NASA launches InSight lander to mission on the Red Planet
NASA’S InSight Mars Lander has officially left Earth from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and has now taken a course towards the Red Planet,...
NASA: Get ready for the August 21 total solar eclipse
On Thursday, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured the partial solar eclipse that was visible in the United States that afternoon. Millions of people...
1,200 Light-Years away, Planet Kepler-62f may have Life in it
Kepler-62f, a planet is situated in the direction of the constellation Lyra, 40% larger than Earth and might also have life on it. The...
NASA launches TESS spacecraft to look for planets beyond our galaxy
After the launch of NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) on Wednesday, on top of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral....
Pence chooses to go to the moon again
At the first meeting of the reinstated National Space Council (NSC) on Thursday, Vice-President Mike Pence said the United States will send astronauts to...
Study: prolonged space flights affect sight and the brain
Medical researchers published a study about the effects of spaceflight on astronaut brain structure this Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Their...
Ross 128 b is the latest promising alternative to Earth
A group of scientists from five different countries has announced on Wednesday the discovery of a new exoplanet just 11 light years away from...
Lost Ancient City Found Underwater is Not Man-Made
When sea divers in Greece's Zakynthos island found smooth floors and circular column bases under the sea, they thought that they have discovered an...
Ancient spider fossils reveal details of arachnid evolution
An ancient fossil from the Cretaceous period has been found, and it belongs to an eight-legged arachnid with a tail similar to a scorpion’s...
NASA’s Kilopower reactor to give Mars misson a nuclear boost
The United States tested nuclear reactor systems in order to sustain astronauts on Mars and a long duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable...