NASA teams up with ESA to send humans to Moon by 2021
The European Space Agency (ESA) and aerospace company Airbus have agreed with NASA to build a module for a second, manned mission that will fly around the moon as early as 2021, which will be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
Feb 10, 2017, 14:16 PM IST
NASA probe all geared up to search for 'rare' asteroids sharing Earth's orbit
While heading towards asteroid Bennu, the NAS has claimed that its 'numero uno' mission to return a sample of an asteroid to the Earth will also search for “Trojan” asteroids.
Dec 13, 2016, 11:28 AM IST
1000 asteroids heading towards Earth; conspiracy theorists claim end of the world is near! - Watch video
It is being said that these asteroids are travelling near Earth at a speed of 60,000 miles per hour.
Oct 12, 2016, 16:32 PM IST
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft lifts off to sample asteroid Bennu - Watch!
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifted off at 7:05 p.m. EDT Thursday from Cape Canaveral on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
Sep 09, 2016, 09:50 AM IST
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft all set for 3D mapping during course of flight
The mission is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Jun 30, 2016, 19:03 PM IST
Comets, asteroids made Mars habitable
Turns out, massive bombardment that occurred some four billion years ago by comets and asteroids as large as West Virginia may have made Mars more likely to support life.
Apr 06, 2016, 10:18 AM IST
NASA's 'flying' telescope begins studying asteroids, stars
SOFIA’s instruments observe infrared energy - one part of the electromagnetic spectrum which includes visible light, x-rays, radio waves and others.
Feb 22, 2016, 12:37 PM IST
How 'burning' asteroids dispatch shooting stars to Earth
This study suggests that the parent objects were completely destroyed when they came too close to the Sun - leaving behind streams of meteors but no parent NEOs.
Feb 18, 2016, 12:11 PM IST
NASA programme to protect Earth from asteroids
NASA, however, said that it has an asteroid impact and deflection mission concept in the works with the European Space Agency.
Jan 17, 2016, 19:19 PM IST
Giant comets may pose danger to life on Earth
Known severe upsets of the terrestrial environment and interruptions in the progress of ancient civilisations, together with our growing knowledge of interplanetary matter in near-Earth space, indicate the arrival of a centaur around 30,000 years ago.
Dec 25, 2015, 17:11 PM IST
NASA booster for deeper space mission including Mars
In a bid to bolster its effort to prepare humans for deeper space missions, NASA engineers have refined the key thermal protection system of Orion - new exploration spacecraft designed to ferry astronauts to asteroid and Mars.
Nov 20, 2015, 11:15 AM IST
Is the world going to end in 2015?
The signs of the time are simply going stronger – earthquakes, storms are becoming frequent and fiercer.
Nov 04, 2015, 13:35 PM IST
Asteroids moon's main water supply: Study
Water reserves found on the moon are the result of asteroids acting as "delivery vehicles" and not of falling comets as was previously thought, new research has found.
Oct 01, 2015, 15:49 PM IST
NASA building space shotgun to blast asteroids
NASA is developing world's first space shotgun that can blast asteroids into small pieces for collection as samples when a robotic spacecraft reaches near one such space rock in the near future.
Sep 21, 2015, 17:12 PM IST
Traces of meteorite that hit Sweden 460 million years ago found
Researchers have found traces of two simultaneous meteorite impacts in the Swedish county of Jamtland - first evidence of a twin strike that occurred around 460 million years ago.
Sep 12, 2015, 13:46 PM IST
Asteroids pounding fractured Moon's upper crust: Scientists
Nearly four billion years ago, the moon took a severe beating as a barrage of asteroids pelted its surface, carving out craters and opening deep fissures in its crust, scientists have revealed.
Sep 11, 2015, 18:23 PM IST
Lunar surface as fractured as possible
As per a new study, the far side of the moon is as fractured as possible.
Sep 11, 2015, 11:15 AM IST
