[UPDATE 21/03/13] Let's not get too carried away -- the Nasa team isn't as convinced that their little probe that could has made it outside of the Solar System. It's definitely in a new region, but according to Ed Stone of Caltech "it is the consensu…
Nasa has announced that it will be recycling old satellite hardware to create an instrument for measuring ocean wind. The RapidScat instrument is a reworking of the QuickScat system, which also monitored ocean wind data but ceased functioning in …
Astroboffins poring through data from NASA's Kepler telescope have spotted what they think might be the most Earth-like planet yet discovered. The object has a radius 1.5 times that of Earth, which lumps it into the class of extrasolar planets kn…
NASA astronauts are living under the water in preparation for a future mission to an asteroid. Resembling something you would expect to see as a result of the work of movie special effects teams, this is very real. The astronauts are living under…
Scientists have discovered a distant planet that could have water, making it potentially capable of supporting life. The planet, Kepler-22b has the most similarities to Earth of any so far found and orbits a larger Sun-like star 600 light years from …
NASA scientists are working hard to try to establish exactly where the remains of UARS, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, will land following its descent to Earth later this week between Thursday and Saturday. The landing zone is currently cal…
With the Space Shuttle programme now completed, NASA is turning it's attention to Jupiter with the imminent launch of Juno, a solar powered spacecraft , about to start it's 5 year mission to look at the planet's formation, evolution and structure. Ju…
The final touchdown of Atlantis brings to an end the 30 year space shuttle programme. The 135th mission draws to a close NASA's current phase of space development and it is likely to be another 5 years before the next generation of astronauts is read…
One million spectators are expected to watch as Atlantis, NASA's last shuttle, blasts off on the last ever space shuttle mission on Friday. The shuttle crew are in place and the countdown has started at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The five s…
Nasa's latest pictures and videos of a solar flare demonstrate the awesome power of our star. Fortunately the blast was not in the direction of the earth so any potential interference to our satellites is likely to be minimal. This was the largest fl…