Outer space

“Our goal is to see if we can find a planet that is similar to Earth-one that can support life”, Professor Scott Gaudi, a researcher at Ohio State University, said in a statement. A coronagraph is a device that blocks…

China on Friday ( Dec 27 ) launched one of the world’s most powerful rocket, which is designed to carry 25 tons of payload into low orbit, with the aim of launching a Mars in 2020. China on Friday launched…

Here’s how NASA plans to track down alien life-in our solar system and beyond. Many astrophysicists and astronomers are convinced that it’s not a matter of if we ‘ll find life – it’s when. This puts TRAPPIST-1g in the cards…

Like parents witnessing their baby’s first precious steps, engineers with NASA’s Mars 2020 mission have driven their fancy new rover for the very first time, in an important test of the space agency’s next Martian explorer. The Mars 2020 launch…

Since 2012, the European Space Agency has been working on the design of a mission to remove large space debris from orbit. A space ‘tow truck’ (artist’s impression, pictured) designed to remove dead satellited from Earth’s orbit has been commissioned…

As NASA makes a big push to land humans on the moon’s surface by 2024, the European Space Agency ( ESA ) wants to learn more about the lunar caves that lie beneath. The lunar expert said : ” Exploring…

The landing module of India’s unmanned moon mission separated from the orbiter on Monday ahead of its planned touchdown on the moon’s south polar region this weekend, the space agency said. Monday’s maneuver removed the lander from the orbiter. The…

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the 18 m tall Electron rocket from Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand carrying three U.S. military-sponsored experimental satellites into orbit on the STP-27RD mission. It will be Rocket…

China is running its Space Lab alone and is not part of the International Project that currently maintains the International Space Station (ISS). China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3d printing technology to…

MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is a NASA-sponsored scientific investigation of the planet Mercury and the first space mission designed to orbit the planet closest to the Sun. As the MESSENGER spacecraft orbited the tiny planet, the…