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NASA launches GRAIL lunar orbiters

12 Sep 2011

US, Russia consider pulling out astronauts from space station

30 Aug 2011

DNA building blocks can be made in space

By By Bill Steigerwald, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. | 11 Aug 2011

NASA-funded researchers have found more evidence that meteorites can carry DNA components created in space, setting at rest doubts whether these were created in space or resulted from contamination by terrestrial life

First evidence of flowing water on Mars

05 Aug 2011

US space agency NASA said Thursday it had found the first evidence of flowing water on Mars. If confirmed, this would be the first discovery of active liquid water in the ground on the Red Planet.

Next Mars rover mission to land at Gale Crater

23 Jul 2011

NASA's next Mars mission, another rover, will touch down in a place called the Gale crater, a site that may likely yield the best clues to the question if the planet ever supported life.

Atlantis touches down – end of NASA's shuttle era

21 Jul 2011

Space shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at dawn Thursday to end a 30-year journey for NASA's shuttle programme.

Sun and planets constructed differently, analysis from NASA mission suggests

By By Stuart Wolpert | 05 Jul 2011

Space debris narrowly misses International Space Station

29 Jun 2011

The crew aboard the International Space Station overcame a scare yesterday when pieces of space debris passed by very close prompting the crew to take cover inside Russian rescue craft.

Mars exploration: NASA bids Spirit adieu

28 May 2011

Space shuttle crew complete International Space Station assembly

28 May 2011

A US space shuttle crew crossed a number of milestones on 27 May including completing the final assembly of the $100 billion International Space Station, NASA reports.

‘Orion’ resurrected as NASA’s future deep-space explorer

25 May 2011

The spacecraft was originally designed for America’s scrapped back-to-the-moon project. Now NASA and Lockheed Martin will revive Orion in a new avatar

NASA's Spitzer reveals first carbon-rich planet

14 Dec 2010

Diamond-studded planets may support life

10 Dec 2010

NASA'S Chandra finds youngest nearby black hole

16 Nov 2010

NASA test-fires new rocket engine for commercial space vehicle

13 Nov 2010

NASA approves Mars mission, MAVEN

11 Oct 2010

NASA images reveal deformation of Earth’s surface by Mexican quake

24 Jun 2010

NASA has released the first-ever airborne radar images of the deformation in Earth's surface caused by a major earthquake that rocked a Mexican and an American state on 4 April.

NASA research suggests more water trapped inside moon

15 Jun 2010

NASA’s Martian rover sets new longevity record

21 May 2010

NASA's new eye on the Sun delivers stunning first images

27 Apr 2010

Some of the images from the spacecraft show never-before-seen detail of material streaming outward and away from sunspots

NASA radar onboard India’s lunar probe detects ice

02 Mar 2010

Space scientists have announced that a NASA radar onboard India's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 has detected at least 1.3 trillion pounds of water ice in craters located at the moon's North Pole.

First infrared images arrive from WISE space mission

19 Feb 2010

The first set of public images from NASA’s WISE mission reveal some stunning photographs of deep space. The mission is expected to reveal previously unseen objects in space.

Kepler mission discovers five very hot planets

05 Jan 2010

NASA launches infra-red mapping mission of the skies

15 Dec 2009

NASA, ISRO confirm the presence of water on the moon

25 Sep 2009

A jubilant space science community across the globe is now pondering how the discovery of water on the moon, is likely to impact the future of space activity.