Atlantis astronauts Patrick Forrester and Steve Swanson, will likely use a sewing kit, reserved usually for spacesuits to repair a peeled-back thermal blanket near the spacecraft's tail, NASA managers said.
'This may open up doors for private players in India to collaborate with global players in commercial missions.'
NASA's infrared eye on the universe -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- has marked its tenth year in space and it is still going strong.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission departed for the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on March 2, 2023.
The ozone hole over Antarctica expanded this month to one of the largest sizes on record due to unusually cold temperatures in the stratosphere, which could lead to more harmful ultraviolet rays reaching the Earth, according to NASA.
Brown dwarfs are thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of Jupiter.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Indian Space Research Organisation have shelved plans to train an Indian astronaut at NASA to be part of a manned mission of the American space shuttle.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a series of new images of the dwarf planet Ceres, showing tantalising detail of the mysterious world's surface.
Scientists saw a spacecraft slamming into the moon's south pole at 9,000 kmph kicking up a 10-km-high shower of debris that NASA hopes will confirm the presence of enough water necessary to supply future visits by astronauts.
The winning pennant, titled 'Education 4 Exploration' will fly on space shuttle Endeavour's STS-118 mission, targeted to launch this August.
The robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a partial scoopful of clumpy Martian soil to the oven on its Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA. TEGA has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to assess its volatile ingredients, such as water.
The new organism -- Solibacillus kalamii -- was found on the filters of the International Space Station.
NASA's Deep Space Networks will help India to track the Mars orbiter's journey, and will also help to track it when it will go around Mars, reports Ritu Jha from California.
Two weeks after India successfully launched its maiden Mars mission, America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched a new spacecraft to orbit the red planet to probe how it lost its atmosphere and abundant liquid water.
No life on Mars? Hopes of finding alien life on Mars may have been dashed after new data from NASA's Curiosity rover revealed that the Red Planet lacks methane gas, researchers, including one of Indian origin, say.
The NASA budget includes $4.3 billion for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs, $5 billion for science, $3.9 billion for future exploration systems and $569 million for aeronautics research.
Nasa has predicted a bumper food production in Bihar this year. On the basis of its satellite imagery system Nasa has recently found that during this spring, rice and maize production in eastern India, particularly in Bihar, would touch a record level. It has indicated the prospect of having a bumper Rabi crop in most parts of Bihar this year. State govt survey had predicted a sharp fall in this year's foodgrain crop in the state. Nasa says the survey is technically faulty.
The United States space shuttle Endeavour took off from Houston's Ellington Airport on its voyage into retirement just after sunrise on Thursday, leaving behind heavy hearts as many consider National Aeronautics and Space Administration 's successful space shuttle programme, a part of Houston history.
After more than four years of orbiting Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will crash into the solar system's innermost planet in two weeks when it runs out of propellant.
Later in the day NASA will unveil a report that admits to 'heavy use' of alcohol by astronauts, although the report remains silent on which astronauts were found to be drunk and on which missions
Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to the Moon, was launched on October 22, 2008 from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.
The company said this would boost their efforts to send tourists to space by 2009 and help quick point-to-point travel across the earth using a space vehicle.
NASA's Voyager 1 has entered a new and unexpected region at the far reaches of our solar system that scientists believe is the final area the spacecraft has to cross before reaching interstellar space.
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Curiosity has detected traces of nitrogen on Mars surface, adding evidence that the red planet could have once supported life.
An outstanding image of a nearby galaxy has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has sucked Martian air into its big Sample Analysis at Mars instrument to reveal the concentration of different gases.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rover Curiosity has made the first definitive detection of organic molecules, the building blocks of all known forms of terrestrial life, on the surface of the Red Planet.
The National Aeronautics and Space Aadministration is collaborating with a British company in developing an early warning system for earthquakes, which would be able to predict major quakes two weeks in advance.
A "land based explosion" rather than a meteorite is more likely to have killed a man and injured three others in a mysterious blast in Tamil Nadu last week, NASA scientists said on Wednesday.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered water during its first sample analysis of the Red planet's surface.
India, China and the Middle East, with their fast-growing economies and expanding industry, have seen growing air pollution, according to NASA.
The United States aims to put a man on Mars by 2037 and build a space civilisation. "We have a long-term plan to put a man on Mars by 2037," Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Michael Griffin said.
18 students of Budha Dal Public School and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology have earned the distinction of becoming the first Indian team ever to qualify for the Space Settlement Design Competition at NASA.
On December 1and 2, flood-ravaged Chennai received more rainfall in 24 hours than it had seen on any day since 1901, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
two US scientific instruments will be on board India's mission to the Moon 'Chandrayaan-1'.
The new, apparently less lofty mountain range was found on the lower-left edge of Pluto's best known feature, the bright, heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Region.
The first color images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the a fine blue tinge.
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