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Remembering 12 astronauts who stepped on Moon

Twelve people have walked on the Moon till now, here is a quick list to remember them by.

May 27, 2018

Nibiru caught on camera? Sudden interruption of ISS live feed adds up the mystery

Adding up the mystery quotient, the ISS live feed was cut off within moments after the object appeared on the screen.

May 27, 2018

Mars rover Curiosity successfully resumes drilling after remote hackathon by NASA engineers

The dead drilling motor on Mars rover Curiosity was successfully replaced with alternate robotic arms remotely by NASA scientists at JPL and the rover is back in sample collection at Gale Crater

May 26, 2018

Astronaut Sally Ride, The First American Woman In Space, Will Get Her Own Stamp

Physicist and NASA astronaut Sally Ride will receive her own stamp, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Ride, who died in 2012, was the first American woman to go into space.Picture and amp; Footage:Getty ImagesNASASmithsonian Air And Space MuseumUniversity Of California Television (UCTV)United States Postal Service (USPS) and amp;nbsp;Music:AudioblocksSpace And Time and amp;nbsp;

May 25, 2018

Anita Sengupta, brain behind NASA's Curiosity landing on Mars, repeats another feat now

Cooling atoms to temperatures far below what is possible on Earth, which could be 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.

May 23, 2018

NASA study shows freshwater decline in India

The first-of-its-kind study used 14 years of observations from the US/German-led Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft mission to track global trends in freshwater in 34 regions around the world.

May 18, 2018

NASA Insight Mission Launches

NASAs next mission to Mars has launched into space for a 6 month journey where it will take the planets vital signs and help us understand how rocky planets formed.

May 5, 2018

Artist’s Impression Of Gas Giant WASP-107b

The exoplanet WASP-107b is a gas giant, orbiting a highly active K-type main sequence star. The star is about 200 light-years from Earth. Using spectroscopy, scientists were able to find helium in the escaping atmosphere of the planet and amp;mdash; the first detection of this element in the atmosphere of an exoplanet.

May 3, 2018

Jupiter moon Ganymede's environment unique: NASA probe

NASA's Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time, the hearty spacecraft sent back spates of discoveries on the gas giant's moons, including the observation of a magnetic environment around Ganymede that was distinct from Jupiter's own magnetic field.

May 2, 2018

Scientists in shock as NASA junks first-ever robotic mission to Moon

NASA pulled the plug on Resource Prospector that aimed to be the first mining expedition on another world. NASA issued a statement, saying that "some of the instruments from the Resource Prospector mission would be used in other missions that would land on the moon later".

Apr 28, 2018

Mysterious circles observed in the Arctic that even NASA cannot explain

Circular features spotted in frozen seas have caused a great deal of interest and debate among scientists at the NASA's Earth Observatory. Here are a few explanations that best fit the available information.

Apr 23, 2018

NASA's women scientists rank space movies from worst to best - the list

Scientists at NASA are fans of film, more so when they are based in space - here is a ranking of what real space engineers think of space movies.

Apr 22, 2018

Top 5 flat Earth conspiracies

According to a suprising amount of people, the Earth is flat and everyone else is wrong. Here are some of the crazy consipiracies that flat-Eathers belive.

Apr 18, 2018

NASA ropes in Lockheed Martin to build civilian supersonic low-boom aircraft

It has been nearly 15 years since the last Concorde flew. Now, NASA wants to bring back supersonic flights for passengers.

Apr 4, 2018

Hubble records most distant star ever seen – 9 billion light years away

Gravitational lensing made it possible for Hubble to capture light that has been traveling through the cosmos for billions of years.

Apr 3, 2018

NASA's Dawn mission finds Ceres geologically active, more than previously thought

This is the first time that hydrated carbonates have been found in any other planet in the Solar System outside of Earth

Mar 18, 2018

Mysterious new purple aurora named Steve by scientists

Citizen scientist photographers have captured a new kind of purple aurora in Canada and named it Steve, which officially stands for Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement .

Mar 16, 2018

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is getting taller and redder as it shrinks

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is undergoing massive changes. It is getting smaller, taller, and redder. It might not even be visible in about 10 years, says NASA.

Mar 14, 2018

Nasa's Hubble discovers 10 billion-year-old 'relic' galaxy near Milky Way

There has been no activity in NGC 1277 for over 10 billion years and it is filled with red, dying stars from the early years of the universe.

Mar 13, 2018

Ayesha Aziz: India's first female pilot from Kashmir

Ayesha Aziz is India's youngest pilot, having received her student pilot license at the age of 16. She is also the first female pilot from Kashmir.

Mar 12, 2018

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