National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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

Discovery of arsenic eating bacterium opens up new vistas for extra terrestrial life exploration

04 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 studies find omega-3 may help reduce bone loss

12 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.

NASA extends www out into space

25 Jan 2010

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week - personal access to the internet and the world wide web via the ultimate wireless connection

Kepler mission discovers five very hot planets

05 Jan 2010

NASA launches infra-red mapping mission of the skies

15 Dec 2009

NASA signs pact with ISRO to use Oceansat-2 data

20 Nov 2009

NASA flies to Antarctica for largest airborne polar ice survey

09 Oct 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.

ISRO-NASA in joint experiment with lunar probes

21 Aug 2009

A few minutes before midnight, India’s lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 would have crossed another milestone conducting an extremely complicated joint experiment with NASA’s recently launched Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) intended to look at the possibility of water ice existing on moon’s surface.

NASA completes construction of Ares-1 - new test rocket to replace shuttle

19 Aug 2009

Orbiting space fuel stations to make missions more feasible

10 Aug 2009

A US presidential panel looking into options for NASA’s human space flight programme is looking into a concept that may well make space transportation more feasible than it has been so far: orbital gas stations.

Tweeting from space

07 Aug 2009

NASA astronaut Col Tim Kopra becomes the first crew member of the International Space Station to use Twitter services as he discusses living conditions and working in orbit.