The U.S. space agency NASA launched a satellite to uncover the secrets of the Sun’s lower atmosphere. NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) was launched aboard an Orbital Sciences Pegasus...
On July 19, 2013 NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will be taking the first-ever natural-colour image of the Earth as seen from the Saturn system, from 1.44 billion kilometres away. The US...
Scientists at NASA have discovered exotic neutron star called Magnetar named SGR 0418 by using Chandra X-ray Observatory and other satellites. What are Magnetars? Magnetar are the dense remains of dead stars...
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems. Kepler-62 system Kepler-69 system The Kepler-62 system has five planets: 62b 62c 62d 62e 62f Kepler-62 system has five...
Subsequent to successful collaboration in Chandrayaan-1 lunar mission, India and the US have agreed to cooperate on future missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA and ISRO collaborated successfully for the Chandrayaan-1...
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which is exploring Mars, has identified sulphur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon – some of the key chemical ingredients required to support life –...
Recent data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has spotted the youngest black hole yet in the Milky Way galaxy named “W49B”. W49B is just 1000-years-old and only 26,000...
About Europa: Moon of Jupiter 6th closest moon of Jupiter Smallest of Jupiter’s 4 Galilean satellites Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon Composition:...
NASA has claimed to have discovered the youngest black hole, named W49B, in Earth’s galaxy or the Milky Way. The black, located within a supernova remnant, was formed...
NASA launched an unmanned Atlas V rocket carrying the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). It is a communication satellite to stay in touch with its space station...