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NASA prepares to bid goodbye to 'Mars InSight lander'; Ending its mission

NASA's Mars InSight lander is set to fall silent in the next few weeks, ending its history-making mission to reveal secrets of the Red Planet's interior.

Nov 2, 2022

NASA forms team to study UFOs, conspiracy theorists expect alien disclosure

The new study on UFOs is expected to last for nine months

Oct 27, 2022

Space: NASA kicks off study to unravel UAP or UFOs' mysteries

NASA has kicked off a study to help scientists learn more about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) or UFOs (unidentified flying objects).

Oct 25, 2022

Space News: NASA's James Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation

NASA has announced that its James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape -- the iconic Pillars of Creation, where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust.

Oct 20, 2022

Space: NASA set to break sound barrier again for future air travel

NASA aeronautical innovators are poised to break the sound barrier again, this time in a very different way that could make it possible for all of us to one day travel by air just as fast as any of the X-1 pilots who flew supersonic.

Oct 16, 2022

An artist's illustration of the Lucy spacecraft

NASA sets Lucy swing by Earth briefly; Also to observe 'Donaldjohanson' [Details]

A NASA spacecraft named Lucy, the first mission to the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, will skim the earth's atmosphere, passing a mere 350 kms above the surface on October 16, to gain some of the orbital energy it needs to travel to this never-before-visited population of asteroids.

Oct 14, 2022

NASA targets Mid November for Artemis 1 moon rocket launch

Space: NASA sets Nov 14 as next launch date for Artemis I Moon mission

The US space agency has now set the next launch attempt of the Artemis I Moon mission for November 14, after facing two failed attempts due to liquid hydrogen gas leak in one of the engines.

Oct 13, 2022

Spacecraft changed asteroid's orbit after smashing into it.

Watershed Moment for NASA: Spacecraft changed asteroid's orbit by few minutes after smashing into it

The US space agency has confirmed that when its spacecraft smashed into an asteroid last month, it altered its orbit by 32 minutes, calling it a "watershed moment" for planetary defense.

Oct 12, 2022

NASA's Hubble does it again, this time captures spectacular pair of interacting galaxies

The interacting galaxies are part of an effort to build up an archive of interesting targets for more detailed future study with Hubble, ground-based telescopes, and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.

Oct 8, 2022

NASA seeks SpaceX help to boost Hubble telescope to reach higher, stable orbit

Reboosting Hubble into a higher, more stable orbit could add multiple years of operations to its life, according to the US space agency.

Sep 30, 2022

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NASA's DART mission successfully hits asteroid in planetary defence test with 'kinetic impact' technique

After 10 months of flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- the world's first planetary defence technology demonstration -- successfully impacted its asteroid target, the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.

Sep 27, 2022

NASA's James telescope reveals stunning images of Jupiter, its moon

Don't miss giant gas planet's closest date with Earth in 59 years

Jupiter was set to make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday and stargazers were waiting for an excellent view when the giant gas planet reaches "opposition". The next time Jupiter will come this close will be in 2129.

Sep 27, 2022

NASA set to crash spacecraft into asteroid to protect Earth in future

NASA has a plan to save Earth from "killer" asteroids; it'll hit it with spacecraft [details]

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a first such mission, was set to impact its target asteroid -- which poses no threat to Earth -- at 7.14 p.m. on Monday (4.44 a.m. on Tuesday IST).

Sep 26, 2022

Humans should consider visiting Venus before Mars colonization, experts say

Venus has clouds filled with sulfuric acid, and it has a crushing atmosphere making it inhabitable

Sep 26, 2022

James Webb Space telescope captures striking view of Neptune's rings

James Webb Space telescope captures stunning view of Neptune's rings

"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we've seen them in the infrared," Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for Webb, said in a statement.

Sep 22, 2022

NASA lander 'hears' first impact sounds from space rocks on Mars

Space News: NASA lander 'hears' first impact sounds of space rocks on region 'Elysium Planitia'

NASA's InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars.

Sep 20, 2022

NASA, Google to help track air pollution at local level with AI

NASA and Google will develop advanced machine learning-based algorithms that link space data with Google Earth Engine data streams to generate high-resolution air quality maps in near real-time.

Sep 16, 2022

The Artemis I rocket sits on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Cente

Space News: NASA prepares to launch Artemis I Moon mission on Sep 27

NASA will attempt to launch its Artemis I moon mission on September 27 after two failures, with a potential backup opportunity of October 2 under review.

Sep 14, 2022

Asteroid general artist's concept of a near-Earth object.

10 times faster than a bullet, supersonic asteroid "2022 QC7 " to pass Earth tomorrow: NASA

A small supersonic asteroid, travelling at ten times the speed of a bullet, will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, media reports said.

Sep 5, 2022

NASA's Webb captures 1st direct image of distant exoplanet

Beware, hackers on prowl using NASA's famous deep space image to attack computers

A newly-discovered hacking campaign is exploiting an image from the James Webb Telescope to infect targets with malware.

Sep 3, 2022

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