'Man to Mars' is a dream for all of us on Earth. NASA is assessing the feasibility of adding a crew to the first integrated flight of the agency's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1). It is building new deep space capabilities to take humans farther into the solar system, to Mars.
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NASA 's Cassini is tracking several small, persistent objects as it travels and continues its weekly ring-grazing orbit. It discovered these objects while diving just past the outside of Saturn's F-ring.
The images captured by Cassini's narrow-angle camera show two such objects. Cassini captured these objects on Feb. 5, 2017. A team of scientists at Space Science Institute in Boulder,...
At about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles) away from our solar system, an international team of astronomers (NASA and the European Southern Observatory team) have discovered seven Earth-sized worlds, which have been spotted orbiting closely around a tiny, a Jupiter-sized ultra-cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 in the constellation of Aquarius, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal...
'Dawn' NASA's mission to the dwarf planet, Ceres has made a stunning discovery. It has found evidence for organic material on Ceres. Scientists found the organic material in and around Ernutet, a crater in the northern-hemisphere. It covers approximately 1000 square kilometers, in and around the crater. A very small area in Inamahari Crater, which is about 250 miles away...
We’re taught in primary school that there are seven continents exist on the globe: Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. However, some geologists do believe that Europe and Asia are into a supercontinent, known as Eurasia. But according to a new study, a team of New Zealand geologists have identified a new concealed underwater continent...
SpaceX on Sunday launched the first private rocket from NASA's historic launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA closely monitored the activities in order to learn more about SpaceX. The California-based company aims to fly US astronauts on their rockets.
The 70-meter tall Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. This...
An international team of astronomers led by University of Hertfordshire have discovered 60 new planets, which orbit stars that are close to our Earth’s solar system, including a rocky “super Earth.” The team of scientists found evidence of an additional 54 potential planets, bringing the prospective discovery of new worlds to 114.
The team have announced that they have also...
SpaceX's upcoming Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center will carry a host of science experiments to the International Space Station, aside from the SAGE III instrument to study Earth's atmosphere.
They include:
•The Lightning Imagining Sensor, or LIS, will sample lightning over a wider geographic area than any previous instrument. Lightning strikes occur around the globe at a rate...
The term “Snow Moon” refers to the full moon in the month of February, so called because the heaviest snow usually falls within this month.
Two celestial events – a penumbral lunar eclipse and the full “Snow Moon” – were visible to the naked eye across the world on February 10 and into the early hours of February 11.
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