Tag: Nasa
NASA launches next-generation tracking and comms satellite
NASA’s ability to track satellites and orbiting spacecraft is about to get a big boost, following the launch last night of a next-generation communication...
Largest ever spiral galaxy spotted
Astroboffins using NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) telescope, which sees ultraviolet light, have realised that NGC6872 is the biggest known galaxy, much larger than...
NASA celebrates stunning discoveries made by Mars rovers Spirit, Opportunity
Nine years ago today, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory began their missions to Mars. On January 3rd, 2004 NASA’s first Mars rover, which was named...
NASA ‘Everest’ photo was Indian mountain Saser Muztagh
The US space agency, NASA , has admitted it mistook a mountain in India for Mount Everest when it posted online a picture taken...
Nasa camera captures ‘fireball’ over Texas
Video footage of a "fireball" flashing in the sky over Texas has been captured by a Nasa camera. The camera picked up the flash...
Curiosity shortlisted for Time’s Person of the Year 2012
Despite actually being a car-sized robotic rover with an array of scientific instruments instead of internal organs and a radioisotope thermoelectric generator rather than...
NASA plans new Mars rover for 2020
NASA officials plan to build a new rover that would follow Curiosity on the surface of Mars. The announcement electrified many of the roughly...
NASA discovers ice on the planet closest to the sun
Space’s mysteries continue to baffle scientists across the nation as NASA finds ice on Mercury. Tests run by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which arrived on...
Cassini finds second ‘PAC-MAN’ moon in Saturn system
Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission have spotted a second feature shaped like the 1980s video game icon “PAC-MAN” in the Saturn system, this time...
NASA scientist debunks end of the world theories
Is the world going to end right in the middle of the upcoming holiday season? While that wouldn’t be good for retail sales, many...
NASA may soon unveil new manned missions to Moon
NASA is likely to announce new plans to send astronauts back to the Moon following the outcome of the US presidential elections, according to...
A diamond bigger than Earth?
Forget the diamond as big as the Ritz. This one's bigger than planet Earth.
The universe just got a bit richer with the discovery of...
Video games help NASA control robots, rovers
It may not seem like the serious interplanetary science being done by NASA and the entertainment provided by video games would have much in...
NASA beams first song from Mars
NASA transmitted the first song to be broadcast from Mars on Tuesday, by Grammy-winning US musician will.i.am, as part of efforts to inspire young...
Planet pop: NASA beams first song from Mars
NASA transmitted the first song to be broadcast from Mars on Tuesday, by Grammy-winning US musician will.i.am, as part of efforts to inspire young...
Enormous step forward as NASA lands rover on Mars
NASA on Sunday successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, marking the most...
Russian cargo ship fails to dock at ISS: NASA
The Russian cargo ship Progress has failed to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS) during tests designed to facilitate future dockings, the...
