Nasa Mission

NASA mission to explore metal asteroid 'Psyche' worth thousands of quadrillions to launch in August 2022

The Psyche mission will be the first to investigate a world of metal rather than the usual combination of rock and ice.

NASA plans to send telescope into the stratosphere on a stadium-sized balloon to study the cosmos

The balloon stationed at a 40-km altitude will study far-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye.

NASA announced new SunRISE mission to study giant solar particle storms

SunRISE contains six CubeSats which will work together as a large radio telescope.

Mars 2020 rover will head to the Red Planet next year, announces NASA

Mars 2020 will explore a landscape shaped by water which is the 'Jezero Crater', the site of an ancient delta

NASA scraps all-women spacewalk because of a lack of well-fitted spacesuits at ISS

All 215 spacewalks by the space station crew till date have been male-only or mixed male-female teams.

US-German 15 year old GRACE mission comes to an end owing to a battery issue,

Following an age-related battery issue on GRACE-2 in September, it became apparent by mid-October that GRACE-2's remaining battery capacity would not be sufficient to operate its science instruments and telemetry transmitter.

NASA's Dawn mission gets second extension, spacecraft to remain in orbit around Ceres indefinitely

During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet, which it has been orbiting since March 2015

Nasa launches first mission to collect 'asteroid dust', may hold possible clues to life

Nasa hopes the solar-powered OSIRIS-REx will bring back the largest payload of space samples since the Apollo era of the 1960s and 1970s,

NASA spots mysterious bright lights on dwarf planet Ceres as explorer probe nears orbit

The discovery of another bright light on the dwarf planet Ceres has NASA scientists perplexed as the US Dawn probe prepares to enter the orbit of the largest object in the asteroid belt and possibly resolve the mystery.

NASA plans solar-powered airships, floating city for manned Venus mission

NASA plans to send solar-powered airships to explore Venus' atmosphere and to eventually establish a permanent human colony in a floating cloud city above the planet.