LATEST NASA NEWS ON MISSIONS AND LIVE FEED VIDEOS

The AI robot that could finally make the paperless office a reality: Google invests $25m in Ripcord system

22/12/17 03:19

21/12/17 19:07

NASA has picked two finalists to determine what its next missions will look like. One will search for signs of alien life on Saturn's moon Titan, while the other will take samples from a comet.

20/12/17 21:36

Incredible images of an Air Force jet (pictured) passing in front of the sun has revealed how NASA will visualize shockwaves of the future supersonic X-plane.

20/12/17 20:10

At first glance, the striking neon color appears artificial, but, according to NASA, the submerged layer of the iceberg truly is ‘the bluest of ice.’ It comes from the Operation IceBridge mission.

20/12/17 00:29

NASA scientists may be on the brink of fully understanding the nature of the mysterious dark matter through X-ray data they've observed from the the Perseus galaxy cluster (pictured).

19/12/17 21:50

The team hope the radical mission hope it could blast off on the 100th anniversary of Apollo 11's in 2069 - but say technology such as laser sails still needs to be created.

18/12/17 15:00

The International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to fly over the UK at around 4:40 pm GMT (11:40am ET) on December 19, and will appear as a bright streak in the night sky.

17/12/17 17:19

NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered an eighth planet in a distant star system, the first time a faraway star has been found to have the same number of planets as our own.

15/12/17 17:22

The footage, shot 200 miles above the Earth, was posted to YouTube by UFO hunter Streetcap1 and has been described variously as a a weapon, teleportation, or data transfer device.

15/12/17 14:22

At its closest on Saturday 16th December, the asteroid is estimated to be around 6.4 million miles away from our planet – 27 times the distance between the Earth and the moon (stock image).

14/12/17 15:40

Nasa, based in Washington, DC, is holding a teleconference today at 1:00pm ET (6:00pm GMT) to reveal a new discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler telescope.

14/12/17 00:07

The amazing new view revealed by NASA shows the different effects of fault activity on the Martian surface, giving rise to everything from clean breaks to ‘stretched out’ distortions.

14/12/17 00:07

A lack of water caused California's Sierra Nevada mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 mm) in height during the drought years from October 2011 to October 2015, a NASA study has revealed.

13/12/17 20:16

NASA says the Geminids are one of the best and most reliable meteor showers. At its peak, 120 meteors can be seen per hour under perfect conditions.

13/12/17 17:51

Peter Kalmus took aim at some of the 25,000 scientists who flew to New Orleans for the annual American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting, the world's largest Earth and space science meeting.

13/12/17 14:42

Nasa experts based at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, say they are unsure how many rocks they will find when they close in on New Horizons' latest target 'MU69'.

13/12/17 08:00

The image was taken from NASA's Terra Satellite Earth Observing System which is the size of a minibus. The system travels north to south on the daylight side of the Earth.

13/12/17 01:54

NASA study found that the bright spots can be divided in four categories, offering evidence that the dwarf planet may not be a ‘dead world’ after all; instead, it could be geologically active.

12/12/17 11:40

President Trump directed NASA on Monday to send Americans to the Moon for the first time since 1972, in order to prepare for future trips to Mars.

12/12/17 11:33

The alien-hunting Breakthrough Listen project, led by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, will use the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to investigate the mysterious comet.

12/12/17 10:09

US President Donald Trump directed NASA on Monday to send Americans to the Moon for the first time in decades, a move he said would help prepare for a future Mars trip.

12/12/17 00:46

Ivanka, 36, met Whitson, 57, after President Trump signed a policy directive to send American astronauts back to the moon. Whitson is the US astronaut who has spent the most time in space.

11/12/17 23:28

The incredible video was created using data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its first pass over the Great Red Spot in July 2017, using its instruments to penetrate well below the clouds.

11/12/17 19:28

Nearly three years ago, an island sprung into existence in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, nestling between two older islands. Now, NASA scientists say it could remain for 25-30 years.

11/12/17 17:39

The asteroid, named ‘Oumuamua by its discoverers, is up to one-quarter mile (400 meters) long and highly-elongated—perhaps 10 times as long as it is wide.

11/12/17 15:22

Nasa scientists will be joined by a senior Google AI engineer and an expert from the University of Texas at Austin to reveal the Kepler telescope's latest planet candidate results.

08/12/17 16:56

The asteroid, named 2017 VL2, was just 73,000 miles (117,480 km) from our planet. It has now emerged that experts at Washington D.C.-based Nasa did not find out about it until a day later.

07/12/17 06:42

NASA has confirmed dozens of eyewitness accounts in the Tampa Bay area of a fireball streaking across the sky on Tuesday evening.

06/12/17 12:54

Randy Bresnik, a Nasa astronaut from Kentucky, filmed the incredible footage while the space station was 250 miles above Earth.

06/12/17 00:34

Scientists think Psyche could be what’s left of an exposed metal core of a planet very similar to Earth., and have calculated that the iron alone, would be worth $10,000 quadrillion.

05/12/17 17:17

The last time the duo walked the carpet together was in 2000 during their time on sitcom That '70s Show.

05/12/17 16:47

Taipei-based Scott Waring, who runs the site UFO Sightings Daily, said: 'This metal ball is perfectly formed and about the size of a softball here on Earth. It is 100 per cent evidence of a war on Mars.'

04/12/17 16:26

The loving actors put on an amorous display as they giggled to each other at the event celebrating the best scientific work of the year in addition to inspiring future generations of scientists.

02/12/17 14:45

The painstaking restoration will recreate the room as it was during the moon landing on July 20, 1969. Even the ashtrays, coffee cups and paperwork on the desks will be put back in place.

01/12/17 21:00

The spacecraft relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself so it can communicate with Earth. Now, the Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980.

01/12/17 14:02

Nasa's Juno spacecraft captured the image while only 11,700 miles (19,000 km) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds — roughly the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia.

01/12/17 00:51

According to new NASA research, heat created by the gravitational pull of moons formed in large collisions could be enough to extend the lifetimes of these subsurface oceans.

01/12/17 00:04

According to NASA, with evidence suggesting the honeycombs and the surrounding landscape in Mars northwestern Hellas Planitia may still be undergoing activity today, shaping the landscape.

30/11/17 15:46

Mark Rober, 37, a former NASA engineer from Orange County, California, has invented a hot tub filled with liquid sand in place of water.

30/11/17 12:00

The University of Manchester physics professor believes living microbes may be more common than we might think, and future missions to places like Mars may uncover evidence of them.

29/11/17 18:22

Authorities in America have been fighting for Mr Love, who has Asperger syndrome, to face trial on charges of cyber-hacking, which his lawyers say could mean a sentence of up to 99 years in prison.

29/11/17 17:21

Dr David Baker told Mail Online that Kim Jong-un is taking a 'considerable risk' with each missile test because even an accidental strike on a neighbouring country would spark all-out war.

29/11/17 13:06

Nasa expects Phaethon to make its closest pass with Earth on December 16, during which time the space agency hopes to take detailed images of the asteroid (stock image).

29/11/17 09:40

Senior Indonesian volcanologist Gede Swantika said a NASA satellite detected a thermal anomaly at the crater.

29/11/17 00:23

The Expedition 53 Commander tweeted breathtaking footage this week from a recent spacewalk on the International Space Station, captured with a Go-Pro.

26/11/17 17:01

Spectacular new footage from NASA has captured the ebb and flow of life on earth over a 20-year period and also highlights the shocking impact that climate change is having on the planet.

24/11/17 23:56

German researchers believe the moon may have a porous core that allows water from the overlying ocean to seep in, where the tidal friction exerted on the rocks heats it.

24/11/17 21:14

NASA believe that in zero gravity, the bug could have an increased resistance to antibiotics - which could cause major problems for astronauts.

24/11/17 15:28

The mysterious object was spotted in a photo sent back to Earth by Nasa's Mars rover, by Scott C. Waring, an alien enthusiast who regularly posts about alleged sightings and is based in Taiwan.

23/11/17 19:08

This incredible image shows a rare formation of ice in Antarctica known as 'finger rafting,' which occurs when two floes of thin sea ice collide.

23/11/17 16:46

The space agency took on pilot Ken Loo on a specially designed course using three purpose built drones named  Batman, Joker and Nightwing in a project funded by Google.

23/11/17 11:34

These eerie photographs show how USSR-era space craft have been left to rust in an abandoned desert hangar in Kazakhstan having once been the competition to the US NASA programme.

23/11/17 11:27

The three Americans, two Russians and one Italian will also rip into single-serving bags of mashed potatoes, candied yams, cornbread stuffing and cranberry-apple dessert alongside turkey.

22/11/17 18:05

NASA has released the stunning ‘Farewell to Saturn,’ stitching together 42 of Cassini's images for one final look at the remarkable planet – and, if you look closely, six moons can be seen, too.

22/11/17 16:57

Researchers at the University of Bristol have shown that a jump in trace gases in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan triggered an icy cold vortex at the satellite's south pole.

22/11/17 14:23

The tyre, which is made of a titanium nickel chainmail has been developed by experts at Nasa's Glenn Research Centre in Cleaveland, Ohio.

22/11/17 08:25

While it might appear alarming, the phenomenon is no cause for worry; NASA says this particular coronal hole was likely to blame for breathtaking auroras seen earlier this month.

22/11/17 01:15

Rather than head for the sofa when your partner is snoring, scientists claim there is one simple way to cease snoring, and it will cost you less than £15.

21/11/17 15:46

NASA believes they could be 'granular flows', where grains of sand and dust slip downhill to make dark streaks, rather than the ground being darkened by seeping water.

21/11/17 14:33

Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli shot the clip, which shows a fiery ball of light racing towards the Earth's atmosphere, from aboard the International Space Station.

20/11/17 23:47

The NASA engineers unsealed the 40-ton door of Chamber A on Saturday, marking the end of a critical test stage ahead of the telescope’s launch. It's been inside since July 10.

20/11/17 13:38

Supporters of Lauri Love, 32, from Suffolk, is facing up to 99 years in jail and a £7million fine if he is extradited to America on hacking charges, and say Theresa May has not helped his case.

19/11/17 16:27

A video uploaded to YouTube focuses on an image which purports to show a 'stagehand' reflected in the visor of an astronaut after Apollo 17 landed on the moon in December 1972.

18/11/17 17:03

Eliana Krawczyk, 35, is the weapons officer on the ARA San Juan which last made contact with its base on Wednesday. She is among 44 crew onboard the vessel which was 250 miles off the coast.

17/11/17 23:49

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured a breathtaking image of a raging tempest on Jupiter. The turbulent scene was spotted during its ninth close flyby of the planet, from 6,281 miles above.

17/11/17 23:42

A team of NASA scientists has developed an interactive tool to reveal how the melting of Earth’s ice sheets could affect cities around the world. It shows potential impacts for nearly 300 cities.

17/11/17 22:04

Researchers in Japan studied data going back to 1957. While solar maximums varied with each cycle, they same microwave emissions during solar minimum were the same.

17/11/17 20:51

Known as MX-1E,the craft is a similar size and shape to the R2D2 droid from Star Wars, and is slated to fly next year aboard a Rocket Lab Electron booster, which launches from New Zealand.

17/11/17 09:57

The first annual Flat Earth International Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, charged up to $249 (£188) per ticket and saw as many as 400 people attend from around the world.

16/11/17 18:40

A joint study from Nasa and the University of Minnesota found that eerie sounding noises are caused by sudden bursts of electrons in Earth's magnetic field.

16/11/17 00:48

Alien life could be found within the next few decades, according to NASA scientists leading the exhaustive search. Experts say the search is guided by characteristics of our own planet.

15/11/17 21:26

A new NASA visualization follows sea salt, dust and smoke from August to November to reveal how these particles are transported across parts of the world and how they can help track weather events.

14/11/17 23:31

NASA's Kilopower engines will use a uranium rector the size of a toilet roll to create heat, then a high efficiency Stirling engine would convert this to electricity.

14/11/17 18:40

NASA has been able to fly over the new trillion ton iceberg - the third biggest ever recorded - to see it up close for the first time. Scientists admit they were stunned by just how big it is.

13/11/17 23:48

NASA has revealed stunning visualizations of our ‘breathing’ planet, showing how vegetation has changed over the course of 20 years. The maps show plant life on land and in the oceans.

13/11/17 19:42

Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser was carried to an altitude of 10,000 and then dropped to glide to the ground and land on a runway at Edwards Air Force Base.

13/11/17 15:39

The image was taken on October 24 when Nasa's Juno spacecraft was 20,577 miles (33,115 kilometres) above the tops of the clouds of the planet.

10/11/17 23:38

The space agency revealed it will conduct the test in April 2019, to assess the rocket-powered tower’s ability to get astronauts to safety in the event of an emergency during ascent.

10/11/17 23:07

Engineer Bobak Ferdowsi has shared a hilarious glimpse into the staff struggles at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, after tweeting a sign which passive aggressively addresses littering.

10/11/17 17:57

An early concept of the STARC-ABL plane which uses air to generate propulsion is going to be tested in the next few months at Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio.

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