Tag: Nasa

Washington: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which is humanity’s first mission to the Sun, has begun final preparations for its launch in July. Parker Solar Probe will be launched from Launch Complex-37 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. The two-hour launch window will open at 4 a.m. on July 31, and will be repeated each day […]

Washington: Tupperware, a household name when it comes to keeping food fresh, is now helping NASA improve astronauts’ diet with its airtight plastic containers at the International Space Station (ISS). Since 2015, NASA astronauts have supplemented their space diet with fresh greens grown in the Vegetable Production System known as “Veggie” on the ISS. One […]

Washington: NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which aims to find alien worlds with capacity to harbour life is scheduled to launch on April 16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On March 15, the spacecraft passed a review that confirmed it was ready for launch, […]

Washington: Love to gaze at the clouds and admire nature’s creativity? NASA invites you to take part in a citizen science cloud observation challenge. As a part of its GLOBE Programme — an international science and education programme beginning March 15 through April 15 — citizen scientists of all ages can make up to 10 cloud […]

Washington: If you want your name to travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, braving brutal heat and radiation conditions, here comes your chance. NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic solar probe launching this summer. “This probe will journey to a region […]

Washington: Using a radio antenna not much larger than a refrigerator, astronomers have detected for the first time a signal from stars emerging in the early universe. The researchers discovered that ancient suns were active within 180 million years of the Big Bang, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The astronomers made […]

Washington: Six-year-old Cara O’Connor of Ireland, who dreams of becoming a NASA astronaut one day, wrote a letter to the space agency urging it to reclassify Pluto as a planet, The Washington Post reported this week. Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the governing body of astronomy, the […]

London: An international team of scientists have confirmed the discovery of nearly 100 new exoplanets — planets located outside our solar system. The discovery was based on data from the second mission of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope or K2 released in 2014. K2 searches for exoplanet transits by registering dips in light caused by the […]

Washington: While NASA continues to learn about the state of its newly rediscovered IMAGE mission, the US space agency has said that the spacecraft proved to be a “discovery” machine and during nearly six years in operation, it provided robust research about the space around Earth. The data collected during its years of operation led […]

Washington:  NASA has postponed the second planned spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for this week to mid-February, after developing a software patch for a glitch that two astronauts had expected to fix during the first spacewalk. Astronauts Mark Vande Hei from NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — crew […]

Washington: SpaceX’s new heavy-lift rocket Falcon Heavy completed its static firing test at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday after multiple delays. The Falcon Heavy rocket ignited all 27 engines of its first-stage at about 12:30 p.m. American Eastern Standard Time for about 10 seconds, spewing violent exhaust and steam, a video on […]

Washington: An intermediate-sized asteroid, categorised as a “potentially hazardous asteroid”, will make a close approach to earth on February 4, but has zero chances of colliding with our planet in over the next 100 years, NASA said in a statement. Discovered in January 2002, the asteroid 2002 AJ129 is somewhere between 0.3 miles (0.5 km) […]

Las Vegas: In a bid to create a roadmap for the technology and business evolution of the automotive industry, Nissan has announced a fresh agreement with NASA. NASA Ames Research Centre in California’s Silicon Valley and Nissan will collaborate on research and technology development for future autonomous mobility services, including a working demonstration in Silicon […]

New York: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, will encounter the most primitive and most distant object in the history of space exploration, on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in 2019. New Horizons’ next mission — the Kuiper Belt object, referred to as MU69 — is an icy world […]

Sydney: Researchers in Australia have found a way to increase wheat production by up to three times through their “speed breeding” procedures inspired by NASA experiments to grow the crop in space. The NASA experiments involved using continuous light on wheat which triggered early reproduction in the plants, said Lee Hickey of University of Queensland […]