In NASA's human exploration plan for Mars, developed in 2009, nuclear thermal propulsion is the preferred option... READ MORE›
The last time I was thrilled by a rocket launch was seeing China's Shenzhou 10 spacecraft carrying our trio of taikonauts in 2013... READ MORE›
Xinyu Dai, an astrophysicist and professor at the University of Oklahoma, detected, for the first time ever, a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy... READ MORE›
NEOCam will furthermore help us study the origin of the solar system and enable asteroid exploration and exploitation... READ MORE›
DART is a NASA mission now in the preliminary design phase that will redirect a small asteroid moon around Didymos by simply hitting it... READ MORE›
Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mars have b... READ MORE›
There are much bigger asteroids careening through our solar system... READ MORE›
Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday... READ MORE›
NASA suggests that the Chang'e-4 spacecraft could launch in late 2018... READ MORE›
The category of rocky planets, also known as terrestrial planets, includes Earth, as well as Mercury, Venus and Mars in our own solar system... READ MORE›
The amusement park named the star, which is about 417 light-years from Earth, after itself Space World... READ MORE›
Scientists have seen black holes killing and swallowing stars... READ MORE›
Russia has lost contact with Angola's first national telecom satellite launched from the Baikonur space pad, its maker said Wednesday -- a fresh embarrassme... READ MORE›
Our solar system had nine planets until Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union, a decision that still stands... READ MORE›
Then his son, George W. Bush, also a Republican, proclaimed in 2004 that America would return to the Moon as part of a NASA program called Constellation... READ MORE›
America is going back to the Moon, and on to Mars, promised President Donald Trump on the 45th anniversary of the last Apollo mission... READ MORE›
The cigar-shaped body was first spotted in the solar system by researchers on the Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii in October, Breakthrough Listen reports... READ MORE›
NASA scientists are celebrating after firing a spacecraft's thrusters nearly four decades since they were last used. They wanted to reposition Voyager 1, which,... READ MORE›
NASA has nailed an engine test on a spacecraft 13 billion miles away. Last week, ground controllers sent commands to fire backup thrusters on Voyager 1, ou... READ MORE›
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft -- cruising interstellar space billions of miles from Earth -- was back on the right track Friday thanks to thrusters that were f... READ MORE›
Scientists call the new timelapse video the most complete global picture of life on Earth to date ... READ MORE›
Asteroids like Oumuamua enter our solar system about once a year, these scientists said... READ MORE›
LOS ANGELES - NASA on Saturday launched a next-generation satellite into space designed to monitor weather around the world and help improve forecasts... READ MORE›
Supermoons generally appear to be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons... READ MORE›
Human activities now rival the great forces of nature in driving changes to the Earth system, the paper said... READ MORE›
Those with a telescope could see Uranus all month.A Find Uranus,A theA seventh planet from the sun, by looking into the southeast sky... READ MORE›
Our solar system is a tiny part of a galaxy we call the Milky Way... READ MORE›
Its gravity would've messed up the orbits of the inner planets, the Earth, Venus, Mars, probably would've stripped the moon away completely, he said... READ MORE›
Before this discovery, astronomers had one solar system with four rocky planets to study--Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars... READ MORE›
Various people are 'predicting' that world will end on September 23 when another planet collides with Earth, say Nasa... READ MORE›
A 15-year-old intern in England has discovered a new planet, the same size as Jupiter, while carrying out work experience at a university... READ MORE›
This is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's JPL mission control for Nasa's Voyager spacecraft... READ MORE›
At the same time Mr Obama proposed cutting support for deep space exploration by 840 million next year... READ MORE›
The asteroid, known as 2012 TC4,A could come as close as 4,200 miles to Earth, NASA said... READ MORE›
Unlike us, tardigrades -- the world's most indestructible species -- will survive until the sun dies, according to a new Oxford University study released Friday... READ MORE›
If 16 Psyche did start out as a protoplanet, as Professor Elkins-Tanton expects, it would have had a run of very bad luck... READ MORE›
A rocky Earth-sized planet that circles a small, nearby star could be the most important world ever found beyond the solar system, astronomers say... READ MORE›
NASA knows of no asteroid or comet currently on a collision course with Earth, so the probability of a major collision is quite small, it said... READ MORE›
Ross 128 b is the second-closest planet to be detected outside the solar system with surface temperatures potentially similar to planet Earth... READ MORE›
Photo Professor Brian Cox came well prepared to tackle the topic of climate change on Q A last year... READ MORE›
Image courtesy of NASA JPL-Caltech and Space Science Institute Another world with an ocean is one of Jupiter's moons, Europa... READ MORE›
Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be the best place in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to NASA... READ MORE›
After years of listening to Americans debate the existence of data demonstrating climate change, it was comforting to come in here and smell it... READ MORE›
Is there life on jupiter's moons? juice may hold the key... READ MORE›
Rocky asteroids vary in size and are mainly found orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter... READ MORE›
That's the rumor that has gone viral now here are the facts it said in a press release entitled NASA There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth ... READ MORE›
On Wednesday, NASA will make an announcement about its Solar Probe Plus mission that will fly into the sun's atmosphere... READ MORE›
Keele University described Wagg's discovery as a hot Jupiter'' planet that tend to maintain tight orbits around its stars... READ MORE›
Professor Rao published 360 scientific papers on cosmic rays, space physics, and satellite and rocket technology... READ MORE›
IReporter Robert Ondrovic captured an image of the penumbral lunar eclipse in 2013 from Somers, New York, and shared some tips about how to photograph the event... READ MORE›
The announcement is the first time NASA has ever named a mission after a living scientist--not a bad birthday present for Parker, who turns 90 on June 10... READ MORE›
New Horizons has provided more accurate information on the size and scope of Pluto... READ MORE›
SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Tuesday unveiled his vision for making humans a multiplanetary species... READ MORE›
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