Washington: NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft will complete its 60,000th orbit on June 23 since arriving at the Red Planet in 2001.Jim Green, NASA's director of Planetary Science, said that this orbital milestone is an opportunity
Cape Canaveral(Florida): The only spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash landing on Thursday.NASA's Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun's closest planet at about 8,750
Washington: Exactly 85 years after Pluto's discovery, the NASA spacecraft set to encounter the icy dwarf planet this summer has spotted small moons orbiting Pluto.The moons, Nix and Hydra, are visible in a series of
Cape Canevaral, Florida: NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a “bullseye” splashdown in the Pacific on Friday following a dramatic test flight that took it to a zenith height of 3,600 miles (5,800 kilometers) and ushered
Cape Canaveral, Florida: NASA's quest to send astronauts out into the solar system begins this week with a two-laps-around-Earth test flight. The new Orion spacecraft is not going to Mars just yet; Thursday's debut will be
Darmstadt (Germany): Hundreds of millions of miles from Earth, a European spacecraft made history today by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet - an audacious cosmic first designed to answer
Washington: A commercial spacecraft operated by US space company SpaceX blasted off Friday for its third cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA TV showed.The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was launched aboard a
New York: Ever imagined creating your own space shuttle? If you are clueless how to start, here comes NASA to your aid.If you have studied rocket science, NASA would enable you to make your own
Washington : The US space agency -- NASA -- launched its newest Mars-bound spacecraft Monday afternoon to look at the red planet's upper atmosphere, Xinhua reported.The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) lifted off at
Los Angeles, May 26: A NASA spacecraft will reach out and touch an asteroid and send pieces back to Earth, the space agency announced Wednesday.The unmanned probe won't land on the rocky body. But it
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