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What has given birth to our solar system? In a hunt for clues to it, the need to explore an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter has been zeroed-in. This is what the NASA scientists felt and is all set to launch the Dawn spacecraft tomorrow from...
Illustrations Courtesy of NASA, Boeing [inset]
Do you know, for every pound of payload headed for the lunar surface, NASA has to invest on hundreds more pounds of hardware and propellant during low Earth orbit?
Not just that! Even many a times, it.
It seems that everyone is talking about the Moon these days -- not just how to get there, but what to do once landed there! NASA is planning to reach the moon and set up base, including a pair of small and pressurized rovers with range of nearly 600...
Endeavour mission, which has been in news all the year with some bad experiences, is once again in news.
This time Hurricane Dean has forced the mission control center to cut short the mission for a day early landing of the crew as the increasing..
Universe seems to hide infinite mysteries and gifts to amaze us at any instant of time.
Robert Rutledge of McGill University in Montrea, unfolding another secret, spotted an isolated Neutron Star, which is thought to be a distance of 250 to...
Adding one more headache to NASA, Rick Mastracchio had to cut short his latest spacewalk after he noticed a hole in his left glove. NASA asked Mastracchio and his fellow spacewalker Clay Anderson to return to the space station airlock soon after a...
Astronauts from NASA's space shuttle Endeavour revealed on Sunday, using pointed laser and cameras fixed on the six feet robotic arm, that the gouge torn out of shuttle's protective tiles is more than an inch deep. Teacher-astronaut Barbara...
After some delays and controversies, Mission STS-118 got off to a brilliant start as the seven-member crew headed into space in space shuttle Endeavour at planned 2336 BST on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Endeavour's...
Collision or merger of two galaxies, mostly one large galaxy and several small ones is common in the Universe. Astronomers have also observed some major mergers among the pair of galaxy similar in size.
But, US team of astronomers observed one of..
On a wonderful Saturday morning, NASA’s Phoenix blasted off at 5:26 a.m. EDT on a 422 million miles journey to Mars. A Delta II rocket lit up the sky over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida as it carried the Phoenix spacecraft on the...
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