NASA’s moon plans are getting shape every day and with each passing day, we can hear new participants in the mission. In the past, we been hearing different countries were involved in their own missions and competition was high as each space agency...
The first geologists on Mars, Yeh, right no humans of flesh and bone, but robot automatons of metal and wheels and now nearing the third anniversary of their landings and Hey, they are getting smarter as they get older. Yeh, you guessed it right,...
Black holes have captured our imagination and become the source of many science fiction stories and scientists have always tried to solve one or the other mysteries related to the issues of Black Hole. Scientists now believed that they know a big deal...
No doubt, NASA will return people to the moon and the mission is not just to return to the surface. It is to learn a huge amount about the moon also what the moon tells us about the early history of the solar system and not to forget He-3 that is...
The Corot stands for "Convection Rotation and planetary Transits", a spacecraft has launched today from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to search for another “Earth” in the solar system.
It is developed by the French space agency, CNES that is...
The laws of orbital mechanics press rocket designers to seek potential launch sites as close to the Equator as possible. The space vehicle launched due East anywhere on the Equator can use Earth rotation to its full advantage, maximizing the payload...
It is interesting to note how different researchers puts the Sun due to its unusual behavior of producing the solar wind electric field. Some say--- The Sun is like a snake that sheds its skin while others assume that the sun is a mighty chef that...
Discovery and seven astronauts, fresh from an extended visit to the International Space Station, are set to return to the Earth this afternoon but it remains unclear where they will land. NASA managers may have to decide between three imperfect...
The bodies of our Solar System have orbited continuously around the Sun since their formation, but they have not always been there, and conditions will not always be the same as they are today. The Story of the Solar System explains how our Solar...
The first object that emerged after the Big Bang has left scientists debating on what that might be! – Is it the cosmic glow, the first star or quasar? Analyzing the infrared radiation from deep space, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the...
The new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will soon be getting the Observatory Control System software, as its design study has just been completed by the Cambridge-based scientific software consultancy Observatory Sciences.
With the help of...
It's exciting that every planet and moon that we look at in our solar system is not only strange, but stranger than we expect. That's a lot of fun, actually.
The mysteries like the planet Saturn’s rings and its moon Titan and its atmosphere, is...
We have long been wondering to know if we are alone in the universe. One can also say that in the process of finding answer to this question we made advances in the field of astronomy. The search for exoplanets has always fascinated the space...
Can you imagine NASA to become just one of many customers of commercial space transportation services?
However, this is something that will happen after NASA plans to retire the space shuttle fleet after 2010 and it could, and should have profound...
We're becoming more and more reliant on space technologies in our everyday lives and are hatching ambitious plans to explore our outer space surroundings, but nature has a mind of its own and if we don’t understand what it is up to or how to avoid...
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