NASA has released pictures of Martian dust; the new pictures were taken using Phoenix's on-board atomic force microscope. These pictures show the dust particle which is about 1 mm, is representative of the dust that cloaks Mars. Also, because of this dust Mars’s semblance is red, and its sky ...

The US space agency NASA has abandoned its plans to fly any new spaceship by 2013. Earlier, NASA had vision that it will fly astronauts to the International Space Station aboard a new spaceship called Orion as early as September 2013. The decision has come for lack of funding. The expected funding ...

Chandra Wickramasinghe, a leading expert in astrobiology has said that there are evidence of life in Mars. According to him the discovery of liquid water on Mars combined with earlier discoveries of organic substances in a meteorite that came from Mars, and also of methane in the Martian atmosphere ...

NASA has claimed that there is definite proof of water in red planet. According to Boynton of ‘Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer Instrument on Phoenix’ there is water in the planet. However, this is the first time that water has been tasted and touched in the planet. Earlier, the ...

Even though the solar eclipse on August 1, 2008 will be visible only in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia and China from 1530 IST to 1745 IST, people elsewhere also can watch it and that too live. This is because the National Aeronautics and Space ...

According to the new findings, Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has a huge lake filled with liquid gas. Also, the liquid is expected to be methane, and ethane. The study has been carried out jointly by NASA with University of Arizona. The huge lake spreads in 7800 squire miles called ‘Ontario ...

The scientists have long held that the various seas on the moon were dry. But a recent study published in the Nature recently proves the assumption wrong. In this study, geologist Alberto Saal and his team of researchers from the Brown University have mentioned that they have the proof of water ...

The Megha Tropiques satellite will be jointly launched in 2009 by India and France, but other countries will also be allowed to access data from it. The satellite will be used to understand climate change and the tropical weather phenomena including monsoons. Officials inform that this Indo-French ...

Instead of wooing your sweetheart with promises of stars and the moon, talk about taking him / her on a space tour because the latter at least now seems possible. This is because Britain has unveiled its biggest ever space rocket Nova 2 that targets (if all goes as planned) to take tourists ...

Chandrayaan-1, which is the first unmanned mission to the moon being conducted by India, will be launched in September at the earliest, a senior official has informed. The official added that the precise date for this unique exploratory mission of moon will be declared the coming month. The ...

The NASA research centre has tied up with Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and MIT for the development of first in its kind a planet-searching satellite. A press release from MIT says that the planet-searching satellite would have the potential to discover hundreds of ...

Mars Probe Phoenix after two weeks efforts has successfully dug Martian soil for the first time. Soon after the digging of the soil it started analyzing its compound character including the probability of availability of water in the planet. The amount of the sample is 200 ML and is topped by a ...

The Milky Way galaxy for decades has been pictured as having four spiral arms. The latest images however reveal that the Milky Way just has two of its spiral arms now. Robert Benjamin of the University of Wisconsin revealed that the Scientists are not proposing a change in the position of the arms ...

A pair of spacewalking astronauts floated into open space at about 11.30 am on Tuesday, to prepare Japan’s new research lab for installation on the orbital outpost as well as to retrieve critical inspection boom needed to check shuttle Discovery for damage. It was veteran spacewalker Michael ...

Space shuttle Discovery and a crew of seven blasted off Saturday and reached orbit en route to the International Space Station to deliver the second large piece of a Japanese research laboratory and fix a malfunctioning lavatory. The shuttle’s trip to the space station will take two days. ...

Nine months after taking off from Earth, the spacecraft Phoenix Lander is all set to touch down on planet Mars. But while doing this successfully, the spacecraft must survive a sweltering and perilous descent in order to scoop up water ice that is believed to be buried under an arctic plain. ...

If NASA’s Phoenix Spacecraft lands on the icy fringe of Mars’s North Pole on Sunday, May 25, 2008, then the NASA scientists can very well resume their quest of search of life on the planet. Landing on Mars has not been an easy task to face and so far only about half of the attempts have ...

The UK’s Ministry of Defence, for the very first time, has released secret files containing information about Unidentified Flying objects (UFOs). Those interested can download these files, which span the time period 1978 to 1987, from the website of the National Archives. One will find in it ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of USA has, for decades, maintained a tight lease over the building and operation of its spacecrafts on which it sent its astronauts and hardware into space. Though it is true that work was also farmed out to a number of private contractors, ...

A minor planet in the solar system (5178 No CD4) has been named after Kollam (Kerala) based Professor, Sainudeen Pattazhy. The honor has been given to him in admiration of his environmental research and campaigns. He was informed about this by Jet Propulsions Laboratory of the California Institute ...

The Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO), after its successful launch of ten satellites, has announced to start its ambitious Moon Mission Chandrayaan-I in the third quarter of 2008. Indian Space Scientists are planning to launch a 500 kg satellite that will orbit the moon for two years ...

Giove-B, the experimental satellite was launched on Sunday, April 27, 2008 from Kazakhstan in order to test technologies to be used in the Galileo system. The second and final test of the satellite is aimed to successfully operationalize Galileo Navigation system, designed to rival the American GPS ...

The Indian Space and Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched ten satellites from its latest Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9), a feat which has set a world record. India’s Space and Research organization is still a small and baby organization, merely 35 years old compared to ...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will launch 10 satellites at one go on April 28, 2008. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will carry a mini satellite IMS-1, Cartosat- 2A, a remote sensing satellite and eight other nano satellites. IMS-1 weighs 83 kgs and it will operate at an ...

An Esa-linked team has grown Marigold flowers in crushed rock very similar to the lunar surface, without the use of any plant food. Many hold growing plants on the Moon as an indication that there is possibility of humans dwelling there. But the theory is not an official objective of Esa. Infact, ...

India will be launching its ‘Chandrayan’ mission to explore the moon in the third quarter of this year. It was informed by Mr Prithviraj Chavan, a minister of state in the Prime Minister’s Office. The minister said that the objective of Chandrayan will be to study the ...

The smallest planet located outside the solar system, 30 light years away from earth has been discovered by a team of Spanish astronomers. The Spanish researchers announced the discovery of the smallest extrasolar planet on Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The planet ’GJ 436T’ was found by a ...

Yi So - Yeon became the first South Korean astronaut to blast off into space today (April 8) headed towards the International Space Station (ISS). She is very much excited about her mission and hopes that this marks an important landmark in history.
 
Yi So - Yeon, took off along with two ...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is all set to launch a remote sensing satellite this month. The satellite will be equipped with high-resolution camera and advanced scientific instruments. The satellite named Cartosat -2A, is slated to be launched on April 28 and will be used for urban ...