New Delhi : This year’s most powerful solar flare  erupted from the Sun on Thursday (April 11), and it’s effect  may reach Earth on Saturday. The solar fare sparked  a temporary radio blackout on Earth, NASA officials said. The solar flare occurred at 3:16 a.m. EDT (0716 GMT)  on thursday and  it was registered as […]

Moscow : Russia’s space agency Roscosmos may join NASA’s ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and place it in high lunar orbit for exploration, its head Vladimir Popovkin said. “[It is] a very interesting project, which NASA proposes to carry out jointly with Roscosmos specialists,” Popovkin told Rossiiskaya Gazeta newspaper. “We could send a manned […]

Cape Canaveral : NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the planet ever had ingredients for life, drilled its first bit of powder from inside a potentially water-formed ancient rock, scientists said on Wednesday. The robotic geology station, which landed inside a giant impact basin on August 6 for a two-year mission, transferred about […]

New Delhi : Call it an ultimate tech art: NASA has turned Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, nearly 240,000 miles away. A first in laser communication, the laser signal was fired from an installation in Maryland, USA, and as […]

Washington : If you’re one of the people across the globe worried about Friday’s so-called “Mayan apocalypse” and what some say will be the end of the world, you can keep watch over the heavens online for impending signs of doomsday. Scientists at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and elsewhere have said […]

Washington : Two NASA moon probes, designed to help scientists learn more about the composition of the moon, will be intentionally crashed into a mountain near the moon’s North Pole, the US space agency has said. Mission engineers need to guide the twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes known as Ebb and Flow […]

Cape Canaveral : NASA plans to crash a pair of small robotic science probes into the moon next week after a successful year-long mission to learn what lies beneath the lunar surface, officials said on Thursday. The twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL, spacecraft will make suicidal plunges on Monday into a mountain […]

Washington: NASA, the national space agency of the US, on Thursday released a black and white satellite imagery of India this Diwali night, cautioning people against the fake image in circulation on the social media. “On November 12, 2012, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite captured this nighttime view […]

Cape kyanaveral: NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving, NASA scientists said. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence — images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels — is the first of its […]

Pasadena, California: The Curiosity has landed. With pride, relief and exhilaration, NASA engineers and officials erupted in cheers and hugs early Monday morning with confirmation that the Curiosity, a car-sized, plutonium-powered robotic rover, had landed safely on the surface of Mars. “Touchdown confirmed,” Allen Chen, the engineer in the control room providing commentary, said at […]