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Opportunity rover on Mars lost forever? Not waking up after put to sleep during storm

One of the hardiest vehicles ever built- the Mars Opportunity rover got bogged down by a planet-encircling dust storm earlier this year, the storm might have finally killed it.

Aug 14, 2018

NASA'a fastest spacecraft lifts off successfully after minor problems

The spacecraft, Parker Solar PRobe was initially supposed to take off on Saturday morning.

Aug 12, 2018

NASA explains why flying to the Sun is not easy - it's not the heat

NASA estimates that it would take a spacecraft, 55 times more energy to reach the Sun than it would to reach Mars and this is not just because of the distance it has to cover.

Aug 9, 2018

NASA announces names of astronauts for first four commercial crew flights

As part of NASA's Commercial Crew program, Boeing will be launching its Starliner capsules and SpaceX its Dragon capsules as test flights

Aug 9, 2018

Better be safe than sorry, says NASA ahead of deep space demo flights of Boeing, SpaceX

While SpaceX has named the test flight Demo-1; Boeing is calling it Orbital Flight Test

Aug 9, 2018

You can build your own Mars rover with this blueprint put out by NASA

Plans for a small, portable version of the Curiosity rover that is relatively easy to build can be downloaded from the JPL site.

Aug 7, 2018

Watch: NASA's planet-hunting TESS yet to start its science missions, already catches a comet

Images were stitched together to create the video were captured over the course of 17 hours on July 25.

Aug 7, 2018

Meteor older than Solar System holds clue to Earth's building blocks: Study

There were rocks floating about in space before the Earth came to be and one such rock has researchers learning a lot of about the Earth's birth and formation, finds Poorna Srinivasan, an Indian-origin space scientist.

Aug 7, 2018

Government coverup alleged after a huge meteor spotted near US military base

Conspiracy theorists believe that the government is intentionally covering up news about potentially dangerous space bodies to avoid public panic

Aug 6, 2018

NASA names Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams among 9 chosen for human spaceflight

Williams has been named for the Boeing programme to the ISS - the first test flight scheduled to take place in the middle of 2019.

Aug 4, 2018

Once upon a time there was a star.., narrates NASA

A supernova remnant is a sign of an exploded star. In this particular image, red filaments belong to a supernova remnant HBH 3, first detected in 1966.

Aug 3, 2018

Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster

As space race heats up, Amazon's Bezos spends more cash than ever to fuel Blue Origin's growth

Jeff Bezos is on a hiring spree, having spent millions to bring on board more engineers and speed up the development of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, as it looks to compete in the increasingly crowded space race, now dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

Aug 3, 2018

All three of humanity's space exploration targets in one image from Earth

The image with the Moon, Mars, and the ISS are seen together was taken near Mount Remarkable National Park, Australia.

Aug 2, 2018

Elon Musk's dream of nuking Mars terrible, just won't help to reverse weather, says new study

Elon Musk had once famously said that he hopes to nuke the planet in order to make it habitable; however, a new study has concluded that even nuking the Red Planet will not get the job done

Jul 31, 2018

Mars is a thousand times drier than driest place on Earth – might be too arid to host life

In the Atacama desert, microbes only exist in a dormant state, barely surviving.

Jul 30, 2018

NOAA's $11 billion project on hold after weather satellite malfunctions

GOES-17 is not operating at its optimal capacity due to cooling issues. The instrument is designed to look at Earth through 16 camera channels, but only about six are functional.

Jul 26, 2018

NASA yet to study rocks brought back by Apollo

Over 84 percent of all samples brought back from the Moon remain untouched.

Jul 25, 2018

NASA's planetary defence programme is now 20 years old

The story of how NASA started and now operates the most precise and detailed map of all asteroids and comets that could potentially strike Earth.

Jul 24, 2018

UK's space agency wants you to help name their upcoming Mars rover

Boaty McBoatface all over again?

Jul 24, 2018

Mars is engulfed in a massive sandstorm - NASA makes use of opportunity to study its climate

There are currently a number of missions running instruments both on and in the vicinity of the red planet that are in the perfect place and time to study Mars. Global dust storms like this one are not frequent, they only appear once in 8 years or so.

Jul 22, 2018

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Nasa

Opportunity rover on Mars lost forever? Not waking up after put to sleep during storm

NASA'a fastest spacecraft lifts off successfully after minor problems

NASA explains why flying to the Sun is not easy - it's not the heat

NASA announces names of astronauts for first four commercial crew flights

Better be safe than sorry, says NASA ahead of deep space demo flights of Boeing, SpaceX

You can build your own Mars rover with this blueprint put out by NASA

Watch: NASA's planet-hunting TESS yet to start its science missions, already catches a comet

Meteor older than Solar System holds clue to Earth's building blocks: Study

Government coverup alleged after a huge meteor spotted near US military base

NASA names Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams among 9 chosen for human spaceflight

Once upon a time there was a star.., narrates NASA

As space race heats up, Amazon's Bezos spends more cash than ever to fuel Blue Origin's growth

All three of humanity's space exploration targets in one image from Earth

Elon Musk's dream of nuking Mars terrible, just won't help to reverse weather, says new study

Mars is a thousand times drier than driest place on Earth – might be too arid to host life

NOAA's $11 billion project on hold after weather satellite malfunctions

NASA yet to study rocks brought back by Apollo

NASA's planetary defence programme is now 20 years old

UK's space agency wants you to help name their upcoming Mars rover

Mars is engulfed in a massive sandstorm - NASA makes use of opportunity to study its climate

Time for India to follow suit? France, Germany, Netherlands, US banned use of EVMs [here's why]

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