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Nasa's Venus rover designs inspired by WWI tanks look more like Mad Max than Star Trek
No spacecraft as yet has been able to withstand the extreme conditions of Venus for more than 24 hours.
India Ashok Aug 28, 2017
Nasa powers up Orion spacecraft that will carry man to the moon, Mars and beyond for the first time
Orion is destined to take humans "father into space than we've ever gone", officials said.
Hyacinth Mascarenhas Aug 23, 2017
The moon has no water, say scientists who analysed lunar rock brought back by Apollo 16 astronauts
A moon rock brought back in 1972 has been reanalysed by scientists, revealing that our satellite has no water.
India Ashok Aug 23, 2017
Solar eclipse 2017: Nasa's most stunning photos of the eclipse from Earth and space
Nasa also released a video of the ISS flying right in front of the sun during the eclipse.
India Ashok Aug 22, 2017
ISS astronauts will conduct 6-hour-long spacewalk to deploy 5 tiny satellites into space
Russian astronauts Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy will perform the tasks.
India Ashok Aug 14, 2017
Perseid meteor shower 2017: When, where and how to watch the 'brightest' shooting stars in UK
Nasa says that meteor shower will peak between 11-13 August.
India Ashok Aug 11, 2017
China is offering $1.2m to run the world's largest radio telescope but no one wants the job
China is reportedly looking for a foreigner to fill the position because Chinese astronomers aren't qualified.
India Ashok Aug 07, 2017
Nasa and ESA scientists reveal Sun's inner core rotates 4 times faster than its surface
After four decades of searching, scientists have found evidence of a kind of seismic wave in the Sun.
India Ashok Aug 02, 2017
Is the moon rich in water? Scientists say the lunar interior is wetter than we thought
Scientists say they detected widespread water within ancient explosive volcanic deposits on the moon.
India Ashok Jul 25, 2017
The ISS now has an adorable floating robot 'Int-Ball' to help space scientists work on experiments
The Japanese camera bot has been designed to autonomously zip about in space and record video and images.
India Ashok Jul 19, 2017
Nasa shares stunning New Horizons photos and videos of Pluto and its largest moon Charon
During its historic 2015 Pluto flyby, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft captured 1,200 photos and collected 10GB worth of data.
India Ashok Jul 17, 2017
New mysterious radio signals detected coming from a star just 11 light years away from Earth
Astronomers say that although unlikely, the possibility that signals came from intelligent extraterrestrial life cannot be ruled out yet.
India Ashok Jul 15, 2017
Nasa admits it can't afford to put humans on Mars
'Entry, descent and landing is a huge challenge for us for Mars,' said Nasa's chief of human spaceflight, William H. Gerstenmaier.
India Ashok Jul 14, 2017
Nasa's Juno probe captures stunning 'up close and personal' photos of Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The spacecraft successfully completed a flyby, coming within 9,000km of Jupiter's iconic hurricane.
India Ashok Jul 13, 2017
Pluto is emitting strong X-rays and no one knows how or why
Scientists are reportedly stumped by Pluto's X-ray emissions, raising more questions about its atmosphere.
India Ashok Jul 10, 2017
What is Nasa's DART? Watch how a spacecraft will save the Earth by smashing into an asteroid
Nasa's 'refrigerator-sized' spacecraft will smash into an asteroid at a speed about 'nine times faster than a bullet.'
India Ashok Jul 04, 2017
Do you want to go to space? UK will soon open its first $150m space training facility for all
Britain's first commercial space training and research facility is slated to open in 2019.
India Ashok Jul 03, 2017
The Sun is 'sneezing' up solar storms that are headed to Earth
In a new study, scientists looked into how the Sun's coronal mass ejections behave as they travel through space.
India Ashok Jul 02, 2017
Watch Milky Way's fastest stars flying through space, propelled by a supermassive black hole
The ESA's Gaia satellite, with the help of a specially designed neural network, spotted 6 stars flying at over 300 Kms/ sec.
India Ashok Jun 27, 2017
What are the Sun's spicules? Scientists uncover origins of solar plasma jets
The new findings help answer some long-standing questions in solar physics.
India Ashok Jun 24, 2017
Astronomers find evidence of a new Mars-sized planet hiding in our solar system
Evidence of a new planet orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, in the Kuiper belt.
India Ashok Jun 23, 2017
Nasa discovers 10 Earth-like potential planets that could host alien life
Kepler's latest findings bring up the total number of potential planets discovered by the telescope to over 4,000.
India Ashok Jun 20, 2017
Space warfare: US Air Force gearing up for future 'space conflict' by expanding space divisions
The new military shakeup is a step towards boosting America's space warfare divisions.
India Ashok Jun 19, 2017
Top 10 Mars discoveries: Nasa celebrates its spacecraft Maven's 1,000 days orbiting the Red Planet
From identifying solar wind impacts to discovering metal ions, Maven has made groundbreaking discoveries of the Red Planet.
India Ashok Jun 17, 2017
The Sun may have had an evil twin named Nemesis that could have wiped out all dinosaurs
Astronomers suspect that the Sun's twin 'escaped' into space, 'never to be seen again.'
India Ashok Jun 17, 2017
Where to watch live: Nasa will launch rocket to create multicoloured clouds in space
Nasa's rocket will shoot out clouds of red, blue and green into space, which could be seen from Earth.
India Ashok Jun 13, 2017
Alien life could be discovered within the next decade, says astronomer
Humans may find microbial life beyond Earth within the next 10-15 years but it may not be intelligent.
India Ashok Jun 12, 2017
What is Nasa's Saffire? Scorching space fire experiment tests how flames spread in microgravity
The fire experiments were conducted within Earth-orbiting spacecraft carrying ISS trash.
India Ashok Jun 06, 2017
Nasa will launch first ever neutron star mission via SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket
The mission will involve conducting experiments aboard the ISS that might help boost future human exploration to distant space bodies.
India Ashok Jun 03, 2017
New potentially habitable 'super-Earth' orbiting star 21 light years away has just been spotted
The newly discovered planetary body is the lightest exoplanet found orbiting an M-dwarf star.
India Ashok May 30, 2017
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