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NASA`s space vegetable project to soon provide lettuce to astronauts

Last Updated: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 23:25

NASA will launch the Vegetable Production System aboard SpaceX`s Dragon capsule on Monday.

Mysterious glow on Mars is not life: NASA

Last Updated: Saturday, April 12, 2014, 22:29

We all have been wondering about that strange “glow” spotted on Mars by Curiosity taking it as as some sort of sign of life. But NASA has debunked this idea saying that the glow was either a shiny rock or a glitch in the rover’s camera.

NASA to take you 10 times farther into our galaxy

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 13:14

Applying a novel technique that can yield new insight into dark energy in space, astronomers can now precisely measure the distance of stars up to 10,000 light-years away - 10 times farther than previously possible.

24-year-old Hubble now able to measure 10 times furtherer into space

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:01

Astronomers have come with a new use of NASA`s Hubble Space Telescope, even though it is 24 years old.

Beautiful streamlined islands on Mars were formed by fast-flowing water

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 11:58

Researchers have claimed that beautiful streamlined islands and narrow gorges were carved by fast-flowing water pounding through a small, plateau region near the southeastern margin of the vast Vallis Marineris canyon system.

Supernova that swept materials equivalent to about 45 times sun`s mass found

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 11:54

Researchers have identified a supernova remnant - known as G352.7-0.1 (or, G352 for short) - that has swept material, equivalent to about 45 times the mass of the Sun.

NASA to build spacecraft set to visit asteroid

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 11:32

US space agency NASA said Thursday it has been given the permission to build a spacecraft designed to collect samples from an asteroid back to Earth.

Researchers find first evidence of a possible `exomoon`

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 15:51

According to a new research funded by NASA, astronomers have found in the far world first signs of what could be an “exomoon”.

Mystery behind Saturn`s hexagonal storm solved?

Last Updated: Friday, April 11, 2014, 08:29

Thirty years ago, an unusual structure with hexagonal shape surrounding Saturn`s north pole was first spotted on the planet perplexing the astronomers ever since then.

Astronauts` pee to get recycled into clean water

Last Updated: Thursday, April 10, 2014, 20:03

In between the news about water on Mars, clues of life on Jupiter or new stars being formed at our galaxy`s edge, there is a less glamorous side of space exploration: what to do with astronauts` urine!