Nasa‘s New Horizons spacecraft has returned the best colour and the highest resolution images yet of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, which show a surprisingly complex and violent history. The image combines blue, red and infrared […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers at Nasa have successfully tested an umbrella-like heat shield made of carbon fabric that could protect future Mars exploration vehicles from extreme heat when entering the red planet’s atmosphere. As Nasa missions […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Two US airlines will soon begin testing a new NASA-developed software that is designed to help air carriers save time, cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions. During the next three years, Virgin America […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA‘s Dawn spacecraft has shown the brightest spots on the dwarf planet Ceres that are gleaming with mystery. The closest-yet view of Occator crater, with a resolution of 450 feet per pixel, on […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA‘s Dawn spacecraft has delivered the closest-yet views of the dwarf planet called Ceres that show the small world’s features in unprecedented detail. The new images show Ceres’ tall, conical mountain, crater formation […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): With its biggest orbit manoeuvre since 2006, NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is preparing for the arrival of NASA’s next Mars lander called InSight next year. The Mars orbiter will be engaged in […]

HOUSTON (TIP): NASA said Thursday, July 23, that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted “Earth’s bigger, older cousin”: the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): New images of Ceres from Nasa‘s Dawn spacecraft has provided more visible images of mysterious bright spots and also revealed a pyramid-shaped peak towering over a relatively flat landscape. Dawn has been studying […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA‘s Hubble space telescope has provided the first glimpse of Pluto’s moons that wobble unpredictably, tumbling in absolute chaos. It means if you lived on one of Pluto’s moons, you might have a […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): The mysterious dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discoloured by exposure to radiation, NASA scientists have found. Presence of sea salt […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (TIP): Nasa‘s pioneering Messenger spacecraft ended its four-year study of the planet Mercury on Thursday by crashing into the planet’s surface, scientists said. Flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa scientists have joined the hunt for extraterrestrial life and will adapt a global climate model to simulate conditions on potentially habitable exoplanets. The effort by Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA‘s New Horizons spacecraft, set to fly by the Pluto system on July 14, has sent its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. “The image reveals tantalising […]

Nasa‘s Curiosity rover has found that water can exist as a liquid near the Martian surface. Mars should be too cold to support liquid water at the surface, but salts in the soil lower its […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Signs of alien life will be detected by 2025, while “definitive evidence” of extra-terrestrial beings may be found within the next 20 to 30 years, top Nasa scientists say. “I think we’re going […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa‘s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said. By drilling into […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa‘s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has observed mysterious high-altitude dust cloud and aurora that reaches deep into the Martian atmosphere. The presence of the dust at orbital altitudes from 150 […]