Mercury, the tiny rocky planet closest to the sun, may have a lot common with Earth, but a spacecraft sent to the least-explored planet in the system is providing surprising data that has revolutionized the way scientists think about the innermost planet.
The latest observations by NASA's NEOWISE mission that mapped the entire sky are suggesting that there are lesser likely threatening asteroids in the solar system than previously thought.
NASA's Mercury probe has found hollows indicating a probable widespread flood volcanism on its surface, the U.S. space agency says.
New close-up images and data provided by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft have revealed an unforeseen class of landform on the planet Mercury.
New observations by a NASA space telescope that mapped the entire sky suggest that there are fewer potentially threatening asteroids in the solar system than previously thought.
China has embarked on a plan to launch a new space lab on Thursday beginning with the lift off of its 8.5-ton Tiangong-1 space module. Developing nations across the world are launching space and science research that could put them on the path to charting their own future.
Those worried about getting hit by NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) can breathe a sigh of relief. The satellite fell into the Pacific Ocean sometime between 11:23pm Friday and 1:09am Eastern Saturday morning, Sept 23.
In the coming years, as a result of changes, in solar activity, radiation hazards are likely to increase for both air travelers and astronauts.
Amateur astronomers working with the online citizen science project Planet Hunter have discovered two potential exoplanets, according to reports.
Scientists warn that change in solar activity will increase space radiation that could be hazardous to astronauts and airline passengers in the near future.
From Earth's moon to supernovas in other galaxies, astounding images of space have been released recently from NASA expeditions.
On Saturday, NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) crash landed at approximately 12AM Eastern time. The location, NASA confirmed, is in a general area in the Southern hemisphere away from any major lands. To their knowledge, however, there have been no signs of UARS debris located in the predicted geographic region.
Debris from a defunct six-tonne NASA science satellite that crashed to Earth on Saturday fell harmlessly in a remote area of the South Pacific Ocean, NASA said on Tuesday.
A browser game titled Planet Hunters sends players searching through Kepler public data for potential planets, and now university researchers are saying that we may discover two new exoplanets very soon.
Private African-American businesses, especially in areas with large black populations like the greater Washington, D.C., area and Los Angeles have done well, winning major federal contracts for critical IT projects. The important thing is not to be the CEO of Xerox, eAccess founder John W. Templeton told IBTimes. The important thing is to be the one who creates the next imaging device.
A group of amateur planet sleuths is helping researchers online in the hunt for Earth-like planets far off in outer space.The voluntary planetary detectives recently bagged two potential planets, even as funding to continue collecting the data may be threatened.
This week, China has plans to launch its first prototype of a future space station. Being the third nation to send a person to space, China leaves the rest of the world anxious for their launch event.
An unidentified object believed to have fallen from the sky was found in Indian state of Meghalaya on Tuesday. The mysterious object was recovered from a flower bed of St Edmund's College in Shillong.
The dead NASA satellite plunged into the remote South Pacific Ocean, when it crashed to Earth last Saturday, said NASA on Tuesday.
The strong solar storm that reached the Earth on Monday has shrouded our planet with cosmic rays and high-energy particles that can prove to be hazardous to astronauts and airline passengers in coming days, space scientists have warned.
NASA will soon develop a new optical, laser-based communication system that will allow transmitting high-resolution images and videos from Mars and even from distances beyond Moon, in just one minute, which currently takes around 90 minutes.
Computer gamers have identified two possible Earthlike planets outside the solar system, while playing the browser game Planet Hunter, which lets the public get data from NASA's Kepler mission and public archives and pictures.
