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Mars' tiny potato-shaped moons captured facing each other in stunning Nasa image
Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft was flying 5,615km away from Phobos and nearly 20,000km away from Deimos when the images were captured.
Shubham Sharma Feb 25, 2018
Watch: Beautiful time-lapse sequence shows Juno probe move across Jupiter's transforming South Pole
The Juno probe was hovering above Jupiter's clouds, around 137,264 to 200,937 km away, when it captured the time-lapse sequence of images.
India Ashok Feb 24, 2018
Scientists reveal how the most intense explosions on the Sun are stopped by solar magnetic cage
The sun's surface is surrounded by a magnetic field that acts as a barrier to stop massive solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections.
India Ashok Feb 24, 2018
The moon has more water than previously thought but is it enough to sustain a lunar colony?
New research revealed that water on the moon is more widespread and immobile than previously thought.
India Ashok Feb 24, 2018
Scientists just measured the Universe's expansion rate but we need new physics to explain it
Scientists used Nasa's Hubble telescope to make the most precise measurements of the Universe's expansion rate till date.
India Ashok Feb 23, 2018
Space Launch System: Watch Nasa fire up its next big rocket engine at highest-ever thrust capacity
The first mission of the vehicle will be an uncrewed flight to the far side of the moon sometime in 2020.
Shubham Sharma Feb 22, 2018
Nasa's billion dollar 'mobile launchpad' is leaning and is likely to launch only one SLS rocket
Nasa spent eight years modifying a structure that took only two years to build.
Immanuel Jotham Feb 22, 2018
Jupiter's Great Red Spot will disappear in the next 10 years
The storm – the largest in the solar system – is about to calm down and will eventually cease to exist.
Immanuel Jotham Feb 21, 2018
Nasa's Orion deepspace spacesuit will have a built-in toilet
Astronauts can live in the suit for six days without taking it off. Food and waste will remain in the suit.
Immanuel Jotham Feb 21, 2018
The final frontier: This is where Nasa's Cassini spacecraft plunged and burnt into pieces
Cassini was more than 600,000km away from Saturn when the images for the mosaic were taken.
Shubham Sharma Feb 21, 2018
Why Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is on 'precautionary standby'
The spacecraft's original mission was just for two years and has seen five extensions.
Shubham Sharma Feb 20, 2018
Nasa celebrates Opportunity rover's 5,000th day on Mars, shares its first full selfie
Nasa planned a 90-day long mission for the rover in 2004 but Opportunity denied giving up and is still doing a great job on the Red Planet.
Shubham Sharma Feb 18, 2018
Nasa's Hubble photo reveals breathtaking beauty of galaxy embracing baby stars 20 million light years away
The spiral galaxy's swirling arms are where new stars are born, whose high temperatures make them shine a bright blue.
India Ashok Feb 15, 2018
Nasa's sun-watching satellite captures incredible photo of a total solar eclipse in space
The total solar eclipse captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), kicked off this year's eclipse season.
India Ashok Feb 14, 2018
Nasa sending space submarine to explore Kraken Mare, the -184°C alien ocean on Titan
The ocean, named Kraken Mare, measures 400,000 sq km and is mainly composed of liquid methane at -184 degrees Celsius.
Aristos Georgiou Feb 13, 2018
The Mars-Scotland connection becomes crystal clear thanks to Nasa's Curiosity Rover
Coincidentally, the crystals were discovered at a site on the Red Planet called Jura – named after a small island off the country's west coast.
Aristos Georgiou Feb 09, 2018
Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft makes history by capturing the 'farthest image ever' from Earth
New Horizons' record-breaking image was captured when it was even farther away from Earth than Nasa's Voyager 1 when it captured the infamous "Pale Blue Dot" photo of Earth.
India Ashok Feb 09, 2018
Watch: Astronauts play space badminton for the first time ever on the International Space Station
A video posted by Russian space agency Roscomos shows the badminton shuttle zip across in zero gravity as ISS astronauts float about playing the game.
India Ashok Feb 07, 2018
British hacker Lauri Love escapes extradition to US over FBI and Nasa breach
Lauri Love has won his appeal against extradition to the United States for allegedly hacking the Federal Reserve and US Army.
James Hetherington Feb 05, 2018
Here is how Nasa plans to use the next massive volcanic eruption to tackle global warming
The ash spewing from the volcano could be the key to cooling down our planet and prevent our ozone layer from being damaged.
Shubham Sharma Feb 04, 2018
Watch Nasa conduct hot fire test of 3D-printed engine parts of Space Launch System
The SLS rocket engine is one of the most powerful rockets ever made and can launch a spacecraft into deep space.
Immanuel Jotham Feb 04, 2018
New alien planets have just been found outside Milky Way in a galaxy 3.8 billion light years away
Astrophysicists discovered the cluster of extragalactic planets using an astronomical phenomenon called microlensing.
India Ashok Feb 03, 2018
How was Nasa's lost Image satellite found? Mysterious power boost likely helped transmit new signal
The data gathered during the Image spacecraft's five-year mission led to around 40 new discoveries about Earth's magnetosphere and plasmasphere.
India Ashok Feb 03, 2018
Astronauts don't eat enough because food floats in their stomachs
Nasa focuses on encouraging astronauts to eat more in space to reduce dangerous body and bone mass loss in orbit.
Claire Toureille Feb 01, 2018
100-million-year-old dinosaur and mammal footprints found at Nasa space flight centre
The slab of rock, nearly as big as a dining table, tells how mammals and dinosaurs interacted in the Cretaceous era.
Shubham Sharma Feb 01, 2018
America celebrates 60 years in space: This is our pick of Nasa's greatest triumphs
Sixty years ago, the US launched its first satellite - Explorer I - into space, kick-starting decades of scientific discovery.
Aristos Georgiou Jan 31, 2018
Watch Nasa's epic panoramic vista showcasing Mars Curiosity rover's six-year-long mission
The photo is a combination of 16 different shots taken by the Curiosity rover's MastCam imager from a vantage point.
Shubham Sharma Jan 31, 2018
Kessler Syndrome: Here's how we plan to save the world from space debris
The Surrey Space Centre is leading a Europe-wide initiative to tackle a truly global problem through the RemoveDebris mission.
Ben Taylor Jan 31, 2018
Astronauts could make 'Marmite' from their own faeces
Recycling solid and liquid waste into Marmite and Vegemite "microbial goo" could be the key to lasting food supplies in space.
James Hetherington Jan 26, 2018
Nasa Gold: Mission to study the 'intermingling' of outer space and Earth begins
Nasa's Gold mission will learn how charged waves of magnetism and hurricanes down on Earth affect the upper atmosphere.
Immanuel Jotham Jan 25, 2018
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