Washington, Jan 19 (IANS) In what can be termed as an ironic twist of history, US-based Sierra Nevada Corporation’s NASA-contracted Dream Chaser cargo spacecraft has a design rooted in the Soviet Union’s space shuttle of…
City destroyed by meteor shower New York, Jan 17 (IANS) NASA has started a new programme called the Planetary Defence Coordination Office (PDCO) which will coordinate the space agency’s efforts to detect and track near-Earth…
New York, Jan 17 (IANS) NASA is scheduled to launch its new ocean-monitoring satellite — Jason-3 — from Vandenberg air force base in central California on Sunday, the space agency said. The liftoff aboard a…
Washington, Jan 16 (IANS) The US space agency terminated a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) owing to a spacesuit malfunction where a US astronaut reported a small water bubble had formed inside his…
Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) NASA is closer than ever to sending American astronauts to Mars in the 2030s and is empowering US entrepreneurs and innovators to expand the nascent commercial market in low-Earth orbit, the…
Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) US space agency NASA announced on Thursday that it has awarded the second round of commercial contracts to resupply the International Space Station to three private spaceflight companies Orbital ATK, Sierra…
Washington, Jan 14 (IANS) NASA’s first solar-powered spacecraft Juno to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity’s most distant solar-powered emissary. The probe, launched from the Earth in 2011 to study the giant planet…
Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) NASA’s Dawn spacecraft that recently reached its lowest-ever altitude at the dwarf planet Ceres has sent fresh images that show Kupalo Crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres, in a…
New York, Jan 10 (IANS) NASA’s planet-hunting revamped Kepler mission has found more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting other stars. The information about the planets, some of which are very different from what the spacecraft…
New York, Jan 8 (IANS) A team of astronomers have detected a massive, sprawling and churning galaxy cluster that formed only 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang and is 1,000 times more massive than…
San Francisco, Jan 8 (IANS) With the help from NASA space technology, automaker Nissan has successfully test-driven its all-electric, driverless car at NASAs Ames Research Centre in California this week that will help scientists send…
Eta Carinae’s great eruption in the 1840s created the billowing Homunculus Nebula, imaged here by Hubble, and transformed the binary into a unique object in our galaxy. (Photo: NASA) Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) Eta Carinae,…
Washington, Jan 6 (IANS) NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted evidence for powerful blasts produced by a burning giant black hole. This is one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that is currently…
Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) A new green-related technologies developed and refined by NASAs aeronautics researchers during the past six years can help commercial airlines save more than $250 billion dollars. These new technologies, developed under…
Washington, Jan 1 (IANS) Did you get a pair of binoculars or a telescope? If so, you can put them to the test by searching the Eastern sky for a view of a fuzzy comet…
New York, Dec 31 (IANS) Many of us may have played a game where we look at the stars or at the clouds and try to “see” in them different shapes, animals and a lot…
This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the galaxy NGC 6052, located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It would…
Washington, Dec 31 (IANS) The US Postal Service has released a preview of its new 2016 stamps highlighting NASA’s planetary science programme, including the New Horizons’ historic 2015 flyby. The 2016 stamp series also has…
Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) The Obama administration wants NASA to speed up work on sending humans on deep space exploration missions, including Mars, and has instructed the US space agency to spend at least $55…
Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured a massive landslide on Mars, showing a boulder-covered landslide along a canyon wall. The landslide was relatively fresh as many individual boulders stood above the…