National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA sees sea levels rising by several feet in future
27 Aug 2015
A new visualisation based on 23 years of sea level data reveals changes are anything but uniform around the globe
Drought causes vast areas of California’s Central Valley to sink faster than ever: Nasa
20 Aug 2015
Nasa data showed the ground sinking nearly two inches each month in certain areas, putting roads, bridges and canals at increased risk of damage
NASA seeks support to Boeing, SpaceX to end reliance on Russia for commercial space flights
06 Aug 2015
Lack of adequate funding for NASA has forced America’s premier space agency to extend its existing contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, to transport American astronauts to the International Space Station
Nasa, Isro jointly working on synthetic aperture radar mission
30 Jul 2015
The two space agencies are jointly working to co-develop the Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), a dual frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite
NASA’s Kepler mission discovers bigger, older cousin to Earth
24 Jul 2015
Since the launch of Kepler in 2009, 12 planets less than twice the size of Earth have been discovered in the habitable zones of their stars
NASA’s New Horizons finds frozen plains in Pluto’s ‘heart-shaped’ feature
18 Jul 2015
In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named `Tombaugh Regio’ - lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes
Pluto’s mountainous surface could be biologically active, say NASA scientists
16 Jul 2015
A new close-up image of an equatorial region near the base of Pluto’s bright heart-shaped feature shows a mountain range with peaks jutting as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the planet's icy body
NASA's New Horizons reaches Pluto for historic encounter
14 Jul 2015
New Horizons, the multiple rovers exploring the surface of Mars, the Cassini spacecraft that probed Saturn and the Hubble Space Telescope, will all help NASA to make an informed plan to send American astronauts to Mars in the 2030s