Spacecraft

With the advent of technology and especially astronomy apps, teaching space to the young has become easier.

According to a report published by U.S Government Accountability Office, SpaceX and Boeing will receive certification for flying commercial crew missions somewhere around the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020.

TESS is expected to launch on April 16th, 2018, The spacecraft will conduct an all-sky survey, starting with the Southern Hemisphere in its first year. MAny follow-up interstellar probes will be planned depending on its findings.

All science operation will resume on 7th July, and NASA has confirmed its not going to affect any primary objectives of the New Horizons' Pluto mission.

You might have watched solar eclipse or lunar eclipse from Earth's surface. Now, lets watch a lunar eclipse that was occurred on October 8 from Mercury's orbit, thanks to space agency NASA's robotic spacecraft MESSENGER.

Space agency NASA is now in a very jolly mode. Why? Because after two years of driving and drilling on Mars, Curiosity has finally arrived at the base of Mount Sharp, at the center of Gale Crater.

Ever since NASA's robotic spacecraft MESSENGER entered into Mercury's orbit, it's been studying the planet's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. And now, it's been reported that MESSENGER is going closer to Mercury than ever before to study the planet more deeply.

Space agency NASA's spacecraft Cassini has already revealed amazing details of Saturn and its Moons. Now, Cassini has spotted 101 geysers through which water is coming upward from Saturn's ice moon Enceladus's underground.

For long time we've been hearing that NASA will launch a $800 million probe called OSIRIS-REx towards an asteroid. Lately, Lockheed Martin has announced that OSIRIS-REx will go into space, collect samples of that asteroid and return to Earth.

NASA launched its lunar spacecraft LADEE to study the lunar exosphere and dust in the Moon’s vicinity. Recently, NASA has announced that LADEE crash into Moon on or before April 21.