NASA InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to learn what lies beneath
Washington, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident.
NASA, Northrop Grumman launch space station, national lab cargo
Washington, Nov 17 (IBNS): Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa
New York, Nov 13 (IBNS): Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.
Astronomers find first evidence of possible Moon outside solar system
Washington, Oct 6 (IBNS): Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system.
Now is a ‘pivotal time for climate action’ says UN chief, looking to ozone layer gains
New York, Sept 17 (IBNS): With record-breaking heat once again enveloping the earth this year, United Nations Secretary-GeneralAntónio Guterres said it was also “a pivotal time for climate action”, marking the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, on Sunday.
NASA, ULA launch mission to track Earth's changing ice
Washington, Sept 17 (IBNS): NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. EDT Saturday, embarking on its mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen reaches with unprecedented accuracy.
NASA unveils 'before and after' images of flood-hit Kerala
Washington, Aug 28 (IBNS): NASA has unveiled images where it has shown the destruction caused by floods in the Indian city of Kerala.
Canada: NASA chiefs discover water on the moon
Ottawa, Aug 23 (IBNS): National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently confirmed an abundance of water on the Moon situated in hundreds of patches of ice deposited in the north and south poles, media reports said.
NASA gets up close with Greenland's melting ice
Washington, Aug 22 (IBNS): With a new research plane and a new base to improve its chances of outsmarting Atlantic hurricanes, NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign takes to the sky this week for its third year of gathering data on how the ocean around Greenland is melting its glaciers.
NASA confirms ice at the Moon’s poles
Washington, Aug 21 (IBNS): In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.
NASA finds Amazon drought leaves long legacy of damage
Washington, Aug 13 (IBNS): A single season of drought in the Amazon rainforest can reduce the forest's carbon dioxide absorption for years after the rains return, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
NASA, ULA launch Parker Solar probe on historic journey to touch Sun
Washington, Aug 12 (IBNS): Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission.
NASA to name astronauts assigned to first Boeing, SpaceX flights
Washington, Aug 3 (IBNS): NASA will announce on Friday the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, and begin a new era in American spaceflight.
Saturn and Mars team up to make their closest approaches to Earth in 2018
Washington, July 27 (IBNS): NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed Saturn and Mars near their closest approaches to Earth in June and July 2018.
Chandra may have first evidence of a young star devouring a planet
Washington, July 19 (IBNS): Scientists may have observed, for the first time, the destruction of a young planet or planets around a nearby star.