Space Exploration News

NASA scientists presented a mosaic image of Vesta’s southern hemisphere, showing different rock or mineral types, created from images obtained by...

Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered a new region between our Solar system and interstellar space, stated in a press release from NASA. Data obtained from...

Researchers from the University of Nottingham have found that a microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans, which is biologically very similar to the human...

On Tuesday, 22 November at 20:25 UT, tracking station of European Space Agency (ESA) at Perth, Australia, established contact with Russia’s Phobos-Grunt...

The MESSENGER spacecraft captured an image, which gives us a close-up look at the crater Kalidasa, named for the renowned classical Sanskrit writer Kālidāsa,...

Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...

ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the sharpest images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites ever taken from space. Images show the...

Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. This delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit...

NASA has selected three proposals as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigation and in-space propulsion...

Heads of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency discussed future manned mission to Mars at Air Show MAKS-2011, was announced on Wednesday, August 17,2011. ‘Flight...

‘Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has been compiled and sent to the vibration test. A couple of weeks it will be shaken to simulate extreme space conditions’,...

Russia will spend about $ 1 billion for the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, said Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Roskosmos,...

After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks...