National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Washington : NASA will halt commanding its Mars missions for the next few weeks as Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun, the US space agency has said.The period, called Mars solar conjunction, happens every two years.…

NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington

NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington

NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington

US space agency NASA has assembled the first of its powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rockets, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon. The engineers at Florida's Kennedy

After flying closer to Jupiter's largest moon than any other in more than two decades, NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back two images offering dramatic glimpses of the icy orb.During the flyby on June 7, Juno came within 645 miles (1,038…

NASA's Juno spacecraft will come within 645 miles (1,038 kilometres) of the surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede on June 7, the US space agency said on Friday.The solar-powered Juno spacecraft will fly past Ganymede at 1:35 p.m. EDT…

NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus to understand how Earths nearest planetary neighbour became an inferno-like world when it may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like…

Organic salts are likely present on Mars, a NASA team has found, and their detection may provide evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet.A study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, found that organic salts,…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has added many firsts to its kitty. After becoming the first to test power flight on another world and to capture the colour image of the Martian surface, the mini helicopter has now completed its fifth…