Tag: Nasa
NASA’s new moon probe settles into lunar orbit
Politics may be keeping most of NASA's workers home, but that didn't stop the US space agency's new moon probe from achieving lunar orbit,...
Off on an asteroid? NASA releases photos of rock mission
NASA has released new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid. The images...
Close call as astronaut nearly drowns…in space
NASA survived a close call at the International Space Station on Tuesday when aspacewalking astronaut could have drowned in his spacesuit helmet — an...
Hubble discovers blue planet in our neighbourhood
NASA scientists have discovered a blue planet that possibly rains glass, orbiting a star 63 light-years away, marking the first time an exoplanet’s true...
LEGO plans Mars rover Curiosity model
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which for almost a year has been driving across the Red Planet, will be the next model to roll off...
Rare stellar alignment gives NASA the opportunity to search for alien...
NASA has always been excited about finding new Earth-sized, alien planets and a recent occurrence presented the space agency with a golden opportunity to...
How Kepler could die and keep giving
NASA hasn’t given up on resurrecting its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, but even if the observatory can’t be saved, scientists expect it already has...
Opportunity breaks NASA’s 40-year roving record
After nine years of hard Mars roving, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity has broken a 40-year-old extraterrestrial distance record. On Thursday, the tenacious six-wheeled...
NASA invites public to send names and messages to Mars
NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a...
NASA spots colossal Saturn hurricane
The hurricane roiling around Saturn's north pole looks a lot like a hurricane on Earth—except much, much bigger. Its eye is about 20 times...
Is NASA looking in the wrong place for life?
The world’s leading space agency, NASA, has an ambitious new Grand Plan: to “identify, capture and relocate” an asteroid. Outlining the Agency’s $17.7 billion...
NASA Asteroid landing mission to take place in 2021
NASA is planning for a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top...
Nasa’s audacious plan to catch an asteroid in a giant draw-string...
Projected to cost $2.65billion in total and last ten years, the project is said to have found favour with President Obama's administration, which has...
NASA puts $5m towards asteroid detection
A Hawaii scientist’s ATLAS project would find asteroids a day or more before impact. In the wake of a meteor exploding over Russia, Hawaii’s...
NASA spots nearby ‘young’ black hole
NASA has spotted what appears to be the galaxy’s newest black hole—and it’s relatively nearby. The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted the aftermath of...
NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East
An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management,...
Curiosity rover hammers into first Mars rock in crucial test
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has pounded into a Red Planet rock with its drill for the first time, bringing the 1-ton robot a big...
