NASA completes 1st global geologic map of Saturn's Moon
Nov 19, 2019, at 05:21 pm
Los Angeles/Xinhua/UNI: NASA scientists have completed the first map showing the global geology of Saturn's largest moon Titan, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has said in a release.
2019 Ozone hole is the smallest on record since its discovery
Oct 22, 2019, at 06:20 pm
New York: The annual ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on Sept. 8, and then shrank to less than 3.9 million square miles (10 million square kilometers) for the remainder of September and October, according to NASA and NOAA satellite measurements.
NASA unveils new spacesuits for human lunar landing
Oct 16, 2019, at 09:57 am
Washington, Oct 16 (Xinhua/UNI) The US space agency NASA unveiled on Tuesday the next-generation spacesuits to be used in its Artemis program that will send the first woman and next man to the Lunar South Pole by 2024.
Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram had a 'hard landing': NASA
Sep 27, 2019, at 09:01 am
Washington, Sept 27 (IBNS): The Chandrayaan-2 lander, Vikram, attempted a landing on Sept 7 on a small patch of lunar highland smooth plains between Simpelius N and Manzinus C craters but it had a hard landing and the precise location of the spacecraft in the lunar highlands has yet to be determined, NASA said.
NASA starts new efforts to resume heat probe to study inner temperature of Mars
Jun 23, 2019, at 01:32 pm
Los Angeles, Jun 23 (Xinhua): NASA InSight lander's mission team has started new efforts to try to get InSight's heat probe digging again on Mars, said the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sunday.
Canada: NASA astronomers capture first image of black hole in Messier 87
Apr 10, 2019, at 10:28 pm
New York, Apr 10 (IBNS): The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) researchers on Wednesday revealed in coordinated press conferences across the globe, their success in unveiling the first direct visual evidence of a supermassive black hole and its shadow in Messier 87, NASA reports said.
India's satellite destruction could endanger ISS, says NASA
Apr 02, 2019, at 04:14 pm
New York, Apr 2 (UNI) Nasa has called India's destruction of a satellite a "terrible thing" that could threaten the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA's Cassini finds Saturn's rings coat tiny moons
Mar 30, 2019, at 09:36 am
Washington, Mar 30 (IBNS): New findings have emerged about five tiny moons nestled in and near Saturn's rings. The closest-ever flybys by NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal that the surfaces of these unusual moons are covered with material from the planet's rings — and from icy particles blasting out of Saturn's larger moon Enceladus.
NASA study reproduces origins of life on ocean floor
Feb 28, 2019, at 01:05 pm
Washington, Feb 28 (IBNS): Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.
2018 fourth warmest year in continued warming trend, according to NASA, NOAA
Feb 08, 2019, at 09:24 am
Washington, Feb 8 (IBNS): Earth's global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
NASA's AIRS captures polar vortex moving in over US
Feb 01, 2019, at 06:59 pm
Washington, Feb 1 (IBNS): The U.S. Midwest has been gripped by the lowest temperatures it has seen in years. An unusually cold Arctic air mass, called a polar vortex, is responsible for the severe temperatures, which in many areas have plunged well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit (-18 degrees Celsius).
Huge cavity in Antarctic glacier signals rapid decay: NASA
Feb 01, 2019, at 06:34 pm
Washington, Feb 1 (IBNS): A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries reported in a new NASA-led study of the disintegrating glacier.
More Glaciers in east Antarctica are waking up: NASA
Dec 12, 2018, at 04:08 pm
New York, Dec 12 (IBNS): East Antarctica has the potential to reshape coastlines around the world through sea level rise, but scientists have long considered it more stable than its neighbor, West Antarctica.
NASA InSight Lander 'hears' Martian winds
Dec 08, 2018, at 05:19 pm
NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander, which touched down on Mars just 10 days ago, has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the Red Planet. A media teleconference about these sounds will be held today at 12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST).
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Dec 04, 2018, at 05:37 pm
Washington, Dec 4 (IBNS): NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday.
World simply ‘not on track’ to slow climate change this year: UN weather agency
Nov 30, 2018, at 08:03 am
New York,Nov 30 (IBNS) The world is heading in the wrong direction to slow climate change after another year of near-record temperatures, the head of the UN’s weather agency said on Thursday.
Nov 27, 2018, at 12:49 pm
Washington DC, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-km) journey from Earth.
NASA InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to learn what lies beneath
Nov 27, 2018, at 08:58 am
Washington, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident.
NASA, Northrop Grumman launch space station, national lab cargo
Nov 17, 2018, at 07:49 pm
Washington, Nov 17 (IBNS): Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa
Nov 13, 2018, at 09:15 am
New York, Nov 13 (IBNS): Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.
Astronomers find first evidence of possible Moon outside solar system
Oct 06, 2018, at 06:54 am
Washington, Oct 6 (IBNS): Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system.
Now is a ‘pivotal time for climate action’ says UN chief, looking to ozone layer gains
Sep 17, 2018, at 09:48 am
New York, Sept 17 (IBNS): With record-breaking heat once again enveloping the earth this year, United Nations Secretary-GeneralAntónio Guterres said it was also “a pivotal time for climate action”, marking the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, on Sunday.
NASA, ULA launch mission to track Earth's changing ice
Sep 17, 2018, at 09:28 am
Washington, Sept 17 (IBNS): NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. EDT Saturday, embarking on its mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen reaches with unprecedented accuracy.
NASA unveils 'before and after' images of flood-hit Kerala
Aug 28, 2018, at 06:08 pm
Washington, Aug 28 (IBNS): NASA has unveiled images where it has shown the destruction caused by floods in the Indian city of Kerala.
Canada: NASA chiefs discover water on the moon
Aug 23, 2018, at 09:05 pm
Ottawa, Aug 23 (IBNS): National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently confirmed an abundance of water on the Moon situated in hundreds of patches of ice deposited in the north and south poles, media reports said.
NASA gets up close with Greenland's melting ice
Aug 22, 2018, at 07:36 pm
Washington, Aug 22 (IBNS): With a new research plane and a new base to improve its chances of outsmarting Atlantic hurricanes, NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign takes to the sky this week for its third year of gathering data on how the ocean around Greenland is melting its glaciers.
NASA confirms ice at the Moon’s poles
Aug 21, 2018, at 09:15 am
Washington, Aug 21 (IBNS): In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s surface.
NASA finds Amazon drought leaves long legacy of damage
Aug 13, 2018, at 04:07 pm
Washington, Aug 13 (IBNS): A single season of drought in the Amazon rainforest can reduce the forest's carbon dioxide absorption for years after the rains return, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
NASA, ULA launch Parker Solar probe on historic journey to touch Sun
Aug 12, 2018, at 04:42 pm
Washington, Aug 12 (IBNS): Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission.
NASA to name astronauts assigned to first Boeing, SpaceX flights
Aug 03, 2018, at 08:33 am
Washington, Aug 3 (IBNS): NASA will announce on Friday the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon, and begin a new era in American spaceflight.