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‘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
Discovery of arsenic eating bacterium opens up new vistas for extra terrestrial life exploration
04 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.
NASA extends www out into space
25 Jan 2010
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week - personal access to the internet and the world wide web via the ultimate wireless connection
Kepler mission discovers five very hot planets
05 Jan 2010
NASA signs pact with ISRO to use Oceansat-2 data
20 Nov 2009
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.
ISRO-NASA in joint experiment with lunar probes
21 Aug 2009
A few minutes before midnight, India’s lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 would have crossed another milestone conducting an extremely complicated joint experiment with NASA’s recently launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) intended to look at the possibility of water ice existing on moon’s surface.
Orbiting space fuel stations to make missions more feasible
10 Aug 2009
A US presidential panel looking into options for NASA’s human space flight programme is looking into a concept that may well make space transportation more feasible than it has been so far: orbital gas stations.
Tweeting from space
07 Aug 2009
NASA astronaut Col Tim Kopra becomes the first crew member of the International Space Station to use Twitter services as he discusses living conditions and working in orbit.
On this day, 40 years back, man stepped on the moon
20 Jul 2009
Today, 20 July 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon walk when the American Apollo 11 mission became the first to land on the moon.
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