Possible Methane Sources and Sinks Source: NASA This illustration portrays possible ways that methane might be added to Mars’ atmosphere (sources) and removed from the atmosphere (sinks). NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has […]
Possible Methane Sources and Sinks Source: NASA This illustration portrays possible ways that methane might be added to Mars’ atmosphere (sources) and removed from the atmosphere (sinks). NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has […]
Could there finally be tangible evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe? After sifting through reams of X-ray data, scientists in EPFL’s Laboratory of Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) […]
Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of Curiosity’s finds in Gale […]
The Predator drone is an iconic symbol of America’s current wars, and it’s younger — but bigger — Predator-B sibling often goes by the ominous name Reaper. In NASA’s hands, the Predator-B […]
The changeover from Expedition 41 to 42 on the International Space Station is now complete. Almost two weeks ago, on 10 November 2014, three members of the space station’s crew returned to […]
The pioneering lander Philae completed its primary mission of exploring the comet’s surface and returned plenty of data before depleted batteries forced it to go silent, the European Space Agency said Saturday. […]
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A timeline of the most crucial activities related to separation, descent and landing on 11 and 12 November. It has been compiled with inputs from the Flight Control Team at ESOC and […]
NASA Signs Lease with Planetary Ventures LLC (a Google Company) for Use of Moffett Airfield and Restoration of Hangar One After years of using Moffett Field as the home and launch pad for […]
The new movie “Interstellar” is set in a not-so-distant future, but distant enough that they’ve managed to build something still elusive in 2014: a spaceship that can travel between solar systems. Such […]
Virgin Galactic’s suborbital space plane SpaceShipTwo suffered a serious malfunction during a rocket-powered test flight over Mojave, California, today (Oct. 31) resulting in the loss of the spacecraft. One of the two […]
A private SpaceX Dragon capsule dropped into the Pacific Ocean today (Oct. 25, 2014), returning almost 2 tons of cargo and science experiments to Earth from the International Space Station. The unmanned […]
In the cosmic equivalent of a hole-in-one, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) last week guided Mangalyaan, a 1365kg space vessel 680 million kilometres away from Earth and successfully placed it in […]
How India Achieved the Cheapest-Ever Interplanetary Mission to Mars Late Wednesday night, India made history by becoming the first nation to successfully enter Mars’s orbit on its first attempt. Indian Space Research […]