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The entire United States will fall into shadow as a solar eclipse passes on August 21 (Photo: AFP)

Solar eclipse offers millions a chance at citizen science

NASA is reminding people to take eye safety precautions because it is never safe to look at the Sun during an eclipse.

22 July 2017 8:33 AM IST

Flight Analog Program Manager, Lisa Spence, toasts with sparkling grape juice the HERA XIII crew for a successful end to the first 45-day mission. Credits: NASA

Goodbye HERA, Hello Sleep: NASA's HERA XIII crew returns home

This mission was the first of its kind to last 45 days, as well as incorporate sleep reduction for research purposes.

20 July 2017 10:51 AM IST

This diagram illustrates the positions of Mars, Earth and the sun during a period that occurs approximately every 26 months, when Mars passes almost directly behind the sun from Earths perspective. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

NASA to refrain sending commands to Mars orbiters

Data will keep coming from Mars to Earth, although loss or corruption of some bits is anticipated and the data will be...

18 July 2017 9:31 AM IST

California-based SpaceX had hoped to resume Falcon 9 flights as early as November, then in mid-December, before pushing the date to January 2017.

Weather delays resumption of SpaceX's rocket launches

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded September 1 in Cape Canaveral.

9 Jan 2017 8:29 AM IST

This is a map showing the permanently shadowed regions (blue) that cover about three percent of the moons south pole. (Photo: NASA)

Solar storms trigger sparks, melt soil on Moon: NASA

The Moon has almost no atmosphere, so its surface is exposed to the harsh space environment.

9 Jan 2017 7:51 AM IST

The latest imagery also details a group of three small, not yet released icebergs at the north end of the embayment. (Photo: NASA)

NASA unveils stunning images of massive Antarctic Iceberg

The satellite imagery is a composite of Landsat 8 as it passed on July 14 and July 21 and shows that the main berg,...

31 July 2017 12:54 PM IST

Consensus has long been that the Earths core is about 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, with sulphur, oxygen and silicon prime candidates for the other five percent

NASA balloons to study total solar eclipse, life beyond Earth

A research group at NASA's Ames Research Center is seizing the opportunity to conduct a low cost experiment on 34 of the...

31 July 2017 9:48 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

NASA to observe asteroid flyby to test planetary defense tech

Scientists are certain it will come no closer than 6,800 kilometres from the surface of Earth.

31 July 2017 8:57 AM IST

Saturn (Photo: NASA)

Possible key ingredients of life discovered on Saturn's Moon

NASA finds Moon of Saturn has chemical that could form Membranes.'

30 July 2017 10:26 AM IST

The unmanned Cygnus resupply ship operated by the US company OrbitalATK is show making a delivery to the International Space Station in October 2016 (Photo: AFP/NASA)

Three-man crew reaches space station as US boosts research

The men will join two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut already aboard the station, a project of 15 nations.

29 July 2017 8:34 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

Scientists developing deep space habitat for NASA

The prototype will integrate technologies to keep astronauts safe while onboard and operate the spacecraft autonomously...

27 July 2017 4:28 PM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

NASA builds first prototype for deep space habitat

The prototype will integrate evolving technologies to keep astronauts safe while onboard.

27 July 2017 3:46 PM IST