National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Washington : NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space to build rockets to help retrieve samples from Mars.The Colorado-based company will build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment,…

Washington : The International Space Station (ISS) will continue its operations until 2030 and will plunge into the most remote point in the Pacific Ocean in 2031, NASA confirmed in a new transition plan released this week.According to the…

Washington: It is commonly believed that water on Mars evaporated about 3 billion years ago.But two scientists studying data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found signs of liquid water on the Red Planet as recently as 2 billion to…

Jerusalem : Israel has signed the Artemis Accords and joined the US-led programme to land human beings on the Moon by 2025 and later on Mars, the Israel Space Agency (ISA) said.The agreement, signed by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ISA…

Washington : NASA's next-generation James Webb telescope, which travelled about 1 million miles from Earth, has reached its final destination.But, the science operations are expected to begin only in late June or early July, Space.com…

Washington : NASA's revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope has reached the final orbit in space on Tuesday, after a month of space travel.A joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission was…

Washington : NASA will pay up to $1 million to people who can come up with innovative and sustainable food production ideas to feed astronauts in space, as the US space agency prepares to send astronauts further into the cosmos than ever…

Washington : Scientists at NASA's Curiosity rover have found a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes from several powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars.While the finding is intriguing, it…

New Delhi/New York : Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and the National Oceanic and…

Washington : NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team has successfully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations in deeper space.A joint…