The Kennedy space centre is again ready to witness the launching of space shuttle Endeavour. After the Columbia disaster in February 2003, in which NASA lost it’s all seven crew members, NASA responded by grounding all shuttles for two and half..
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Though it happened a bit too late, but ultimately the good old spacesuit gets a much needed makeover. Professor Dava Newman of MIT aeronautics has come out with BioSuit, a new design for spacesuit that's far sleeker and lightweight than the outfits...
Ever wondered if there is ice or as a matter of fact water ice on Moon or Mars? Well, if you have been pondering over this question for a while, chances are that your question will be answered soon enough. In order to look for 'water ice' in space,...
Are we alone in this Universe? This is the most fundamental question of space science. Not only scientists, common people also show significant excitement towards the existence of intelligent species in another planet, just like us. Scientists deploy...
Delivering the best of its services, Progress 24 cargo craft will be completing some important chores relating to the ISS's waste material rejection program. The cargo craft is destined to carry the discarded hardware material and various other...
When stars more than eight times the size of Sun have consumed all their fuel reserves they end their lives in an enormous explosion termed as Supernova. After a supernova the top layers of the star are forcefully thrown out into space at speeds...
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has confirmed water vapor in the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet. The planet named HD 189733b is at a distance of 64 light years from our Sun in constellation Vulpecula and orbits very close to its parent...
Storms on Mars have created all sorts of troubles for the twin rovers on the planet. These dust storms have obscured sunlight and have kept the twin rovers hungry for some power.
NASA wanted to move Opportunity into the giant Victoria Crater, a...
Universe as I always say is a cloud of mysteries and not many of these have yet been answered by astronomers. To answer these questions one has to go back in time. No, I am not talking about a time machine, as the best way to go back in time is to...
GTC or the Gran Telescopio Canarias is the world’s largest telescope that has been under construction for seven years. Till now the telescope is not fully complete, but complete enough to look into the Universe for the first time.
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