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SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) – North Korea’s recent string of missile launches is seen as an attempt to apply pressure on South Korea to change policy, the South Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) official said, on Monday (May 29) after Pyongyang fired a short-range ballistic missile. The Scud-class missile fired by North Korea reached an altitude of 120 kilometers (75 miles), the JCS official told a briefing. He said South Korea’s military was analyzing how […]
by Jung Ha-won Eagle News Service Seoul, South Korea (AFP) — Left-leaning former human rights lawyer Moon Jae-In won South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide Tuesday, sweeping to power and vowing unity after a tumultuous scandal felled the country’s last leader. The ballot was needed after Park Geun-Hye was ousted and indicted for corruption, and took place against a backdrop of high tensions with the nuclear-armed North. Voters were galvanized by anger over […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday. The Martian Moons Exploration project would launch a probe in 2024 destined for Phobos, the largest and closest of two moons circling the Red Planet. Paris and Tokyo signed a preliminary agreement on Monday, and will make a final decision before the […]
by Jean-Louis SANTINI / Maggy DONALDSON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — An ice-encrusted moon orbiting Saturn appears to have the conditions necessary for life, NASA announced Thursday, unveiling new findings made by its unmanned Cassini spacecraft. Cassini has detected hydrogen molecules in vapor plumes emanating from cracks in the surface of Enceladus, a small ocean moon coated in a thick layer of ice, the US space agency said. The plumes have led […]
by Laurence COUSTAL / Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Non-stop vomiting, a puffy face and the constant need to pee: Volunteers for a week-long loop around the Moon may be in for a rough ride even if all goes to plan. In the week that SpaceX announced it would launch two tourists to skirt Earth’s satellite in 2018, experts agreed the health effects would chiefly be minor and short-lived. These […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — SpaceX said Monday two private citizens have paid money to be sent around the moon late next year, in what would mark the furthest humans have ever traveled to deep space. The United States has not sent astronauts to the moon since the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Apollo missions of the 1960s and ’70s. “We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens […]
Reuters — The moon is much older than scientists thought. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have released a study which puts the moon’s creation at roughly 4.51 billion years ago, instead of the previously accepted 4.3 billion years. The finding is critical to understanding the formation of the solar system and gives new insight to the timing of life on Earth. Past studies on the moon’s age were made by studying […]
by Margaret DONALDSON Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. Cernan was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 17 — his third space flight and the last scheduled US manned mission to the moon — in December 1972. “We are saddened by the loss of retired NASA astronaut Gene Cernan, the last […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – The Moon, our planet’s constant companion for some 4.5 billion years, may have been forged by a rash of smaller bodies smashing into an embryonic Earth, researchers said Monday. Such a bombardment birth would explain a major inconsistency in the prevailing hypothesis that the Moon splintered off in a single, giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized celestial body. In such a scenario, scientists expect […]
Retired US astronaut and the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, was recovering after his medical evacuation from Antarctica but is not yet able to return home, his manager Christina Korp said Sunday. “He still has some congestion in his lungs so has been advised not to take the long flight home to the States and to rest in New Zealand while it clears up,” Korp said in a statement. Aldrin, 86, […]
by Mariëtte Le Roux PARIS, France (AFP) — An unusually large and bright Moon will adorn the night sky next Monday — the closest “supermoon” to Earth in 68 years and a chance for dramatic photos and spectacular surf. Weather permitting, the phenomenon should appear at its most impressive at 1352 GMT, when it will be at its fullest just as night falls over Asia, astronomers said. Provided there are no clouds and not too much […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — The same gravitational force that creates high tides when the Moon and Sun align may also play a role in triggering major earthquakes, according to a study released Monday. Better understanding of this mechanism could help predict when known faults are more likely to produce killer quakes, researchers said. “Large earthquakes are more probable during periods of high tidal stress,” the scientists concluded in the peer-reviewed journal Nature […]
