NASA shot off the International Sun/Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) into space 36 years ago. The space agency now plans to bring the probe home later this year but a new crowdsourced project wants to gather money to make use of it for citizen science.
After Russia’s move on Crimea, many had speculated that the Cold War days were probably back. This notion is reaffirmed by yet another official announcement by a Russian official, stating that Russia aims to establish a permanent Moon base.
Yesterday, the team behind NASA’s robotic spacecraft MESSENGER celebrated the 3rd orbital anniversary of the spacecraft and confirmed that spacecraft has got new findings which will be disclosed in 25 papers at the 45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
Last year during a spacewalk outside the ISS, an astronaut was about to die as water was leaking into his helmet. He was so lucky that he survived, thanks to another astronaut. However, here’s the exclusive video of that incident.
Although having a speed of speed of 186,000 miles per second in vacuum, light can pass through a black hole. In fact, black holes suck everything around them. So is there any chance that one day the Earth will be a prey of it? Let’s find out.
Nuclear bomb itself is a great threat to the humanity. But interestingly, a new study suggests that a nuclear bomb can save Earth from dangerous space rocks aka Asteroids.
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has been in orbit around Mercury since 2011. Scientists expected that the probe might have captured around 2,000 images of Mercury until now. But surprisingly, MESSENGER has sent more than 200,000 images of the planet.
When astronaut Don Pettit was at the International Space Station (ISS), he successfully grew Zucchini (one type of vegetable). This inspired NASA to farm vegetables in space. But are the space-grown vegetables safe to eat? Well, according to Russian scientists, space-grown vegetables are safe to eat.