NASA Plans Life-Searching Mission on Jupiter’s Satellite Europa
Jupiter's satellite Europa is definitely one of the most interesting places in our solar system - despite being really far ...
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Say Cheese: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Takes Its 100 millionth photo!
It's a remarkable day for NASA and space observations: the Solar Dynamics Observatory has taken its 100,000,000th photo! The mission, ...
Meteorites Not Responsible For Building Solar System, Study Finds
For decades, astronomers have believed that meteorites are the building blocks of our solar system - the lego blocks for ...
Experimental flow of water along Colorado River leads to Green Rebirth
In March 2014, the US and Mexican governments decided to release a flow of water down the Colorado River, in ...
Now’s your chance to name craters on Mercury
If you've always wanted to choose the name of stuff from outer space but never got the chance... now's your ...
Mars kept liquid water on its surface for millions of years
New evidence beamed back by the Curiosity rover and analyzed by NASA JPL scientists suggests that the Gale Crater on Mars had ...
New Horizon probe back online after 9 year journey to Pluto
Nine years and three billion miles later, NASA's New Horizon probe awoke once it neared a strip close to Pluto. The probe ...
Test launch for Manned Mission to Mars postponed; history will have to wait [UPDATE]
A series of setbacks, including a strayed boat, gusts of wind and other technical issues, have ruined NASA's plans of ...
Moving closer to life on Mars: Curiosity Rover identifies its first mineral
For the first time in its mission to study Mars and the potential for life on it, the Curiosity Rover ...
India’s probe nears Mars orbit – will it make history?
India's Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM, for short, is gearing up to enter Mars' orbit this Wednesday, after the dormant ...
NASA returns to manned space flight, gives contracts to SpaceX and Boeing
NASA astronauts will once again travel from the Earth to the International Space Station - under groundbreaking contracts announced today. ...
NASA starts building the largest rocket in the world for 2018 launch
Artist impression of how the Space Launch System will look like in full throttle when its completed. Image: (NASA/MSFC) Since ...
The International Space Station is out of parking space
Image: NASA At this very moment, the International Space Station has all its docking ports fully booked, as five manned ...
Saturn’s moon Titan may be older than Saturn itself
Titan is in the spolight again! After astronomers spotted a passing geological feature, now a joint team from NASA and ...
NASA activates veggie growing system on the ISS
Growing vegetables in outer space - something which science fiction readers are very familiar with, but in the real world, ...
NASA spots 5 volcanoes erupting at the same time in Russia
Shiveluch Remote, cold, rugged, and fiedy - that's the Kamceatka Peninsula for you! Out of all the 1,550 volcanoes that have erupted ...
NASA to conduct unprecedented twin experiment: one twin will spend a year circling the Earth, while the other stays grounded
It's something that puzzled me for years now: consider a pair of identical twins; say, one gets a job as an ...
NASA cuts ties with Russia; ISS cooperation still to continue
The International Space Station may be threatened by the recent worsen relations between the US and Russia. Photo: NASA A ...
US space flight and ISS missions are dependent on Russia. What happens if the country pulls a squeeze?
Following Russia's invasion of Crimea, the world political scene has been suddenly turned upside down. Many were surprised by this ...
Curiosity rover switches strategy: hunts for organic molecules
This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a series of sedimentary ...
Comet ISON offers a rare Thanksgiving sight with closest flyby to the sun
UPDATE: Telescopes saw the giant ball of ice and dust disappear behind the star, but then fail to emerge as expected. ...
To boldly go where no plant has gone before – NASA to grow plants on the moon in 2015
If astronauts are ever to live on the moon or in deep space outposts, a sustainable living plan in which ...
Armada of instruments witness the brightest cosmic event of the century: the birth of a black hole
An artist’s conception of the processes by which a star collapses and becomes a black hole, releasing high-energy gamma rays ...
NASA’s great observatories combine to probe deeper in the Universe
These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part of an ambitious new ...
Russian ICBM missile test in space catches ISS astronauts by surprise
Right after World Space Week ended just last week - an event that celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the ...
NASA will grow its own vegetables onboard the ISS
Last year, an astronaut named Don Pettit started an unusual, but very poetic and insightful writing project on NASA's website: ...
NASA successfully tests 3D printed rocket engine injector
NASA and a company called Aerojet Rocketdyne recently finished testing a rocket engine injector created purely through 3D printing. The ...
10.000th near Earth object found
A near-Earth object (NEO) is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth; now, the 10.000th ...
Meteor crash on the moon causes biggest explosion since monitoring
In March, a medium sized meteorite slammed into the moon's surface causing the greatest explosion observed thus far, ever since ...
Curiosity measurements traces Martian air loss
Billions of years ago, Mars had a much richer atmosphere than it has today, which is rather an understatement considering ...
Farthest supernova discovered by Hubble helps unravel Universe secrets
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come across the farthest supernova of its type found thus far - a type Ia ...
Historic ISS rendzvous with manned spacecraft set for today [UPDATE]
Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin (left), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA pose for pictures ...
Early asteroids in our solar system may have been giant mudballs, not rocks
There are millions of asteroids in our solar system. Be them the size of France or a small bus, these ...
Curiosity rover halted once more due to computer glitch. More signs of ancient Martian water found in the meantime
The Curiosity rover is in a bit of trouble and is currently facing it's longest period of inactivity since its ...
Astonishing news from NASA: evidence of hospitable environment for ancient Martian life found
I just finished watching NASA's latest and definitely most important Curiosity briefing to date. There the Curiosity team announced findings ...
Watch NASA’s latest Curiosity briefing live @ 1 P.M.
The space agency just recently tweeted that it will hold a public briefing centered around the rover Curiosity to inform ...
Curiosity rover software glitch patched, set to recover
Artist impression of the Curiosity rover trekking through the red planet. The rover is tasked with assessing Mars' ability to ...
This week, connect with astronauts from the ISS
NASA's really trying to step up their social media game, and this is definitely good news. This week, NASA's social ...
Rare supernova leftovers might have produced the youngest black hole in the Milky Way
This highly distorted supernova remnant may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy. The composite ...
ISON – the comet of the century – caught on film by spacecraft
If you remember, a few weeks ago I reported on the ISON comet, discovered just last year, but which is ...
Watch footage from the last NASA spacecraft to crash on the moon [VIDEO]
Ebb and Flow chased each other around the moon for nearly a year, peering into the interior. With dwindling fuel ...
NASA funds ISS inflatable module. Cheap and reliable blow-up space stations might hit low-orbit in the future
A concept design for a inflatable space station module. (c) Bigelow Aerospace Recently, NASA announced in a press release that ...
NuSTAR’s high power X-ray images two unusually bright black holes in spiral galaxy [STUNNING PHOTOS]
The new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5. (c) NASA Launched just last year, NASA's Nuclear ...
NASA considers capturing and pulling an asteroid into lunar orbit
An artist impression of a robotic probe capturing an asteroid. It might look like a space rock bucket, however, the ...
Curiosity drill malfunction could fry the rover’s electronics and jeopardize the entire mission
The Mars Curiosity rover is preparing to use its drilling tool for the first time, however as preparations for the ...
Massive fireball over Texas caught on film
Hope you guys had a fantastic weekend. If the weather was on your side, maybe you even had the chance ...
Plant stress paints early picture of drought
It was a warm, drought plagued year - in July 2012, farmers in the U.S. Midwest and Plains regions watched ...
Curiosity’s “history books” find is all a big misunderstanding
Last week we were all filled with enthusiasm at sight of recent rumors that had Curiosity on the brink of ...
ESA gets big budget, prepares Mars mission
After no less than 48 hours of negotiating in Naples, Italy, the 20 European nations that support the European Space ...
Curiosity’s secret announcement – what could it be?
A few days ago, the Curiosity rover staff made an announcement that sent echoes throughout the entire scientific community - ...
