NASA

Washington :  NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has finally reached the Red Planet's Mount Sharp - a Mount-Rainier-size mountain at the centre of the vast Gale Crater and the rover mission's long-term prime destination. After two years and…
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Washington :  The US space agency, NASA, is developing the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar device to map forests on Earth in 3D and increase understanding of their role in the carbon cycle. The instrument will be the…
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Washington : In a bid to monitor Earth better, the NASA is adding a number of Earth-observing instruments to the International Space Station (ISS) that will increase the leverage of the space station's unique vantage point in space.…
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AGENCY: Our first completed Orion crew module sits atop its service module at the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew and service module will be transferred together on Wednesday to…
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New York : NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is set for a flash memory reformatting after experiencing an increasing number of computer resets. The US space agency is preparing to download all useful data remaining in…
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New York :  The most powerful solar flare ever is beginning to rotate to a position directly in line with Earth that, if it hits the ground, can send GPS and communication signals out of gear, the NASA reported. The sun is going through…
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Washington : NASA astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of the massive galaxy construction. The building site, dubbed "Sparky", is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn…
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Washington :  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced to launch its $7 billion Space Launch System (SLS) - the heavy-lift, exploration class rocket under development to take humans beyond earth and eventually…
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Washington ;  The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing a new troop of robots that could one day race across distant planets as a sort of space exploration vanguard. Dubbed as "swarmies", the remote…
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Washington : A new NASA probe called New Horizons passed Neptune's orbit Monday, nearly 25 years after Voyager 2 spacecraft executed the first-ever flyby of faraway Neptune and its icy moon Triton. It was a perfect time for the New…
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