The US space agency has developed high-tech cages to transport rodents from Earth to the International Space Station (ISS) to enable researchers to study the long-term effects of...
US private firm SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon capsule undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), to return to Earth. The capsule is carrying more than 1,580 kilograms of science...
NASA has expressed concerns about possible contamination of the Martian surface due colonization of micro-organisms riding with the space-crafts sent from Earth. These bacteria could contaminate celestial bodies...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/ NASA has discovered the first Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” of another star. The newfound planet, called “Kepler-186f”, was first spotted by NASA’s Kepler space telescope and circles...
The NASA’s Kepler mission announced the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified planets orbit 305 stars, revealed multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. This discovery...
NASA scientists have found signs of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. Though some previous studies have also reported the presence of atmospheric water on a...
As per a research team from the US space agency NASA, granite – an igneous rock common on Earth— could be found in abundance on Mars. The research backed...
In a bid to dismantle the ancient mystery of Mar’s radical climate change, US space agency NASA launched robotic explorer MAVEN rocketed toward the red planet. The unmanned spacecraft...
