstronomy Like DeepAstronomy on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeepAstronomy/ Like Space Fan News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceFanNews/

There were some CRAZY lights and giant smoke cloud west of LA on October 7th, 2018... what were they?!? Did you see them? Well, luckily, us rocket nerds were patiently waiting for this launch and even knew it'd have this amazing phenomena! Here's my livestream from the event telling you EVERYTHING! https://youtu.be/Pj2a0ZiB3OI Here's the official SpaceX livestream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_C6LQ7mHc Last year, there was a similar launch - https://youtu.be/EGOaHm0s6Es Independent footage from the ground by Jim Mudgett - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5i-IuicbM Thumbnail photos by Tony Qin. Want more info? Here you go! https://everydayastronaut.com/prelaunch-preview-spacex-saocom-1a/ Check out my new podcast!!!! - https://ourludicrousfuture.com Show your support and join our discord channel by becoming a Patron - http://patreon.com/everydayastronaut Everyday Astronaut hats, prints, shirts and more at - https://everydayastronaut.com/shop/ Thinking about ordering a Tesla? Get free unlimited supercharging!! http://ts.la/tim19804 Already order a Model 3 and waiting for delivery? You can use my referral code too (talk to your advisor) tim19804 🙂

SpaceX landed a Falcon 9 rocket at Landing Zone 4 (LZ4) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calfornia shortly after launching a satellite for Argentina on Oct. 7, 2018. - Learn more about the rocket and watch it launch: https://www.space.com/42056-spacex-aces-1st-california-rocket-landing-saocom-1a-launch.html Credit: SpaceX

Japan’s space agency on Friday shared a movie of the MASCOT lander descending onto the asteroid Ryugu.

NASA's Voyager 2 probe may soon hit a major milestone.

NASA is marking two important anniversaries this month. October 1 is the 60th anniversary of the official creation of the agency. And NASA's Launch Service Program was created 20 years ago, in October 1998, with management of the program based at Kennedy Space Center.

Aerospace company Lockheed Martin unveiled a spacecraft concept it says can land humans on the moon once again, responding to NASA's call for more missions to the moon and Mars. Lockheed Martin's lunar lander is able to launch four astronauts and 2,000 pounds of cargo to the moon, and can remain on the moon's surface for up to two weeks before needing to refuel, the company said Wednesday in Germany. Do you like what you see? Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1xa3XAh Like USA TODAY on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/usatoday Follow USA TODAY on Twitter: https://twitter.com/USATODAY

The Hubble and Kepler space telescopes found evidence for what could be a giant moon accompanying a gas-giant planet that orbits the star Kepler-1625, located 8,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The moon may be as big as Neptune and it orbits a planet several times more massive than Jupiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Katrina Jackson Music Credits: "Momentum" by Guillaume Bernard [SACEM]; KTSA Publishing SACEM; Gum Tapes; Killer Tracks Production Music "Continental Drift" by Estelle Treville [SACEM], Pascal Marius [SACEM]; KTSA Publishing SACEM; Gum Tapes; Killer Tracks Production Music Read the NASA press release at https://nasa.gov/press-release/astronomers-find-first-evidence-of-possible-moon-outside-our-solar-system Find the science paper at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/10/eaav1784 Visuals are also available at http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-45 Watch the scientists explain their research - https://youtu.be/eGjgD27Dtpc, https://youtu.be/vlcc2MdYaik This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13087 See more Hubble videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiuUQ9asub3Ta8mqP5LNiOhOygRzue8kN Follow NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASAHubble · Twitter: https://twitter.com/NASAHubble · Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NASAHubble · Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahubble https://www.nasa.gov/hubble --- If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorer Or subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD Podcast: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/... Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard

Prof Kipping is the principal investigator of a project which has been searching for exomoons over recent years and in our latest research paper we've find exciting evidence that the exoplanet Kepler-1625b appears to host a Neptune-sized moon. The embargo on our paper in Science Advances has just lifted and we wanted to give our viewers a Cool Worlds exclusive! In one two videos we've shot, David explains some of the history of our project, how we came to observe this planet and the properties and potential reality of our exomoon candidate. ► Companion Video by Alex Teachey: https://youtu.be/eGjgD27Dtpc ► "Did we find an exomoon?" earlier video on Kepler-1625: https://youtu.be/8V9QHn5oHMs ► "An Update on our Exomoon Candidate" earlier video: https://youtu.be/vDXJAtLLiyw == Referenced papers == ► Teachey, A. & Kipping, D., 2018, "Evidence for an Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b", Science Advances ► Teachey, A., Kipping, D. & Schmitt, A., 2018, "HEK. VI. On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler, and the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I", Astronomical Journal, 155, 36: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08563 ► Nesvorný, D., Kipping, D., Buchhave, L., Bakos, G. Á., Hartman, J. & Schmitt, A., 2012, "Discovery and Characterization of a Non-Transiting Planet Through Transit Timing Variations", Science, 336, 1133: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1208.0942 ► Wakeford, H. R., Sing, D. K., Evans, T., Deming, D., Mandell, A., 2016, "Marginalizing Instrument Systematics in HST WFC3 Transit Light Curves", ApJ, 819, 10 ► Cilibrasi, M. et al., 2018, "Satellites Form Fast & Late: a Population Synthesis for the Galilean Moons", MNRAS, 480, 4355: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.06094 == Previous HEK papers == ► Kipping, D., Schmitt, A., Huang, X., Torres, G., Nesvorný, D., Buchhave, L., Hartman, J. & Bakos, G., 2015, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): V. A Survey of 41 Planetary Candidates for Exomoons", ApJ, 813, 14: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05555 ► Kipping, D., Huang, X., Nesvorny, D., Torres, G., Buchhave, L., Bakos, G. & Schmitt, A., 2014, "The Possible Moon of Kepler-90g is a False Positive", ApJL, 799, L14: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7028 ► Kipping, D., Nesvorný, D., Buchhave, L. A., Hartman, J., Bakos, G. Á. & Schmitt, A. R., 2014, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): IV. A Search for Moons around M-Dwarfs", ApJ, 784, 28: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1210 ► Kipping, D., Forgan, D., Hartman, J., Nesvorny, D., Bakos, G. Á., Schmitt, A., Buchhave, L. A., 2013, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): III. The First Search for an Exomoon around a Habitable-Zone Planet", ApJ, 777, 134: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1530 ► Kipping, D., Hartman, J., Buchhave, L., Schmitt, A., Bakos, G. Á. & Nesvorný, D., 2013, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): II. Analysis of Seven Viable Satellite-Hosting Planet Candidates", ApJ, 770, 101: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1301.1853 ► Kipping, D., Bakos, G. Á., Buchhave, L., Nesvorný, D. & Schmitt, A., 2012, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): I. Description of a New Observational Project", ApJ, 750, 115: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1201.0752 == Exomoon detection papers upon which our method is based == ► Kipping, D., 2011, "LUNA: an algorithm for generating dynamic planet-moon transits", MNRAS, 416, 689: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1105.3499 ► Kipping, D., 2010, "How to weigh a star using a moon", MNRAS, 409, L119: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1010.2492 ► Kipping, D., Fossey, S. & Campanella, G. 2009, "On the detectability of habitable exomoons with Kepler-class photometry", MNRAS, 400, 398: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0907.3909 ► Kipping, D., 2009, "Transit timing effects due to an exomoon II", MNRAS, 396, 1797: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1105.3499 ► Kipping, D., 2009, "Transit timing effects due to an exomoon", MNRAS, 392, 181: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0810.2243 == Other links == ► Sunspot video from Göran Scharmer, Vasco Henriques, Dan Kiselman, Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez: https://youtu.be/yvX0CIIkN1c ► Transiting planet animation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, ESA/Hubble, Dan Gallagher, Michael Lentz, Chris Smith, Scott Wiessinger, Dan Gallagher, Avi Mandell: https://youtu.be/vLh9KWns9gE ► Transmission spectroscopy animation courtesy of exoclimes - https://youtu.be/FUo4N1M1Tag ► Background music by 1) Atlas "Waking Up" 2) Outside the Sky "Hidden Forest" 3) Falls "Runner" 4) Ryan Stubbs "Through Reborn Eyes - Unfiltered". Licensed through SoundStripe.com. ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu

Alex Teachey is the first author of our new paper presenting compelling evidence for an exomoon orbiting Kepler-1625b. The embargo on our paper in Science Advances has just lifted and we wanted to give our viewers a Cool Worlds exclusive! In one two videos we've shot, Alex goes through our new observations of Kepler-1625b using the Hubble Space Telescope and explains why we think the exomoon hypothesis is the most viable hypothesis to explain this new data, yet why we still think it's best to think of this as a candidate rather than a discovery. ► Companion Video by David Kipping: https://youtu.be/vlcc2MdYaik ► "Did we find an exomoon?" earlier video on Kepler-1625: https://youtu.be/8V9QHn5oHMs ► "An Update on our Exomoon Candidate" earlier video: https://youtu.be/vDXJAtLLiyw == Referenced papers == ► Teachey, A. & Kipping, D., 2018, "Evidence for an Exomoon Orbiting Kepler-1625b", Science Advances ► Teachey, A., Kipping, D. & Schmitt, A., 2018, "HEK. VI. On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler, and the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I", Astronomical Journal, 155, 36: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08563 ► Nesvorný, D., Kipping, D., Buchhave, L., Bakos, G. Á., Hartman, J. & Schmitt, A., 2012, "Discovery and Characterization of a Non-Transiting Planet Through Transit Timing Variations", Science, 336, 1133: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1208.0942 ► Wakeford, H. R., Sing, D. K., Evans, T., Deming, D., Mandell, A., 2016, "Marginalizing Instrument Systematics in HST WFC3 Transit Light Curves", ApJ, 819, 10 == Previous papers by the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler project == ► Kipping, D., Schmitt, A., Huang, X., Torres, G., Nesvorný, D., Buchhave, L., Hartman, J. & Bakos, G., 2015, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): V. A Survey of 41 Planetary Candidates for Exomoons", ApJ, 813, 14: http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05555 ► Kipping, D., Huang, X., Nesvorny, D., Torres, G., Buchhave, L., Bakos, G. & Schmitt, A., 2014, "The Possible Moon of Kepler-90g is a False Positive", ApJL, 799, L14: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.7028 ► Kipping, D., Nesvorný, D., Buchhave, L. A., Hartman, J., Bakos, G. Á. & Schmitt, A. R., 2014, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): IV. A Search for Moons around M-Dwarfs", ApJ, 784, 28: http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1210 ► Kipping, D., Forgan, D., Hartman, J., Nesvorny, D., Bakos, G. Á., Schmitt, A., Buchhave, L. A., 2013, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): III. The First Search for an Exomoon around a Habitable-Zone Planet", ApJ, 777, 134: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1530 ► Kipping, D., Hartman, J., Buchhave, L., Schmitt, A., Bakos, G. Á. & Nesvorný, D., 2013, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): II. Analysis of Seven Viable Satellite-Hosting Planet Candidates", ApJ, 770, 101: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1301.1853 ► Kipping, D., Bakos, G. Á., Buchhave, L., Nesvorný, D. & Schmitt, A., 2012, "The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK): I. Description of a New Observational Project", ApJ, 750, 115: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1201.0752 == Exomoon detection papers upon which our method is based == ► Kipping, D., 2011, "LUNA: an algorithm for generating dynamic planet-moon transits", MNRAS, 416, 689: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1105.3499 ► Kipping, D., 2010, "How to weigh a star using a moon", MNRAS, 409, L119: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1010.2492 ► Kipping, D., Fossey, S. & Campanella, G. 2009, "On the detectability of habitable exomoons with Kepler-class photometry", MNRAS, 400, 398: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0907.3909 ► Kipping, D., 2009, "Transit timing effects due to an exomoon II", MNRAS, 396, 1797: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1105.3499 ► Kipping, D., 2009, "Transit timing effects due to an exomoon", MNRAS, 392, 181: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0810.2243 == Other links == ► Sunspot video courtesy of Göran Scharmer, Vasco Henriques, Dan Kiselman, Jaime de la Cruz Rodríguez: https://youtu.be/yvX0CIIkN1c ► Transiting planet animation courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, ESA/Hubble, Dan Gallagher, Michael Lentz, Chris Smith, Scott Wiessinger, Dan Gallagher, Avi Mandell: https://youtu.be/vLh9KWns9gE ► Transmission spectroscopy animation courtesy of exoclimes - https://youtu.be/FUo4N1M1Tag ► Outro music by Thomas Bergersen "Final Frontier": http://www.thomasbergersen.com ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu ::Playlists For Channel:: Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies ::Follow us:: SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe Cool Worlds Lab http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Twitter https://twitter.com/david_kipping Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cool.worlds THANKS FOR WATCHING!!

This short movie shares an impression of some of the scientific highlights from Rosetta's mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, as told through the voices of scientists working with Rosetta's vast dataset, two years after the mission ended. Rosetta launched in 2004 and travelled for ten years to its destination before deploying the lander Philae to the comet's surface. Following the comet along its orbit around the Sun, Rosetta studied the comet's surface changes, its dusty, gassy environment and its interaction with the solar wind. Even though scientific operations concluded in September 2016 with Rosetta's own descent to the comet's surface, analysis of the mission's data will continue for decades. Credits: This is an ESA Web TV production. The video contains artist impressions of the spacecraft (credit: ESA/ATG medialab) and animations/infographics by ESA. Images of the comet are from Rosetta's OSIRIS and NAVCAM cameras, as well as Philae's CIVA camera (credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA – CC BY SA 4.0; ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0; ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA). Ground-based images were provided by Colin Snodgrass/Alan Fitzsimmons/Liverpool Telescope. The plasma visualisation is based on modelling and simulation by Technische Universität Braunschweig and Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, and visualised by Zuse-Institut Berlin. The animation of Philae's flight across the surface is based on data from Philae's ROMAP, RPC-MAG, OSIRIS, ROLIS, CIVA CONSERT, SESAME and MUPUS instrument teams, the Lander Control Centre at DLR and the Science Operation and Navigation Center at CNES. Learn more about #Rosetta: http://bit.ly/RosettaMissionESA ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideos Follow ESA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitter On Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebook On Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagram On Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr ESA is Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out http://www.esa.int/ESA to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions

So-called 'death comet' to do a fly-by around Halloween

Hyabusa2 has captured the highest resolution image of asteroid Ryugu so far.

It is part of the human spirit to explore. During 60 years, we have selected 350 people as astronauts to lead the way. For nearly two decades, humans have been living and working aboard the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit to enable future missions forward to the Moon and on to Mars while also leading discoveries that improve life on Earth. Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 16, and President Eisenhower signed it into law on July 29, 1958. NASA opened for business on Oct. 1, 1958. Our history tells a story of exploration, innovation and discoveries. That story continues in the next 60 years. Learn more: https://www.nasa.gov/60 This video is available for download from NASA's Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-NHQ_2018_0926_NASA%2060_Humans%20in%20Space%20FINAL.html

Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to capture a dramatic image of an enormous tail of hot gas. This tail stretches for more than a million light years behind a group of galaxies that is falling into the depths of an even-larger cluster of galaxies. Discoveries like this help astronomers learn about the environment and conditions under which the Universe's biggest structures evolve. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe held together by gravity. While galaxy clusters can contain hundreds or even thousands of individual galaxies, the lion's share of mass in a galaxy cluster comes from hot gas, which gives off X-rays, and unseen dark matter. How did these cosmic giants get to be so big? Scientists have discovered that one way galaxy clusters grow is by capturing other galaxies with their extraordinarily powerful gravity. Abell 2142 is a galaxy cluster that contains hundreds of galaxies immersed in giant reservoirs of multi-million-degree gas. A wide-field view including Chandra data shows that a much smaller group of galaxies is plummeting toward the center of Abell 2142, adding to the enormous heft of this cluster. Behind this diving galaxy group, astronomers found a remarkable long tail of X-rays that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. This tail formed when hot gas from the group of galaxies falls is stripped off into Abell 2142, much like leaves from a tree in the fall during a strong gust of wind. The shape and length of the tail tells astronomers about certain properties in the system, such as the strength of the magnetic fields that may be wrapping about the tail. Galaxy clusters have been one of Chandra's most compelling targets over its nearly two decades of operations in space. Scientists look forward to studying many more in the years to come.

Japan's rovers have sent back video footage and images from asteroid Ryugu's surface.

Astronomers have gotten closer to identifying an interstellar object's home star.

The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has become the first country to land two rovers on an asteroid. But these rovers, called Rover1A and Rover1B, aren't your ordinary rovers that explore a new world by driving on it. These rovers hop. And they will hop all over asteroid Ryugu for science. ------------------------------------------------------ Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai TI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/ TI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSIDER on Snapchat: https://insder.co/2KJLtVo ------------------------------------------------------ Following is the transcript of the video: Japan has landed two hopping robots onto asteroid Ryugu as part of the Hayabusa2 mission. It's Japan's second mission to an asteroid, where it plans to return some samples of Ryugu to Earth by the early 2020s. So that scientists can study the samples with more sophisticated instruments and hopefuly uncover some of the biggest scientific mysteries of all. Following is a transcript of the video. On September 21, Japan’s space agency made history. It became the first country to land not one, but two rovers onto an asteroid. Already, the unmanned rovers have sent back the first images while on the surface. And no, so far it’s looking like there are no alien cities on its surface. But this mission, called Hayabusa2, could ultimately help solve one of the grandest scientific mysteries of all: Where did life on Earth come from? Scientists have been studying asteroids for years. NASA, for example, landed its N.E.A.R Shoemaker spacecraft on asteroid Eros in 2001. But its Japan’s space agency that is the first to deploy a pair of rovers to explore an asteroid’s surface. Japan launched the Hayabusa2 mission in December, 2014. So, it has already been about 3.5 years in the making. The spacecraft rendezvoused with its target in June 2018. Snapping a series of pictures that revealed the asteroid’s shape. The asteroid of choice was 162173 Ryugu, or Ryugu for short. In Japanese it refers to a magical, underwater Dragon Palace. Now, the asteroid flies through space, around the sun ever 16 months. Conveniently between the orbits of Earth and Mars. Making it an ideal target for the mission. Which, if all goes according to plan, will return a sample of the asteroid to Earth by the early 2020s. As the spacecraft flew closer to the asteroid’s surface, it prepared to deploy its first two unmanned rovers. But these guys aren’t your typical space rover. They’re slightly bigger than the size of a large iPhone. Measuring just 7 by 18 centimeters. And they won’t be driving around on the asteroid’s surface. They’ll be hopping. Yup, you heard that right. Hopping. Japan designed the rovers with a spinning cylinder inside that gives it the power to hop about a few meters at a time. This reduces the risk of getting stuck on the rocky, uneven surface. But it doesn’t come without it’s own risk. Asteroids are relatively small and therefore have a weak gravitational pull. And even by asteroid standards, Ryugu is tiny. It’s less than a kilometer across, making it no larger than a few city blocks. So, if the rovers hop too high, they could potentially go flying off into space. But so far, the mission looks good. The rovers have already achieved their first hop. Now, this may be the first time Japan has landed on an asteroid but it won’t be the last. These two rovers are just the first of four that Japan aims to land on Ryugu. The other two rovers are scheduled to land within the next year. In the process, Japan hopes to collect and return a sample of Ryugu to Earth. So that scientists can study it in more detail, looking for traces of water and organic material. If it turns out that asteroids like Ryugu contain similar material that we see on Earth it would be strong evidence for the idea that life on Earth first came from an asteroids billions of years ago. But this is a mystery that we can only answer if we study asteroids directly.

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's spacecraft successfully landed two tiny rovers on asteroid Ryugu on Sept. 22.

A new study suggests that Mars had the right conditions for underground life in the past.

For its sixth launch of the year, Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites using an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Center (CSG): Horizons 3e, installed as the upper passenger, for Intelsat and its partner SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation; along with Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38, as the lower passenger, for Azercosmos and Intelsat. Since its creation in 1980 as the world's first commercial space transportation company, Arianespace has led the launch services industry with many operational firsts and numerous record-setting missions.

Vijay Shah, Stress and Structural Engineer at Reaction Engines, speaks to David McClelland at New Scientist Live 2018. The SABRE stands for Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine. It's a new class of propulsion and is designed to unlock the future of space access and hypersonic flight. A versatile, hybrid air-breathing rocket engine that can power an aircraft from a standing start to over five times the speed of sound for hypersonic flight in the atmosphere, and over 25 times the speed of sound for space access. With its wide range of operation and scalability, the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE) represents a defining moment in powered flight

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) saw its first light and is now open for science! TESS will make a two-year survey of the entire sky to search for nearby extrasolar planets (or exoplanets) around nearby stars that can be followed-up for further study with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). 🔴 Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 Share this video with a friend: https://youtu.be/ii7i7ACF34g 🔴 From out of town? Translate this video! http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_video?v=ii7i7ACF34g&ref=share 🔴 More telescope videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAnGxL8nxOHR01diTRdgqhUto6Jqxgx9

Japan has successfully launched it's H-IIB rocket on a mission to deliver 6,200 kg of cargo to the International Space Station inside the unmanned HTV-7 spacecraft. Liftoff took place at 18:52 UTC, September 22nd 2018 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The craft will arrive at the ISS on Thursday, September 27th.

Japan's rovers made history by successfully landing on the surface of Ryugu.

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This week in space news, NASA’s ICESat-2 spacecraft begins its three-year mission to measure the changing height of Earth's ice after a spectacular liftoff on Saturday, September 15, from Space Launch Complex-2 at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. By delivering the ICESat-2 spacecraft to its orbital destination, the Delta II rocket finished its 29 years in service with one more success.

According to the country's space agency, Japan is in the process of landing two unmanned rovers on a distant asteroid. They are nearing completion of a task which it has previously described as the equivalent of hitting a 6-centimeter target at 20,000 kilometers away. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced that two vehicles collectively known as MINERVA-II-1, had successfully been deployed from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft. At a press conference on Friday afternoon, JAXA scientists said initial data from the rovers suggested they had made a successful landing. They added they will only be able to confirm on Saturday morning when MINERVA is scheduled to begin data transmission again. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/21/tech/japan-hayabusa-2-touchdown-intl/index.html http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

For the first time ever, scientists using Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy. This neutrino travelled 3.7 billion years at nearly light speed before being detected on Earth -- farther than any other neutrino we know the origin of. High-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that scientists think are created by the most powerful events in the cosmos, like galaxy mergers and material falling onto supermassive black holes. They travel a whisker shy of the speed of light and rarely interact with other matter, so they can travel unimpeded across billions of light-years. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole detected signs of a neutrino striking the Antarctic ice with an energy of about 300 trillion electron volts -- more than 45 times the energy achievable in the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth. This high energy strongly suggested that the neutrino had to be from beyond our solar system. Backtracking the path through IceCube indicated where in the sky the neutrino came from, and automated alerts notified astronomers around the globe to search this region for flares or outbursts that could be associated with the event. Data from Fermi’s Large Area Telescope revealed enhanced gamma-ray emission from a well-known active galaxy at the time the neutrino arrived. This active galaxy is a type called a blazar, where a supermassive black hole with millions to billions of times the Sun’s mass that blasts particle jets outward in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light. Blazars are especially bright and active because one of these jets happens to point almost directly toward Earth. Fermi showed that at the time of the neutrino detection, the blazar TXS 0506+056 was the most active it had been in a decade. The discovery is a giant leap forward in a growing field called multimessenger astronomy, where new cosmic signals like neutrinos and gravitational waves are definitively linked to sources that emit light. Light Years Away

A Japanese billionaire and founder of Zozotown Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private customer to ride around the Moon on the company’s future massive rocket, the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR). The World is One News, WION examines global issues with in-depth analysis. We provide much more than the news of the day. Our aim is to empower people to explore their world. Please keep discussions on this channel clean and respectful and refrain from using racist or sexist slurs as well as personal insults. Subscribe to our channel at https://goo.gl/JfY3NI Check out our website: http://www.wionews.com Connect with us on our social media handles: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WIONews Twitter: https://twitter.com/WIONews Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+WIONews

Elon Musk will reveal the name of SpaceX's first lunar space tourist on Monday night. Business Insider reports that the mission will launch aboard its Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR. SpaceX said in a statement, "SpaceX has signed the world's first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our BFR launch vehicle - an important step toward enabling access for everyday people who dream of traveling to space." SpaceX will stream a live video of the event on YouTube at 9 p.m. eastern time. https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-lunar-mission-passenger-live-stream-youtube-video-2018-9 http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

According to Geek.com. NASA’s Kilopower Project Could Enable Crewed Missions to Moon, Mars. NASA, together with the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power system. The experimental project began in 2015. A test reactor, dubbed KRUSTY (Kilopower Reactor Using Stirling TechnologY), was assessed between November 2017 and March 2018. Small and lightweight, the Kilopower project could enable long-duration crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. https://www.geek.com/news/nasas-kilopower-project-could-enable-crewed-missions-to-moon-mars-1752525/?source http://www.wochit.com This video was produced by YT Wochit Tech using http://wochit.com

For a bit of fun, Bolt had a zero gravity race against French astronaut Jean-Francois Clergy and French designer Octave de Gaulle.

The launch of #PSLV-C42 is scheduled on September 16, 2018 from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, #Sriharikota. This mission is designed to launch two earth observation satellites, #NovaSAR and #S1-4 (together weighing nearly 889 kg) of M/s Surrey Satellite Technologies Limited (SSTL), United Kingdom under commercial arrangement with Antrix Corporation Limited, Department of Space. Both satellites are planned to be launched into a 583 km Sun Synchronous Orbit. NovaSAR is a #S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite intended for forest mapping, land use & ice cover monitoring, flood & disaster monitoring. S1-4 is a high resolution Optical Earth Observation Satellite, used for surveying resources, environment monitoring, urban management and for the disaster monitoring. #ISRO, #PSLV-C42,

Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson all want to send private citizens to space. Their respective companies, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are dedicated to making space travel and space tourism more accessible. Here's how they plan to do it. ------------------------------------------------------ Tech Insider tells you all you need to know about tech: gadgets, how-to's, gaming, science, digital culture, and more. Subscribe to our channel and visit us at: http://www.businessinsider.com/sai TI on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/techinsider TI on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tech_insider/ TI on Twitter: https://twitter.com/techinsider INSIDER on Snapchat: https://insder.co/2KJLtVo ------------------------------------------------------ Following is the transcript of the video: Billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson all want to send private citizens to space. Their respective companies, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are dedicated to making space travel and space tourism more accessible. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator:  SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic are in a modern space race. Similar to when the United States and the Soviet Union competed to get astronauts on the moon, these billionaire-run companies are racing to bring people like you and me to space. But how will they do it? Let's start with Blue Origin, the passion project of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Blue Origin's focus is on commercial space flight, or space tourism. It plans to shoot a booster rocket with an attached passenger capsule to 60 miles above the surface into sub-orbital space. At the top of the rocket's arch, the capsule will detach, and for about four minutes, passengers will experience weightlessness. They'll be allowed to unbuckle their seat belts and float around the cabin, looking out the window at the curvature of the Earth. The capsule will then start to fall back into the atmosphere, and parachutes will deploy to bring it down slowly. The whole trip only lasts about 11 minutes. A ticket on Blue Origin's New Shepard will likely cost more than $200,000. That's over $18,000 a minute. Blue Origin has tested the New Shepard rocket nine times, and the company still hopes to send civilians into space in 2018. Virgin Galactic also aims to make commercial space travel accessible. But the vehicle it's using looks quite different. Virgin Galactic's SS Unity looks more like a plane than a rocket. The ship is made up of the WhiteKnightTwo, a carrier airplane, and SpaceShipTwo, a passenger spaceship. SpaceShipTwo can carry six passengers and two crew members. The passenger ship detaches from the carrier plane about nine miles above the Earth's surface. The ship then fires its rocket engines to blast about 50 miles further until it reaches sub-orbital space. Similar to Blue Origin, passengers will experience four to five minutes of weightlessness before the ship re-enters the atmosphere. The total trip should last about two and a half hours. Virgin Galactic has conducted three rocket-powered test flights of the SS Unity and it hopes to get its first passengers to space by the end of 2018. Founder Richard Branson will be one of the first people to take the trip. And Virgin Galactic has already sold 700 tickets for future flights, costing $250,000 each. Elon Musk's company SpaceX also wants to send people to space. SpaceX's ultimate goal is to establish colonies on other planets. The ship SpaceX intends to send to Mars could hold 100 people, and the ride would be a lot longer than four minutes. But SpaceX also plans to send people to space on their way to other earthly destinations. The Big Falcon Rocket will briefly enter space to make long-distance travel shorter. Traveling by rocket from New York to Tokyo, for example, would only take 37 minutes. And it would take no more than an hour to get anywhere on Earth. Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, and SpaceX are major players in the modern space race, but there are even more companies out there. It's estimated that space tourism could generate $1.6 billion in revenue in the next decade. So no matter which company crosses this finish line first, there will inevitably be another race. After all, space is infinite.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is slated for full commercial launch today PSLV C42 will lift off two British satellites from the Sriharikota launchpad The two UK satellites - Novasar and S1-4 weighing 450 kg each will be the main payload Britain will use these satellites for earth observation Till now, ISRO has launched 237 foreign satellites of 28 countries Subscribe to Times Of India's Youtube channel here: http://goo.gl/WgIatu Also Subscribe to Bombay Times Youtube Channel here: http://goo.gl/AdXcgU Social Media Links: Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/TimesofIndia Twitter : https://twitter.com/timesofindia Google + : https://plus.google.com/u/0/+timesindia/posts