The European Space Agency's (ESA) Don Quijote Mission plans to launch two spacecraft that will fire into a test asteroid to study the possibility of diverting an impact to earth.
Private rocket company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has received a November 30 launch date from NASA for a cargo delivery to the International Space Station.
NASA is preparing to launch a more advanced rover to delve even deeper into the history of Mars, just as its current rover is hitting its stride.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MES) Opportunity after painstakingly covering a 13-mile journey in three years has reached the Red Planet's Endeavor crater.
Jodie Foster, Academy Award winning actor, producer and director, was among 2,557 donors helping SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence -- collective name for a number of activities people undertake to search for intelligent extraterrestrial life) in its lookout for alien radio signal from outer space.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has announced a possible first-ever cosmic detection of flat carbon flakes called graphene in two small galaxies outside the solar system. Upon confirmation, researchers believe that it might hold vital clues on how life developed on Earth.
It's time to get ready for another interplanetary object encounter as NASA has confirmed that a very dark, nearly globular asteroid will pass between Earth and the moon later this year.
Astronaud Ron Garan generously shared his photos of the Perseid meteor shower this weekend -- taken from outer space.Garan is aboard the International Space Station Garan is as part of the Expedition 27 crew, which launched in April."What a 'Shooting Star' looks like #FromSpace," Garan said in his tweet of the photograph. At the time of the photograph, the space station was orbiting over China, a few hundred miles northwest of Beijing.Every year in mid-August, the Earth ...
Since NASA has retired its space shuttle program, a private rocket company has stepped in to fill the gap and is in the process of readying a capsule for a liftoff to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
NASA has released a dramatic image showing a pair of galaxies on a collision course about 450 million light years from Earth.
The annual Perseid meteor shower was observed around the world by the sky-watchers on Friday night and Saturday morning despite the full moon light, which is called 'Grain Moon' or 'Green Corn Moon' for this month.
The astronauts will take part in a series of public events. On Aug. 16, the crew will visit the American Museum of Natural History where they will answer questions from children in attendance at the event that is free with museum admission. They will also appear on The Colbert Report later that night, according to the SPACE.com article.
On the heels of the retirement of the space shuttle program, NASA announced it has launched a new department that has targeted asteroids and Mars as the next targets for human space exploration.
Perseids are associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the sun once every 133 years. Every August, the Earth will through a cloud of the comet's debris. These bits of ice and dust - most more than 1,000 years old - burn up in the Earth's atmosphere to create one of the best meteor showers of the year, NASA said.
Sky-watchers around the world observed the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 12 when it reached its peak despite a bright full moon.
You earthlings might have had some pretty spectacular views of the 2011 Perseid meteor shower, but astronomers in space got some magnificent views. During its peak Friday, NASA astronaut Ron Garan captured these photographs of the Perseids and posted them on Twitter ... from space, while aboard the International Space Station.
While the 2011 Perseid Meteor Shower did not disappoint onlookers during its peak on Aug. 12, an astronaut from NASA's International Space Station (ISS) one-upped us Earth dwellers when he posted photos of the shooting stars FROM space.
NASA is pushing the boundaries of technology as it readies its next mission to Mars, loading up its fourth Mars Rover with nearly a dozen instruments and employing an innovative but risky landing procedure.
Despite a bright full moon, sky-watchers around the world didn't get disappointed as they caught striking views of the Perseid meteor shower overnight Friday (Aug. 12).
TrES-2b, the blackest planet ever discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, is only three million miles away from the star it orbits, which makes its atmosphere burn at 980 degrees Celsius (1,800 degrees Fahrenheit). But still, the blacker than coal planet mysteriously reflects only one percent of the starlight that strikes it.
NASA is moving closer to launching its 4th rover on a mission to Mars that will investigate whether Mars is, or whether it has been hospitable to microbial life.
After rising steadily from the market-bottom of March 2009 to April 2010, Boeing stock has basically been flat.
