Tag: Nasa
NASA’s black female mathematicians hit the big screen
During the era of US racial segregation, a handful of black female mathematicians managed to break social barriers and propel the US space agency...
NASA unveils photos of Jupiter’s poles
NASA published Friday the first-ever images of Jupiter’s north pole and its southern aurora, taken during the Juno spacecraft’s first orbital flyby of the...
Spacecraft Juno skims Jupiter’s clouds in record-breaking mission
A spacecraft has skimmed the clouds of Jupiter in a record-breaking close approach to the giant planet. Juno activated its whole suite of nine...
July 2016 was Earth’s hottest year in recorded history, says Nasa
Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to Nasa.
Even after the fading of a strong El Nino, which spikes global...
Europe makes fourth attempt to launch Russian rocket
Europe will attempt to launch a Russian Soyuz rocket for the fourth time Monday after weather conditions and technical faults halted previous take-offs, launch...
Space craft set to launch to study Martian atmosphere
Courtesy The New York Times
The ExoMars 2016 mission – a collaboration between the European and Russian space agencies – is scheduled to blast off...
SpaceX successfully launches satellite but rocket crash lands
SpaceX has successfully launched a communications satellite to a distant orbit but failed, as expected, to land the first stage of its Falcon 9...
China Signs $6 billion Nuclear Plant deal with Argentina
State-owned China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) has signed a $6 billion deal for the construction of Argentina’s fourth nuclear power plant.
Argentina’s fourth nuclear power...
NASA spacecraft finds blue skies and water ice on Pluto
In a major finding, the first colour images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes beamed by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show that the icy-dwarf planet has...
NASA shares stunning photos of the Pakistan-India border
NASA posted a photo of the border between India and Pakistan as seen from outer space on Facebook on Sunday.
The photo was taken by...
Evidence of flowing liquid water on Mars: NASA
Liquid water has been observed on the planet Mars, the US space agency NASA said Monday.
“Mars is not the dry, arid planet we thought...
“Closing the Loop” – NASA grants $200,000 to turn astronaut’s feces...
NASA has decided to give $200,000 a year to a research project intended to create food, fertiliser, and supplements from astronauts’ waste for a...
NASA spacecraft shows Pluto wrapped in haze, ice flows
A stunning silhouette of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft after it shot past the icy orb last week show an extensive layer...
Asteroid that flew past Earth has small moon: NASA
The asteroid that flew past the Earth Jan 26 has its own small moon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said.
In the first radar...
Group sealed in dome for 8 months to test mental health...
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Six people have sealed themselves inside a white vinyl dome in Hawaii to embark on an eight-month test of how their mental health might...
NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in...
715 new planets discovered by NASA
NASA's Kepler mission has announced the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own...
