NASA's Kepler Mission discovers bigger, older cousin to Earth
California, July 24 (IBNS) NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone†around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth."
UN and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launch #whyspacematters photo contest
New York, Jun 17 (IBNS): The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and United States astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on board the International Space Station, today launched a global photography competition to highlight the importance of outer space for sustainable development on Earth.
NASA completes MESSENGER Mission with expected impact on Mercury's surface
Washington, May 1 (IBNS):A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury's surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet's surface.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission passes critical milestone
California, Apr 1 (IBNS) NASA said its 'groundbreaking science mission' to retrieve a sample from an ancient space rock has moved closer to fruition.
NASA's deep-space spacecraft Orion ready for test flight
Washington, Nov 1 (IBNS): The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) new Mars-bound spacecraft "Orion" is ready to take-off for a test flight December 4, media reported.
NASA'S Chandra Observatory identifies impact of cosmic chaos on star birth
Washington, Oct 27 (IBNS) The same phenomenon that causes a bumpy airplane ride, turbulence, may be the solution to a long-standing mystery about stars' birth, or the absence of it, according to a new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
NASA's newest Mars mission spacecraft enters orbit around Red Planet
California, Sept 22 (IBNS) NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere as never done before. MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars.
NASA's Orion Spacecraft nears completion, ready for fueling
California, Sept 12 (IBNS) NASA is making steady progress on its Orion spacecraft, completing several milestones this week at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the capsule's first trip to space in December.
NASA selects instruments to track climate Impact on vegetation
Washington, July 31 (IBNS) NASA has selected proposals for two new instruments that will observe changes in global vegetation from the International Space Station.
NASA poke hole in Black Hole 'Doughnut' theory
Washington, May 23 (IBNS) A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.
Forensics uncover planetary disks in NASA archive
Washington, Apr 26 (IBNS) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database.
NASA telescopes find close, cold neighbor of Sun
Washington, Apr 26 (IBNS) NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth's North Pole.
NASA satellites show drought may take toll on Congo rainforest
Washington, Apr 24 (IBNS) A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade.
NASA discovers Earth-size planet in 'habitable zone'
Washington, Apr 18 (IBNS) Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun.