NASA has released a new interactive and free web-based application that allows users to explore the solar system. The Eyes on the Solar System provides a 3D environment full of NASA's mission data that allows users to see the solar system in real time.
It's high time to clean up the space otherwise the growing amount of space junk around Earth could prove dangerous for not only satellites, but also manned spacecrafts. This is the warning that the National Research Council has given to NASA in a report released on Thursday.
The amount of space debris floating around Earth has touched the “tipping point,” as per a report released by the National Research Council, which will be putting into danger the safety of operational satellites and spacecraft from NASA and other space agencies.
Space debris has touched the “tipping point,” as per a report released by the National Research Council, which appealed to NASA to find methods of monitoring in a better manner as well as cleaning up the orbiting junk which could be ominous for active satellites and manned spacecraft.
The amount of space junk currently in the orbit has reached a threshold where it increases the danger of possible collision with active satellites and manned spacecraft. NASA needs to find ways to clean up the orbital debris, says a report by the National Research Council released on Thursday.
Space debris orbiting the earth is becoming increasingly hazardous, researchers warn, with junk posing increasing danger to astronauts and space missions.
Six astronauts may need to temporarily abandon and delay the launch of the International Space Station should last week's launch in Russia prevent the crew from flying there this fall.
The cause for last week's Soyuz rocket failure that crashed Russia's Progress 44 supply ship heading to the International Space Station has been identified, said Russian news reports.
Pre-packaged food rations may not be adequate to sustain the first manned mission to mars, scientists claim. Experts believe that kitchen Vegetable gardens will give the crew a healthier diet and produce more oxygen onboard.
An unprecedented evacuation of the International Space Station could occur if Russian spacecraft do not return by November, a senior NASA official said. There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when it's unmanned than if it were manned, ISS program manager Michael Suffredini said in a conference call.
A malfunctioning gas generator in the Soyuz carrier rocket's third stage engine has been identified by members of the emergency commission as the reason a supply ship didn't make it to the International Space Station, Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov told the Itar-Tass on Monday.
Following the failure of the Russian Soyuz rocket last week, if the astronauts, currently living in the International Space Station, will have to abandon ship even temporarily, the $100 billion orbiting research facility would be at great risk of being lost.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) may leave the International Space Station (ISS) unmanned after the failure of a Russian Soyuz rocket last week is forcing the agency to consider its options.
Following the failure of an unmanned Russian Soyuz rocket last week, the International Space Station might have to be left without a crew if NASA's Russian partners can't find the cause of the malfunction and fix it soon.
NASA's researchers are investigating ways to implement a bioregenerative system in space that would allow astronauts to grow certain plants.
Russian space vehicles are currently the only means of transporting crews and supplies to the station now that the U.S. space shuttle program has ended. The U.S. space shuttle flew its last mission in July.
U.S. and Russian space agency officials are considering temporarily pulling astronauts off of the International Space Station, The Wall Street Journal reports Monday, following last week's failure of an unmanned cargo mission to the international space station.
NASA said that astronauts may need to abandon the International Space Station in the fall. The announcement was prompted by Russian Soyuz rockets, which will be grounded until well into November. NASA said that it will be impossible to send new crews into space after current crews leave.
Astronauts traveling to the Red Planet to script the first manned mission to Mars may have to grow their own food on the spacecraft.
Have you ever thought of a trip, or vacation out of this world, somewhere in the space? Well, if your wallet is healthy enough to spend some, you would be able to watch our blue planet turning, while cavorting in zero-gravity with a cup of iced tea.
Russian Space Agency on Thursday said that it will go ahead with the launch of a navigation satellite on Friday only when the safety checks have been carried out after the crash.
An unmanned Russian spacecraft carrying three tons of food, fuel and water for the International Space Station crashed about five minutes after it was launched, NASA officials said Wednesday.