The commercial cargo vessel will bring home a variety of critical space research, including ISS hardware to extracted for analysis, refurbishment or discarding, NASA said.
The new world, known as K2-288Bb, could be rocky or could be a gas-rich planet similar to Neptune. Its size is rare among exoplanets -- planets beyond our solar system, according to the study published in the Astronomical Journal.
Hubble is the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, providing an unobstructed view into the universe.
This is surprising because until now, scientists thought that other processes, such as exploding stars called supernovae, were largely responsible for regulating the formation of stars.
The new planet named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light years away in the constellation Reticulum.
NASA released a composite of two images taken by New Horizons' high-resolution Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), which provides the best indication of Ultima Thule's size and shape so far.
The New Year’s Eve milestone occurred just hours before another NASA explorer, New Horizons, was set to fly past an icy space rock beyond Pluto.
On December 21, during winter solstice, four of Juno's cameras captured images of the Jovian moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system.
According to mission details published by NASA, New Horizons was scheduled to complete the flyby at around 11 am IST Tuesday.
NASA's first asteroid sampling spacecraft Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) arrived at asteroid Bennu on December 3.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft which made history in 2015 when it finished a nine-year journey that took it all the way to Pluto.
The New Horizons probe, which flew past Pluto in 2015, is set to encounter the Kuiper Belt object, referred to as 2014 MU69 -- nicknamed Ultima Thule -- on January 1, 2019.
The US space agency retired its space shuttle program in 2011 and has relied on Russian vehicles since then to go to the ISS.
In a video released on Twitter, Drew tried walking on earth but struggled as his legs were not getting that grip on the ground.
Just days ahead of its New Year's 2019 close encounter, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has detected an anomaly related to its next flyby target - an icy world a billion kilometres past Pluto and more than 6.5 billion km from Earth.
Bill Anders, one of the first men to orbit the Moon has said that it is "stupid" to plan human missions to Mars.
The research suggests that the sugar molecule that puts the "D" in DNA -- 2-deoxyribose -- could exist in the far reaches of space.
New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian dusk, according to the InSight team on Thursday.
A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA's Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian Sergey Prokopyev and German astronaut Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency landed on the snow-covered steppes in Kazakhstan.
The people behind the hacking have not yet been identified as NASA said that an unknown intruder got access to one of the agency's servers holding the personal data of the employees.
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