National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA launches GRAIL lunar orbiters
12 Sep 2011
DNA building blocks can be made in space
By By Bill Steigerwald, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. | 11 Aug 2011
NASA-funded researchers have found more evidence that meteorites can carry DNA components created in space, setting at rest doubts whether these were created in space or resulted from contamination by terrestrial life
First evidence of flowing water on Mars
05 Aug 2011
US space agency NASA said Thursday it had found the first evidence of flowing water on Mars. If confirmed, this would be the first discovery of active liquid water in the ground on the Red Planet.
Next Mars rover mission to land at Gale Crater
23 Jul 2011
NASA's next Mars mission, another rover, will touch down in a place called the Gale crater, a site that may likely yield the best clues to the question if the planet ever supported life.
Atlantis touches down – end of NASA's shuttle era
21 Jul 2011
Space shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at dawn Thursday to end a 30-year journey for NASA's shuttle programme.
Sun and planets constructed differently, analysis from NASA mission suggests
By By Stuart Wolpert | 05 Jul 2011
Space debris narrowly misses International Space Station
29 Jun 2011
The crew aboard the International Space Station overcame a scare yesterday when pieces of space debris passed by very close prompting the crew to take cover inside Russian rescue craft.
Mars exploration: NASA bids Spirit adieu
28 May 2011
Space shuttle crew complete International Space Station assembly
28 May 2011
A US space shuttle crew crossed a number of milestones on 27 May including completing the final assembly of the $100 billion International Space Station, NASA reports.
‘Orion’ resurrected as NASA’s future deep-space explorer
25 May 2011
The spacecraft was originally designed for America’s scrapped back-to-the-moon project. Now NASA and Lockheed Martin will revive Orion in a new avatar
NASA's Spitzer reveals first carbon-rich planet
14 Dec 2010
Diamond-studded planets may support life
10 Dec 2010
NASA'S Chandra finds youngest nearby black hole
16 Nov 2010
NASA approves Mars mission, MAVEN
11 Oct 2010
NASA images reveal deformation of Earth’s surface by Mexican quake
24 Jun 2010
NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake that rocked a Mexican and an American state on 4 April.
NASA’s Martian rover sets new longevity record
21 May 2010
NASA's new eye on the Sun delivers stunning first images
27 Apr 2010
Some of the images from the spacecraft show never-before-seen detail of material streaming outward and away from sunspots
NASA radar onboard India’s lunar probe detects ice
02 Mar 2010
Space scientists have announced that a NASA radar onboard India's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 has detected at least 1.3 trillion pounds of water ice in craters located at the moon's North Pole.
First infrared images arrive from WISE space mission
19 Feb 2010
The first set of public images from NASA’s WISE mission reveal some stunning photographs of deep space. The mission is expected to reveal previously unseen objects in space.
Kepler mission discovers five very hot planets
05 Jan 2010
NASA, ISRO confirm the presence of water on the moon
25 Sep 2009
A jubilant space science community across the globe is now pondering how the discovery of water on the moon, is likely to impact the future of space activity.