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What is NISAR, the NASA-ISRO satellite that will help scientists better understand climate change?
The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) will observe nearly the entire planet every 12 days, night and day, in all weather conditions. Likely to be launched into near-polar orbit in 2024, it will also help scientists gain a better understanding of the Earth’s crust
Watch: NASA shares images of the ‘Winter Wonderland’ Mars becomes as temperatures dip 123 degrees below zero
Watch: NASA shared a recent video taken by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL that showed what snow, frost, ice and a winter storm look like on Mars when the temperature dips 123 degrees Celsius below zero on the red planet.
Voyager missions find sharp increase in density of space beyond our solar system
Voyager 1 entered interstellar space in 2012, while Voyager 2 finally crossed the boundary marking the beginning of outer space in November 2018.
Tiny CubeSat mission ASTERIA breaks record for smallest satellite to detect an exoplanet
Researchers argue that the finding validates the role small spacecrafts can play in astrophysics and astronomy research.
NASA’s Curiosity continues Mars expedition as team behind the rover works from home due to Coronavirus
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said from 20 March none of the team members were present at its Southern California Lab.
NASA's Cassini mission data is still helping scientists understand the rings of Saturn
Cassini was in space for 20 years and has provided information that scientists are still studying and understanding.
Antarctica is losing six times more ice now than it was in the 1980s: Study
Antarctica's ice melting increased by 280 percent in the last sixteen years according to the study.
NASA's InSight seems to have landed at a slight angle, mission engineers not worried
NASA expects better images from InSight soon, once it sheds the dust covers protecting its cameras.
Mars may have enough Oxygen to sustain subsurface life today, study finds
Oxygen content of Martian rocks & 2 recent discoveries show that life may exist on the planet today.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft to run out of fuel, remain in dwarf planet Ceres's orbit
Dawn will lose its ability to communicate with Earth, but will remain in a silent orbit around Ceres.
NASA plans a 45-day effort to restore contact with Opportunity Rover on Mars
Opportunity rover has been out of contact since early June, due to a major dust storm on Mars.
Emmy Awards 2018 nominations: NASA's Cassini footage gets nod for Outstanding Original Interactive Program
After running out of fuel, Cassini began a whole new mission — its Grand Finale, where it journeyed into the unknown and ended with a plunge into Saturn
NASA's coverage of Cassini spacecraft's final moments earns Emmy nomination
In 2017, after nearly 20 years in space, NASA's Cassini orbiter went out of fuel.
NASA's Cassini captures eerie audio of interaction between Saturn and Enceladus
This recording was captured by the Radio Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument on 2 September 2017
Expected dust storm on Mars could explain the reason for its arid state
The study showed that rising air during the 2007 global dust storm led to over a hundred-fold increase in water vapour in Mars' middle atmosphere.
Near-earth asteroid flyby on 4 February will not pose any threat to Earth, says NASA
It was discovered in 2002 by the former NASA-sponsored Near Earth Asteroid Tracking project at the Maui Space Surveillance Site in Hawaii.
Images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft indicate dwarf planet Ceres is an active and evolving world
Since Dawn arrived in orbit at Ceres in March 2015, scientists have located more than 300 bright areas.
Scientists discover the farthest known supermassive black hole 800 million times the mass of our Sun
The discovery, published in the journal Nature, could provide fundamental information about the universe when it was only 5 percent of its current age.
NASA to send an unnamed rover vehicle to Mars in 2020; will search for signs of ancient microbial life
NASA has successfully landed spacecraft on Mars seven times and is using the International Space Station to prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars.
NASA's 2020 Mars mission rover will pack 23 cameras for enhanced vision
When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras. The subsequent Spirit and Opportunity rovers were designed with 10 cameras each.