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Washington, July 16 (ANI): Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew have set off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 15, to deliver the final segment to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory and a new ... Read More »
NASA may release missing videotapes of Apollo 11 Moon landing
Washington, July 15 (ANI): A carefully worded media advisory note by NASA is being considered as a hint that the agency has found missing videotapes of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. According to a report by Fox News, the note ... Read More »
Launch of NASA’s space shuttle Endeavour postponed until July 13
Washington, July 13 (ANI): NASA has decided to postpone the scheduled July 12th launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station (ISS) until July 13th due to thunderstorms near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Sensors indicted there ... Read More »
NASA spacecraft reveals dramatic thinning of Arctic sea ice
Washington, July 8 (ANI): Data from a NASA Earth-orbiting spacecraft has revealed a dramatic thinning of Arctic sea ice between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the ... Read More »
New system to help aircraft avoid ocean storms and turbulence
Washington, July 8 (ANI): In a new research, NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions. The system is being developed by ... Read More »
NASA’s Fermi Telescope discovers 16 pulsars in deep space
Washington, July 7 (ANI): Astronomers have used NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to discover 16 pulsars. A pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. Most of the 1,800 cataloged pulsars were ... Read More »
Buzz Aldrin calls for human settlement on Mars
London, July 4 (ANI): The NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin has said that humans should create a settlement on Mars to provide much-needed objectives to the younger generation. Aldrin, the second man to set his foot on the Moon, has claimed ... Read More »
Scientists make first direct measurement of lunar backscatter from solar wind
Washington, July 4 (ANI): A team of scientists has for the first time observed energetic neutral atoms scattered off the Moon from the incoming solar wind ion beam. When the solar wind, made up mostly of ionized hydrogen, hits the ... Read More »
Most successful space mission finally ends
Paris, July 1 (ANI): Ulysses, the joint ESA/NASA solar orbiter mission, one of the longest and most successful space missions ever conducted, has finally ended, with ground controllers sending commands to shut down the satellite’s communications on June 30. The ... Read More »
Martian climate was life-friendly more recently than thought
Washington, July 1 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found evidence that indicates the Martian climate was life-friendly more recently than thought. Matthew Balme, a research scientist with the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute and a research fellow at the ... Read More »
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in safe mode after unexpected rebooting
Washington, June 6 (ANI): NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode and in communications with Earth after an unexpected rebooting of its computer on the evening of June 3. The spontaneous reboot resembles a February 23 event on the ... Read More »
NASA to test alternate concept for astronaut escape system on June 15
Washington, June 5 (ANI): NASA is going to test its alternate concept for astronaut escape system on June 15. Called the Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, the system is scheduled to be tested on June 15 at the agency’s ... Read More »
Titan’s clouds hang onto summer for long
Washington, June 4 (ANI): Scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission, studying Saturn’s moon Titan say its clouds are still noticeable in the southern hemisphere while fall is approaching. They monitored Titan’s atmosphere for three-and-a-half years, between July 2004 and December 2007, ... Read More »
NASA selects June 13 as lunch date for space shuttle Endeavour
Washington, June 4 (ANI): NASA managers have completed a review of space shuttle Endeavour’s readiness for flight and selected June 13 as the official launch date for the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Commander Mark Polansky and ... Read More »
Scientists map waves in Earth’s radiation belt
Washington, June 1 (ANI): Scientists at NASA have mapped chorus waves, a type of electromagnetic emission generated by electrons in Earth’s radiation belt. Chorus waves play an important role in both accelerating and removing the energetic radiation belt electrons that ... Read More »