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Junos principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.

NASA's Juno probe set to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot

NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot on July 10.

3 July 2017 8:21 AM IST

NASA unveils stunning image of haze-covered Jupiter

The Gemini telescope is providing high-resolution images to help guide its exploration of the giant planet.

2 July 2017 8:49 PM IST

Humans are woefully unprepared for a surprise asteroid or comet, a NASA scientist warned.

NASA developing first asteroid deflection mission

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is moving from concept development to preliminary design phase

2 July 2017 2:07 PM IST

The discovery was made through an analysis of images and data collected by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft. (Photo:NASA)

Underground ocean found on Pluto, likely slushy with ice

Scientists have found a hidden ocean beneath the frozen surface containing as much water as all of Earth's seas.

17 Nov 2016 8:14 AM IST

US Navy divers and other personnel practicing for recovery of Orion on its return from deep space missions, using a test version of the crew module (Photo: AFP)

NASA delays deep-space Orion test to 2019 due to costs

The first test flight of NASA's Orion capsule, designed to one day carry people to Mars, has been delayed until 2019

13 May 2017 7:40 AM IST

Scientists using Nasa telescopes have detected a strong water signature on Neptune-sized planet.

Signs of water spotted on Neptune-like planet

Finding can help understand birth of planetary systems.

13 May 2017 6:25 AM IST

A trail of smoke can be seen from the 2013 eruption of the Pavlof volcano, which spewed an ash cloud 20,000 feet into the atmosphere that traveled southeastward over the North Pacific Ocean. The volcanos that may have contributed to snowball Earth spanned almost 2000 miles and erupted continuously for years. (Image courtesy of NASA)

NASA captures strange lights flashing from Earth

One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet.

16 May 2017 2:35 PM IST

Christina Morrison presented her research at the 2017 Arizona Space Grant Symposium in Tempe. This fall she will begin graduate studies in environmental engineering at one of the several universities where she has been accepted. (Photo credit: Irma Perez)

Doing laundry in Outer Space? She's working on a solution for that

UA College of Engineering senior Christina Morrison is seeking answers to a Earth problem for space travelers: how to...

14 May 2017 8:44 PM IST

A team of six engineering students from the city will represent India at the prestigous Human Exploration Rover Challenge organised by NASA.

These city kids are all set to raise India's flag at NASA!

Competing for a coveted prize at Nasa's fourth Human Exploration Rover Challenge, the team travelled to Huntsville,...

27 March 2017 12:08 AM IST

Miles Soloman, an A-level student at Tapton school in Sheffield (Photo: BBC)

British teen corrects NASA data error

A 17-year-old schoolboy in the UK has pointed out an error in the data recorded by NASA on the International Space...

25 March 2017 8:03 PM IST

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the International Space Stations Cupola observatory, one of ESAs contributions to the orbital outpost, on November 22, 2016 (Photo: AFP)

Spacewalk a success for French, US astronauts

The goal for Friday's outing was to prepare for the installation of the second of two parking spots for space taxis

25 March 2017 12:54 PM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Donald Trump plans man on Mars by 2030s

The Nasa Transition Authorisation Act gives the agency $19.5 billion for 2018.

23 March 2017 2:29 AM IST