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Curiosity rover edges closer to the Red Planet

The Curiosity rover remains perfectly on course to make its Monday (GMT) landing on the Red Planet, NASA says. The…

12 years ago

Petermann Glacier calves off an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan

The Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has calved an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan, scientists say. Images from a…

12 years ago

AS10, the fruit drink developed by NASA that rejuvenates the skin

A new study has shown that a fruit drink developed by NASA to protect astronauts from radiation, known as AS10,…

12 years ago

YouTube user claims he has found proof that NASA is covering up evidence of aliens

YouTube user “rob19791”claims he has found proof that NASA is covering up evidence of aliens because the agency's spacecraft that…

13 years ago

Mid-Infrared Instrument ready for James Webb Space Telescope

Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), one of Europe's main contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is built and ready to…

13 years ago

Enterprise prototype took the skies for the first time in a sky show over Manhattan

Enterprise, NASA's original prototype for the space shuttle program, took to the skies today for the first time in nearly…

13 years ago

Coronal Mass Ejection: Massive Solar Explosion

The Sun had a massive solar explosion on April 16th. A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a massive burst of…

13 years ago

Dead stars will one day guide spacecrafts through the cosmos

Scientists claim that spacecrafts could one day navigate through the cosmos using a particular type of dead star as a…

13 years ago

Angry Birds Space, the newest game from Rovio developed in cooperation with NASA

Finland-based Rovio Entertainment, the creator of the Angry Birds franchise, has announced its newest game ”Angry Birds Space”, which was…

13 years ago

Startram maglev space train could deliver 4 million people a year into orbit by 2032

Startram is a proposed “space train” that could make cheaper journeys beyond Earth's atmosphere and will allow 4 million people a year…

13 years ago

Hackers gained full functional control of NASA computers in 2011

Paul K. Martin, NASA's inspector general, has told US lawmakers that hackers gained "full functional control" of key agency’s computers…

13 years ago

Earth is cooling itself as the clouds height has declined by 1% a year over the last decade

A new NASA-funded university study based on satellite data has found that Earth's clouds got a little lower by around…

13 years ago

Amazing images of solar tornado captured by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory

Solar Dynamics Observatory, a NASA satellite, captured amazing pictures of a gigantic tornado moving across the sun. The tornado is…

13 years ago

NASA set to pull the plug on its joint mission to Mars with ESA on ExoMars programme

NASA looks set to pull the plug on its joint missions to Mars with the European Space Agency (ESA), ExoMars…

13 years ago

Bus-sized asteroid is set to pass extremely close to Earth today

NASA announces that an asteroid the size of a bus is set to pass extremely close to Earth today. Asteroid…

13 years ago

How people are ready for 2012 Doomsday, the apocalypse foretold by the ancient Mayans

On December 21, 2012, the apocalypse foretold 5,125 years ago by the ancient Mayans will come to pass and the…

13 years ago

NASA’s twin Grail-A entered the Moon orbit

NASA has succeeded in putting the first of twin gravity mapping satellites (Gravity Recovery and Internal Laboratories) in orbit around…

13 years ago

NASA space telescope discovered Kepler-20f, the twin of Earth

NASA space telescope has detected Kepler-20f, a rocky planet the same size as the Earth orbiting a star like our…

13 years ago

NASA launched Curiosity to look for possible origins of life on Mars

Curiosity, the world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer has been launched today on a 354 million mile journey to Mars that hopes…

13 years ago

2005 YU55 asteroid whistled past Earth at 202,000 miles away

2005 YU55, an asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier whistled past Earth at a distance of 202,000 miles away,…

13 years ago

Satellite landed near Christmas Island, in a safe haven of Pacific Ocean.

The dead satellite fell into a part of the southern Pacific Ocean about as far from large land masses as…

13 years ago

Falling satellite is landing tonight or Saturday morning. NASA updates.

A new post on NASA's official Twitter account  said of the falling satellite: “Re-entry prediction now later than expected - tonight…

13 years ago

Satellite strikes Earth tonight and could land between UK and South America.

A satellite, weighing six tons and currently out-of-control, will strike Earth at 18,000 mph and could land almost anywhere this…

13 years ago