How NASA crews could sleep for 6 months on the journey to Mars
Existing medical techniques are laying the foundations for an ambitious research project to send astronauts into a deep sleep on a six-month journey to Mars,...
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NASA’s Maven spacecraft enters Mars orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Maven spacecraft entered orbit around Mars for an unprecedented study of the red planet’s atmosphere following a 442 million-mile...
Environement: NASA measures snowpack in California, Colorado
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The snowpack atop mountain peaks in California and Colorado has a new set of eyes watching from high above to better...
Did Comet ISON survive? Scientists see tiny hope
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A comet that gained an earthly following because of its bright tail visible from space was initially declared dead after grazing the...
Scientists confirm Voyager 1 probe is in interstellar space
(Reuters) – Scientists have been debating for more than a year whether NASA’s 36-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system and become the...
Voyager probe ‘leaves Solar System’
The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. Scientists say the probe’s instruments indicate it has moved beyond the...
New NASA spacecraft to investigate moon mystery
(Reuters) – More than 40 years after the last Apollo astronauts left the moon, NASA is preparing to launch a small robotic spacecraft to investigate...
NASA launches robotic explorer to moon from Va.
NASA’s newest robotic explorer rocketed into space late Friday in an unprecedented moonshot from Virginia that dazzled sky watchers along the East Coast. But the...
NASA’s Mars rover spies solar eclipse
(Reuters) – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity turned its cameras skyward to snap pictures of the planet’s moon, Phobos, passing in front of the sun, images...