Space junk, severe illness and mistaken commands from mission control can all lead to disaster on ISS.
According to a report there is 55% chance that the ISS is hit by space debris and a 9% chance of catastrophic result over a 10-year...
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Professor Sam Braunstein of the University of New York’s Department of Computer Science and Dr. Arun Pati, of the Institute of Physics, Sainik School, Bhubaneshwar, India have established a new theory according to which quantum information can...
NASA has postponed the launch of their upcoming shuttle mission named Atlantis.
The space shuttle Atlantis suffered small dings on its external fuel tank when hail the size of golf balls fell on it.
Earlier the launch was set for March 15;...
Scientists have successfully completed the project on the South Pole Telescope and it began operations on the evening of February 16.
The telescope was focused at Jupiter.
The telescope is a bundle of equipment that can help astronomers learn...
Some researchers who are funded by NASA are refining a tool that can detect chemical evidences of life on the red planet.
The instrument called Urey, has already proved its worth in detecting traces of life in the most hostile places on Earth....
Iran has declared that the country has successfully their maiden rocket into space.
Mohsen Bahrami, the head of Iran’s Space Research Center, stated that the country has been successful in firing their first space missile or space rocket.
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Space rockets are the most fuel-eating engines that have ever been developed by man.
These engines can be compared to a car drinking fuel in first gear all the time.
Now some Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new engine that has five...
Living a lonely life away from the planet is not an easy task as it may look like.
Sometimes astronauts cannot bear this loneliness and get hyperactive. NASA also knows this and they have a procedure to deal with such emergencies.
The...
NASA and ESA are both confident of finding extraterrestrial life on Mars and another group of scientists that they may be successful in finding life on Jupiter’s icy moon named Europa.
Scientists have come to this conclusion amid the facts...
ESA’s Rosetta probe is about to have a very close encounter with the red planet.
The billion euro probe is one of the most expensive unmanned space vehicles. It is designed to rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasemenko in 2014.
After...
NASA has plans to setup a Lunar base by the year 2020.
This base will initially house astronauts for a period of seven days and after some journeys the period will be increased to 2 weeks, then 2 months and finally a period of six...
Till now NASA had to control most of the movements that were made by the two rovers on Mars.
Now the space agency has uploaded new software on both the rovers, that is, Spirit and Opportunity. Now both these rovers will be able to control and...
In astronomy we are talking about distances that are measured in terms of light years. What is the thing that restricts us from trying and going there…?
No, it’s not the threat of aliens or asteroids, the biggest threat and the biggest risk...
Scientists from all over the world are trying to find another Earth in the endless universe.
Researchers like Robert Zubrin have developed plans to make other planets like Mars inhabitable.
About Titan
Titan is the largest moon...
European Space Agency’s Integral observatory has helped astronomers in constructing the largest catalogue of individual gamma-ray emitting celestial bodies.
Integral began its operations in 2003 and since then it has discovered 421 gamma-ray...
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