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The article focuses on Japan's successful soft landing on the moon with the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft, despite a glitch in which one of the main engines failed, causing the spacecraft to roll onto its head.

The article reports that SpaceX could lose the race to send the first private space mission to M ars. Maybe. For years, Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, has tal ked of making humanity an interplanetary species by someday sending colonists to Mars. The company is building a giant s pacecraft, Starship, with that goal in mind.

The article reports on the claim by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that the James Webb Space Telescope can also be used to study objects near planet Earth and not just for faraway galaxies.

The article features Gregory L. Robinson and how he successfully revitalized the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) James Webb Space Telescope project as program director.

The article reports that SpaceX is preparing to test its new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, that will join two versions of the Falcon 9 rocket, one for carrying the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration cargo to International Space Station and one for lifting satellites into Earth orbit.

The article reports that National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has announced the location of the crash site of Chandrayaan spaceship, with photographs showing the scar on the moonscape.

The article discusses the identification of seven Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a dwarf star named Trappist-1 located roughly 40 light years away from Earth. Topics include the planets' potential for becoming a habitable ecosystem, the potential of extraterrestrial life and water on the planets, and the planned launch of the James Webb Space Telescope to study the planets' atmospheres.

The article offers information on several aspects associated with an impacts of release of federal budget by the U.S. government under the leadership of the president, Donald Trump on National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) mission to moon.

The first U.S. spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts since the retirement of the space shuttles launched early Saturday. A successful mission could put NASA and the United States on the cusp of a renewed era of human spaceflight. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the snapshots taken on Mars by the NASA's Opportunity rover and mentions crater named Endeavour where the mission team explored Mars.

The article reports on the release of a photograph by the European Space Agency which shows cloud formation in Mars according to scientist Eldar Noe Dobrea of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

The article discusses the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which separated from the booster at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on October 7, 2018.

The article presents information on the emergency landing of the two astronauts Aleksey Ovchinin of Russia and Nick Hague of the U.S. from a rocket in Kazakhstan and mentions the failure of the Russian-built rocket Soyuz capsule after the liftoff.

The article reports that the space agencies of Russia and the U.S. have released a joint statement saying that they have started investigating rumors that an American astronaut has drilled a hole in a Russian spacecraft docked to the International Space Station.

The article discusses the controversy created by the question of Jim Bridenstine, the administrator of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, of whether the agency can sell naming rights to its spacecraft to offset some of its costs despite laws banning such activities.

The article offers information on the spacecraft, New Horizons of U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).

Burton Richter, whose discovery of an unexpected particle revealed a new building block of matter and brought him a share of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, died last Wednesday at Stanford Hospital. He was 87. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article describes the genetic passage of wild petunia, in which the plant flings tiny seeds from a small torpedo-shape fruit through the air.

The article reports that casting light on mystery of a star called Wei that vanished after 14 days spotted by the Korean astronomers.

Marina Ratner, an influential mathematician, professor at UC Berkeley, and Russian Jewish emigre who defied the notion that those in her field do their finest work when they are young, died July 7 at her home in El Cerrito. She was 78. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the plans of the startup Moon Express regarding the launch of a spacecraft on the moon focusing on the design of the space vehicles, the significance of ice, and includes a comment from Robert D. Richards, the chief executive officer of Moon Express.

The article focuses on the tiny blue speck on Mars planet captured by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA's) Curiosity rover.

The top and bottom of Jupiter are pockmarked with a chaotic melange of swirls that are actually immense storms hundreds of miles across. The planet's interior core appears bigger than expected, generating surprisingly strong magnetic fields. Auroral lights shining in Jupiter's polar regions seem to operate in a reverse way to those on Earth. And plumes of ammonia may be rising out of the planet. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on observation of data from the Cassini spacecraft regarding gas plumes generated from the Saturn's moon Enceladus in outer solar system indicates microbial life in the planet; and indication of hydrothermal vents in the planet leads to presence of microbial life.

A dead NASA satellite, intently tracked by people around the world over the last couple of days, finally fell back to Earth -- and it may turn out that no one will ever know when and where it fell. On its final orbital trajectory, the six-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite passed to the south of Australia and then headed to the northeast across the Pacific toward Vancouver, British Columbia. The Air Force's Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, which tracks space debris, predicted re-entry at 12:16 a.m. Eastern time on Saturday over the northeastern Pacific. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MOSCOW -- The announcement on Tuesday by the Russian space agency that it will delay the launching of the next crew to the International Space Station is a concern for NASA, which is relying solely on the Russians for astronaut transportation. The end of the space shuttle program after the last flight in July was meant to usher in a new era where NASA could move on to more ambitious destinations and nimbler, cheaper private companies would take over the job of ferrying people and supplies to the orbiting research station. But a series of recent rocket malfunctions -- including one on Aug. 24 by a Russian ship that was taking supplies to the space station -- has made this approach look tenuous. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The acting director of the National Institutes of Health begged university administrators on Wednesday to avoid even applying for stimulus money unless the universities planned to hire people almost immediately. ''It would be the height of embarrassment,'' the official, Dr. Raynard S. Kington, said, ''if we give these grants and find out that institutions are not spending them to hire people and make purchases and advance the science the way they're designed to do.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the business venture of space projects by Aerospace company Blue Origin SA, founded by Jeff Bezos, the billionaire chief executive of Amazon, to meet space tourism business by partnering with French-based satellite provider Eutelsat SA.

The article reports on the plan of rocket company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. headed by Elon Musk to send a couple of tourists around the moon and back to Earth before the end of 2018.

The article reports on the meteor that struck Nebraska at 1:25 in the morning local time.

An obituary for British physicist and Nobel laureate Peter Mansfield is presented.

The article offers information on several events and finding related to science of March 2016 including the publication of Roland Miller's book "Abandoned in Place" about space, the blooming of wild flowers in Death Valley National Park, and spreading of Zika virus in the U.S.

The article reports that Scott J. Kelly, a U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) astronaut, is set to return after spending nearly a year in space.

The article focuses on a study regarding the health benefits of organic meat and milk, and the role of omega-3 fatty acids in lowering heart disease risk.

The article discusses the Beaver Run exhibit at the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan, New York City in which visitors can reconfigure the tracks by turning knobs, changing the beavers' paths.

The article reports that using the inscriptions on a small clay tablet, professor Mathieu Ossendrijver from Berlin, Germany has discovered the mathematical technique used by Babylonian astronomers to describe the motion of the planet Jupiter across the night sky.

The article presents views of the readers of the periodical on various topics including the effect of Ebola on eyes, warming of Pacific Ocean and discrimination of children having Type 1 diabetes.

The article reports that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars InSight mission will miss its March 2016 launch date due to tiny leaks in a vacuum sphere housing its seismic instrument and mentions the leak was observed during a test at ultra cold temperatures.

The article discusses the retiring of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to Earth after its launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida along with views of Elon Musk, chief executive of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, California, for the same.

The article informs that Curiosity rover treks up a three-mile-high mountain on Mars, and revealed that the rocks are changing which explains the changes in climate and environment of the planet, and mentions the views of project scientist Ashwin R. Vasavada, on founding of sedimentary rocks.

The article focuses on successful landing of New Shepard rocket in November 2015 created by aerospace company Blue Origin and offer views of Blue Origin founder Jeffrey P. Bezos on the flight of the rocket.

The article reports on a scientific study led by researcher Thomas R. Watters of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, which claimed that the tidal forces of the Earth was the leading cause of cracks on the moon's surface.

Pluto is still not a planet, but it does boast an impressive entourage. Astronomers said Wednesday that they had spotted a fifth moon orbiting Pluto, which they already knew had four. The discovery, made with the Hubble Space Telescope, gives Pluto more moons than Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars combined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hours after it was supposed to have made a fiery plunge back to Earth, a wayward NASA satellite was still in orbit, and space experts were still uncertain when exactly it would fall. At 10:50 p.m. Friday, NASA posted an update that said the satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, was expected to re-enter between 11:45 p.m. Friday and 12:45 a.m. Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A defunct, six-ton NASA satellite will plummet out of orbit in about a week -- on Sept. 23, give or take a day. But where it will land nobody knows. The orbit of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite passes over latitudes as far north as Edinburgh and as far south as Cape Town, and the trail of debris will stretch to about 500 miles long. NASA puts the chances that anything would hit anyone at 1 in 3,200 and notes that there are no known cases of injury by falling satellite, not even when its Skylab space station crashed into western Australia in 1979. The falling satellite, about one-tenth the mass of Skylab, was launched in 1991 from the space shuttle Discovery to study the dynamics and chemistry of the upper atmosphere and was decommissioned in 2005 when its fuel ran out and its batteries failed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To push farther out into the solar system -- to the moon and beyond, to asteroids, eventually to Mars -- NASA unveiled plans on Wednesday for a behemoth rocket that would serve as the backbone of its human spaceflight program for decades. The finished rocket would be the most powerful ever to rise from the gravitational bonds of Earth. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

CORRECTION APPENDED Astronauts will abandon the International Space Station, probably in mid-November, if rocket engine problems that doomed a Russian cargo ship last week are not diagnosed and fixed. Even if unoccupied, the space station can be operated by controllers on the ground indefinitely and would not be in immediate danger of falling out of orbit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's really hot, really cold and maybe even a bit icy. It is the planet Mercury, and this month it is ready for its extended close-up. On Wednesday, NASA showed off the first pictures taken by its Mercury Messenger spacecraft since entering the planet's orbit on March 17. The Messenger is to spend at least a year photographing, measuring and studying Mercury. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]