Tag: Nasa

Washington: US space agency NASA said that its 11-year-old MESSENGER spacecraft will crash into the surface of Mercury, most likely on April 30, after it runs out of fuel. The “spacecraft will impact the planet at more than 8,750 miles per hour on the side of the planet facing away from Earth,” NASA said in […]

Washington:NASA engineers have lifted the orbit of the Mercury probe – currently operating on an extended mission and almost out of fuel – and delayed its inevitable impact into Mercury’s surface by up to a month. Launched in August 2004, the $450 million MEercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (Messenger) mission is currently orbiting […]

Washington: While the world is awestruck at the success of the sun-powered plane called Solar Impulse 2, NASA is working on a more efficient, electric-powered plane that has 18 propellers attached to it. As part of NASA’s Leading Edge Asynchronous Propellers Technology project (LEAPTech), these 18 small engines sit atop the 31-foot-wide carbon composite wingspan […]

A pair of bright spots that glimmer inside an impact crater on the asteroid Ceres could be some kind of icy plume, new images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft have revealed

Moon Express, a California-based aerospace company co-founded by Indian-American billionaire Naveen Jain, aims to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year as part of a NASA lunar initiative

Washington: NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet called Ceres. The spacecraft was approximately 61,000 km from Ceres when it was captured by the dwarf planet’s gravity on March 6. “Since its discovery in 1801, Ceres was known as a planet, then an asteroid and later a […]

Ancient Mars was likely to have possessed a primitive ocean that held more water than the Earth's Arctic Ocean, the US space agency NASA said

NASA's Curiosity rover has clicked a selfie showing the vehicle at the “Mojave” site on the Red Planet where its drill collected the mission's second taste of Mount Sharp

NASA will start a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa in the hope of finding signs of life on the frozen planet

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has captured a giant dark line snaked across the lower half of the Sun - longer than 67 Earths lined up in a row

Two astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have successfully completed the deployment of solar arrays, which will soak up the sun's energy to provide electrical power for the numerous research and science investigations conducted every day, as well as the continued operations of the orbiting platform.

Hit by five cyclones on its eastern coast last year, India is planning to procure a NASA aircraft equipped with a lab to study wind patterns at high altitude for better prediction of such calamities

Washington: For the first time in more than a decade, five NASA Earth science missions will be launched into space in the same year, opening new and improved remote eyes to monitor our changing planet. The five launches, including two to the International Space Station (ISS), are part of an active year for NASA Earth […]

Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship on Sunday made rendezvous with the International Space Station on the company's first regular supply mission to the research outpost

NASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA are teaming up to launch a new weather satellite in February 2014, to improve environmental research and weather forecasts worldwide