NASA astronauts to conduct spacewalk as early as Monday

Dec 19, 2015, at 08:52 pm

California, Dec 19 (IBNS) Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Tim Kopra of NASA are preparing for a previously unscheduled spacewalk outside the International Space Station on either Monday or Tuesday.

New NASA satellite maps show human fingerprint on global air quality

Dec 15, 2015, at 02:56 pm

Washington, Dec 15 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195 cities around the globe.

NASA mission reveals speed of solar wind stripping Martian atmosphere

Nov 06, 2015, at 03:10 pm

California, Nov 6 (IBNS) NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission has identified the process that appears to have played a key role in the transition of the Martian climate from an early, warm and wet environment that might have supported surface life to the cold, arid planet Mars is today.

Cassini begins series of Flybys with close-up of Saturn Moon Enceladus

Oct 14, 2015, at 03:28 pm

California, Oct 14 (IBNS) NASA's Cassini spacecraft will wrap up its time in the region of Saturn's large, icy moons with a series of three close encounters with Enceladus starting Wednesday, Oct. 14.

NASA releases plan outlining next steps in the journey to Mars

Oct 09, 2015, at 02:52 pm

California, Oct 9 (IBNS) NASA is leading our nation and the world on a journey to Mars, and Thursday the agency released a detailed outline of that plan in its report, "NASA's Journey to Mars: Pioneering Next Steps in Space Exploration."

International Space Station partners release major update to docking standard

Oct 06, 2015, at 03:16 pm

California, Oct 6 (IBNS) The International Space Station Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) has approved a major update to the station docking system standard.

NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Planetary Mission

Oct 01, 2015, at 04:43 pm

Washington, Oct 1 (IBNS) NASA on Thursday selected five science investigations for refinement during the next year as a first step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities as early as 2020. The submitted proposals would study Venus, near-Earth objects and a variety of asteroids.

NASA confirms evidence that liquid water flows on today’s Mars

Sep 29, 2015, at 03:02 pm

California, Sept 29 (IBNS) New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Cassini finds global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus

Sep 16, 2015, at 10:22 pm

California, Sept 16 (IBNS) A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

NASA to test emergency locator transmitters by crashing airplane

Aug 22, 2015, at 04:49 pm

California, Aug 22 (IBNS) Using a Cessna 172 dropped from a height of 100 feet, NASA's Search and Rescue Mission Office will simulate a severe but survivable plane accident Wednesday, Aug. 26 to test emergency locator transmitters (ELTs). NASA Television will air live coverage of the test, which is scheduled to happen between 1 and 2 p.m. EDT.

NASA begins to build Satellite Mission to improve Hurricane forecasting

Aug 20, 2015, at 09:29 pm

California, Aug 20 (IBNS): Ten years after Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic, construction of NASA’s next-generation hurricane-observing satellite mission now is underway in Texas.

NASA's next mission: Send 'your' name to Mars

Aug 19, 2015, at 11:09 pm

California, Aug 19 (IBNS) NASA on Wednesday said Mars enthusiasts around the world could participate in its journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.

NASA's Kepler Mission discovers bigger, older cousin to Earth

Jul 24, 2015, at 03:42 pm

California, July 24 (IBNS) NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth."

UN and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launch #whyspacematters photo contest

Jun 17, 2015, at 09:25 pm

New York, Jun 17 (IBNS): The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and United States astronaut Scott Kelly, currently on board the International Space Station, today launched a global photography competition to highlight the importance of outer space for sustainable development on Earth.

NASA completes MESSENGER Mission with expected impact on Mercury's surface

May 01, 2015, at 06:20 pm

Washington, May 1 (IBNS):A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury's surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet's surface.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission passes critical milestone

Apr 01, 2015, at 05:04 pm

California, Apr 1 (IBNS) NASA said its 'groundbreaking science mission' to retrieve a sample from an ancient space rock has moved closer to fruition.

NASA's deep-space spacecraft Orion ready for test flight

Nov 01, 2014, at 09:51 pm

Washington, Nov 1 (IBNS): The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) new Mars-bound spacecraft "Orion" is ready to take-off for a test flight December 4, media reported.

NASA'S Chandra Observatory identifies impact of cosmic chaos on star birth

Oct 28, 2014, at 07:22 pm

Washington, Oct 27 (IBNS) The same phenomenon that causes a bumpy airplane ride, turbulence, may be the solution to a long-standing mystery about stars' birth, or the absence of it, according to a new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

NASA's newest Mars mission spacecraft enters orbit around Red Planet

Sep 22, 2014, at 05:30 pm

California, Sept 22 (IBNS) NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully entered Mars' orbit at 10:24 p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 21, where it now will prepare to study the Red Planet's upper atmosphere as never done before. MAVEN is the first spacecraft dedicated to exploring the tenuous upper atmosphere of Mars.

NASA's Orion Spacecraft nears completion, ready for fueling

Sep 12, 2014, at 05:00 pm

California, Sept 12 (IBNS) NASA is making steady progress on its Orion spacecraft, completing several milestones this week at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the capsule's first trip to space in December.

NASA selects instruments to track climate Impact on vegetation

Jul 31, 2014, at 05:44 pm

Washington, July 31 (IBNS) NASA has selected proposals for two new instruments that will observe changes in global vegetation from the International Space Station.

NASA poke hole in Black Hole 'Doughnut' theory

May 23, 2014, at 05:07 pm

Washington, May 23 (IBNS) A survey of more than 170,000 supermassive black holes, using NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), has astronomers reexamining a decades-old theory about the varying appearances of these interstellar objects.

Forensics uncover planetary disks in NASA archive

Apr 26, 2014, at 04:41 pm

Washington, Apr 26 (IBNS) Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have applied a new image processing technique to obtain near-infrared scattered light photos of five disks observed around young stars in the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes database.

NASA telescopes find close, cold neighbor of Sun

Apr 26, 2014, at 04:41 pm

Washington, Apr 26 (IBNS) NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the coldest "brown dwarf" known -- a dim, star-like body that, surprisingly, is as frosty as Earth's North Pole.

NASA satellites show drought may take toll on Congo rainforest

Apr 24, 2014, at 05:48 pm

Washington, Apr 24 (IBNS) A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade.

NASA discovers Earth-size planet in 'habitable zone'

Apr 18, 2014, at 02:56 pm

Washington, Apr 18 (IBNS) Using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone" -- the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun.