A team of UK researchers has taken the first step on what could be a stairway to heaven.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a glittering star cluster, resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy.
Ever wondered what outer space smells like? Well, it smells like a mixture of fried steak, hot metal and the welding of a motorbike, say scientists. And, a chemist is now recreating the smell of space in a laboratory -- thanks to NASA which commissioned the research that can be used to help astronauts prepare for the conditions they will encounter in space.
The spacecraft is expected to reach Mars orbit in about 200 days from now and then begin its mission to study the Red Planet's atmosphere.
After a stretch of lousy returns Silicon Valley's VCs are searching for companies with novel traits: rising revenue and profits.
Met officials say the storm, that ravaged homes in Cuba and killed at least 81 people in the Caribbean, could slam into the Texas coast -- south of Galveston -- as a powerful category 3 storm late Friday or early Saturday and may intensify into category 4. Mandatory and voluntary evacuations were planned or underway in at least seven coastal counties.
One perk of being a pilot, apart from travelling the world, is a front-row seat to the Earth's natural wonders -- from jaw-dropping sunrises to silver slivers of lightning against ink coloured-clouds. One among them is Ecuador-based Santiago Borja who is known as "The Storm Pilot" because of the images he's taken. Borja, who lives in Quito, Ecuador, was kind enough to grant us permission to show some off his work.
India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I is set for a late October or an early December launch, according to noted space scientist and former chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan.The spacecraft, which will carry five Indian and six international experiments, has been assembled and undergoing a series of tests.India has already begun work on the next lunar mission in which space scientists plan to land a rover on moon.
The agreement was signed at American space agency NASA's Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley this week and it would be formally announced on Tuesday. Apart from India, the countries which signed the pact with the US are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea.
India and the US have agreed to cooperate in the exploration and use of space for peaceful purposes, including in human space flight, under an agreement signed between their space agencies.
Prasun Desai is the project's senior engineer and Entry, Descent and Landing lead engineer, Langley Research Centre, Virginia, one of the four agencies working on the Phoenix project. The other three are NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin Space Systems
'Our culture, our history, our achievements are great and we should start celebrating them.' 'I am glad our movies are doing that and Mission Mangal is doing that.'
The moon blacked out the sun in totality over Indonesia's main western island of Sumatra, providing crowds with stunning views of a total solar eclipse.
If the automobile, which can transform itself from a two-seater road car to a plane in 15 seconds, survives its first test flight next month, it is expected to land in showrooms in about 18 months, The Sunday Times claimed.
Without the computers, the station cannot maintain proper orbit and its crew cannot stay on board.
In Jayashree Gadkar's sad demise we have lost a great actress, a gem of a person who always thought of others and who loved Marathi movies.
The Olympics have come a long way since the first one in Athens where athletes alone mattered. Over a century later, technology too is helping athletes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics games to smash records.
After 186 days in space on the International Space Station, it is time for European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake, American Tim Copra and Russian Yuri Malenchenko to return to Earth. But their return is fraught with danger.
The 15-minute conversation, which took place on Friday, was broadcast on National Aeronautics and Space Agency Television, following the conclusion of a station status media briefing from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"This week's full moon (October 25/26) will be biggest full moon of 2007," NASA experts said. The event coincides with the China's Lunar spacecraft 'Chang' (Moon Goddess) reaching the moon, which will give three-dimensional pictures of the moon's surface once it starts orbiting around it. Experts cautioned against viewing the full moon through telescope without an appropriate filter as it would affect the eyes.
Planet hunters have spotted more than 200 planets beyond the solar system, but the vast majority are hot, Jupiter-sized planets that will dwarf Earth and are almost certainly lifeless.
Leading astronomers have claimed that humans might make contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life forms within two decades. According to a report in the Daily Telegraph, the recent discovery of Earth-like planets outside our solar system and the launch of a major NASA mission in 2009 is bringing extra-terrestrial contact a dramatic step closer.
Atlantis astronauts are gearing up to check the tail section of their spacecraft for a minor tear in the heat shield while they prepare for a spacewalk that was postponed by 24 hours because of a German crew member's illness.
Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City found that 2007 tied with 1998 as Earth's second warmest year in a century. The eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years record have all occurred since 1990.
Hours after she returned to Earth onboard shuttle Atlantis after a record 195-day stay in space, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams was chosen Person of the Week by a leading US television network.
Atlantis' flight path brought it over San Diego and just east of Los Angeles before it touched down at Edwards where it was greeted by fair skies and light winds.
Attempting to land so close to rain or clouds would violate flight rules, NASA said.
Despite the error, officials said the shuttle was on course for landing on Thursday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida if weather permits.
"Early this morning, Mission Specialist Sunita Williams set the record for the longest-duration single spaceflight by a woman," NASA said in a statement.
On his 55th birthday, Sukanya Verma celebrates his inimitable ways in 10 scenes that she keeps returning to time and again.
the US was ready to talk with any country who was on an acceptable list, who had a space programme and capability that could fly instruments or collaborate in missions.
Four rockets are carrying earthy bacteria to the great beyond.
It is believed that the crop residue burning in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana are contributing to polluting the air.
Williams has been kept up to date on the developments since the February 26 hail storm and is taking the uncertainty over her return to Earth in stride.
Vithal said that during Sunita will also visit her ancestral village Jhulasan in Mehsana district in Gujarat
Stunning photographs have captured the Perseid meteor shower that has delighted stargazers across the world.
He underlined the importance of satellites in identifying ground water level, ideal fish catching zone, prediction of monsoon, disaster management, and bringing many Television programmes to the rural areas.
The power drop led to a temporary loss of ISS communications and the shutdown of heating units, some science equipment and one of three operating US gyroscopes used for attitude control.
'The ultimate satisfaction of helping in the country's space programme is the bigger achievement attracting women to space research -- and they are so good at it!'
