In A Mock Mission, Crew Walk On A Simulated Red Planet
Moscow: After 257 days in a locked steel capsule, researchers on a mock trip to Mars ventured from their cramped quarters on Monday in heavy space suits, trudging into a sand-covered room to plant flags on a simulated Red Planet.
The crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese entered a network of modules at
If you grew up thinking there were nine planets and were shocked when Pluto was demoted five years ago, get ready for another surprise. There may be nine after all, and Jupiter may not be the largest.
The hunt is on for a gas giant up to four times the mass of Jupiter thought to be lurking in the outer Oort Cloud, the most remote region of the solar system.
Nasa has released the first-ever 360-degree panoramic images of the Sun.
Two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (Stereo) satellites, launched in 2006, have gradually been drifting apart
Astronomy and astrophysics is a highly active field and an extraordinary amount of progress is being made, said Astrophysicist from Harvard-Smithsonian centre for Astrophysics (USA) Dr Vinay Kashyap.
London: Experts predict the Northern Lights will be at their brightest in 50 years in 2012 and could cause disruption of mobile phones, global positioning systems and even national grids.
The 2012 aurora will be caused by the solar maximum
London: For the first time since the last Apollo landings of 1968s, scientists are planning to explore the dark side of the Moon using a manned spacecraft.
Engineers with aerospace giant Lockheed Martin want to send up astronauts into stationary orbit above the planet to study it further.
LONDON: European astronomers scanning the Milky Way have discovered a planet near a star of extragalactic origin, implying that it came from outside our own galaxy.
The finding, which challenges current understanding about how planets are formed and survive, was made in the so-called Helmi stream
