The Saturn moon Titan is one of the most peculiar places in the solar system as it is the only planetoid besides earth to be carrying stable bodies of liquid on its surface - although that liquid is comprised of methane and ethane.
The planet Mercury is shrinking, but it is most certainly in no hurry. The planet Mercury is shrinking, but it is most certainly in no hurry. Images from NASA indicate that the planet, which is the smallest one in the solar system, is now 8 miles smaller in diameter today than it was more than three billion years ago.
On Tuesday, NASA announced its ambitions to go to Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, by 2025. On Tuesday, NASA announced its ambitions to go to Europa, an ice-covered moon of Jupiter, by 2025.
Proving even further that we really aren't alone out there, NASA's Kepler Mission has announced a planetary bonanza: more than 700 planets have been confirmed to exist within our galaxy, for a grand total of more than 1,000 planets besides our own in the Milky Way.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and NASA awarded the lease of Hanger One, a Silicon Valley icon, to Planetary Ventures LLC, a Google Company, further intertwining the two entities' fates in an attempt to reduce unnecessary spending.
The shuttle is on track to spend about a day in orbit before returning to a landing strip on the West Coast. Then, if all goes well, the company will launch its first manned mission the following year, in 2017.
The names are being logged by NASA and the Planetary Society, an international space enthusiast group, for the OSIRIS-REx mission, to be launched toward the asteroid Bennu in 2016.
Named after the space agency's second administrator who was key during the Apollo lunar exploration missions, the Webb Pace Telescope is set to receive $658 million in funding this year alone.
The amazing visual spectacle could easily be a holy apparition, with the image of a bright hand in the sky poised to give a blessing. NASA even names the visual phenomenon the ‘Hand of God,’ for the uncanny depiction. The Great Falls Tribune however clarifies that the image actually depicts the exploded remains of a dying star.
According to the Canadian based Northern Lights Centre, the Northern lights or Aurora Borealis, are caused by "collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere."
The beautiful phenomenon known as aurora borealis, or northern lights, will be seen in unexpected parts of the United States today and tomorrow, including as far south as Colorado
Music diva Beyonce has been labeled as "insensitive" after listeners started to notice what a six second audio clip on the song "XO" from Beyonce's hit surprise album, was really from. The clip is the terrifying announcement of a NASA astronaut who launched the Challenger, the rocket ship that exploded 73 seconds after lift off in 1986.
The original suit worn by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronaut Rick Mastracchio was left unusable after a water switch was mistakenly switched on at the end of Saturday's walk.
One of the station's two cooling loops shut down earlier this week. Flight controllers think a faulty valve inside an external pump was to blame. The shut-down is considered serious and needs to be fixed soon.
The vapor jets were not detected during Hubble's observations in the same region in October 1999 or even November 2012, n The Galileo probe, which flew by Europa nine times in the late 1990s, didn't see any plumes there either.
NASA has developed a 'superhero' robot for use use in disaster situations. The Valkyrie robot will compete in the DARPA Challenge Trials at the end of December.
Tawny crazy ants have invaded the U.S. Gulf Coast. Tawny crazy ants have invaded the U. S. Gulf Coast. The ants originally come from South America, but in 2002, tawny crazy ants appeared in Texas.
Through the years, numerous movies have been made that portray the journeys of astronauts in space. Now NASA is hoping the new George Clooney film Gravity will help boost the interest of the public in space activities.
NASA has lost another of their pioneer astronauts, as Scott Carpenter passed away at age 88. The former astronaut, author, fighter and loving husband and father died due to complications after having suffered from a stroke last September.
NASA’s Juno was the fastest spacecraft that flew by Earth with a speed of 12,000kph. NASA's Juno was the fastest spacecraft to flew by the Earth, with a speed of 12,000kph.
SpaceX has launched a more powerful and well equipped Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday so as to place a new Canadian satellite into space along with five other tinier payloads for research. It aims to carry more astronauts easily to the space station.
