Washington,Jan 5: Jeanette Epps will become the first African-American space station crew member when she launches on her first spaceflight in May 2018, NASA said. The New York native spent
WASHINGTON,Jan: A rare comet discovered by NASA scientists will be visible using just binoculars to skywatchers on Earth this week for the first time, before the object heads back into
WASHINGTON,Dec30: The first explorers on Mars may build their homes using the ice beneath their feet to effectively protect them from the harsh martian environment and provide a safe place
Cape Canaveral,Dec16:Though it sounds like something from a sci-fi movie — a plane carries a rocket high in the sky, releases it, and the rocket fires into space, later deploying
Cape canaveral,Dec6:The US space agency NASA’s astronauts aboard the International Space Station started growing red romaine lettuce last month and now have successfully reaped the leaves for the first time
Washington, Nov 30: In the successful first relay test of a NASA radio aboard Europe’s new Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), data from NASA rovers Opportunity and Curiosity reached Earth last week,
New York, Nov 23: Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have discovered a large deposit of ice beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars. The
Cape Canaveral,Nov22:The latest set of space-fire experiments has blazed up aboard the private Cygnus cargo spacecraft. Mission controllers on the ground ignited NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Experiment II (Saffire-II) today (Nov.
Washington, Nov 21: NASA on Saturday blasted off a new satellite designed to offer a “huge leap” in weather forecasting by sending back more frequent and higher-definition images of severe
CAPE CANAVERAL,Nov17: NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is on the verge of becoming the oldest woman in space, adding to her long list of barrier-breaking records. Whitson will be 56 when
New York, Nov 12 : Spotting a full moon always reminds us of our loved ones and on Monday you should prepare yourself for the largest and brightest moon in nearly
Washington, Nov 11 In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, NASA’s Spitzer and Swift space telescopes joined forces to reveal a brown dwarf – thought to be the missing link between planets and
WASHINGTON,Nov5: NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS) has set the Guinness World Record for highest altitude fix of a GPS signal, at 70,000 kilometres above the surface of the Earth. Operating
WASHINGTON,Nov3: Nasa has successfully completed building its largest space telescope, which will be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble probe and may find the first galaxies that formed in
Miami,Oct27:NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft is set for its next close flyby of Jupiter, after exiting its safe mode and completing a minor burn of its thruster engines. The spacecraft had
Washington, Oct 22 : NASA said it will establish a virtual institute to advance the field of small spacecraft systems at its Ames Research Center in the heart of Silicon Valley
WASHINGTON,Oct20: NASA’s New Horizons space probe has spotted possible clouds hovering over Pluto, indicating that the weather on the icy dwarf planet is more complex than thought. “We’re excited about
Baikonur, Oct 19: Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut soared into orbit in a Soyuz spacecraft Wednesday at the start of a two-day journey to the International Space Station.
Washington, Oct 11: US President Barack Obama outlines plans to get humans to Mars in the 2030s. “We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of America’s
WASHINGTON,Oct11: NASA has developed a new high-tech material that uses electricity to significantly promote healing of injured wounds. In conditions of non-Earth gravity, human blood displays behaviour quite different from