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US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 jacket sold for $2.7 million

The jacket worn by US astronaut Buzz Aldrin during his 1969 flight to the Moon aboard Apollo 11 was sold at auction for $2.7 million in New York recently, Sotheby's announced.
27 July 2022

How to track James Webb Space Telescope on the go

As the telescope continues its mission to uncover more mysteries of the universe, you can check its progress on the go.
21 July 2022

Webb starts hunt for the first stars and habitable worlds

The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun.
14 July 2022

Why I’m excited about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

We might finally know whether earth is the only planet capable of sustaining life.
13 July 2022

Lamiya, a proud part of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team

Lamiya Ashraf Mowla, a Bangladeshi-born astrophysicist, is a proud part of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team.
13 July 2022

Mystic images of the universe unveiled by James Webb Space Telescope

See the birth and death of stars and groupings of galaxies in this new batch of images.
12 July 2022

NASA reveals James Webb's first cosmic image

Here is the first cosmic image by James Webb Space Telescope.
12 July 2022

NASA to launch UFO study

NASA is launching a study of UFOs as part of a new push toward high-risk, high-impact science.
10 June 2022

Does Outer Space Need to Get Marie Kondo’d?

The issue of space junk is getting more pressing than ever before.
22 June 2021

Nasa unveils its first electric airplane

Nasa, most prominent for its many Florida-launched exploits into space, showcased an early version of its first all-electric experimental aircraft, the X-57 “Maxwell,” on Friday at its lesser-known aeronautics lab in the California desert.
11 November 2019

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital resource ahead of a planned human return to the moon in 2024 to possibly use it for astronauts to drink and to make rocket fuel, the US space agency says.
26 October 2019

Mahjabin Haque: The newest Bangladeshi woman to join NASA

Through her perseverance and hard work, Bangladesh-born Mahjabin Haque has been recruited as a software engineer at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
29 September 2019

The mission of a lifetime: A drone on Titan in 2034

NASA gives a project to send a drone quadcopter to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the green light, which comes with a budget of nearly a billion dollars.
5 July 2019

The Moon is shrinking: Study

The Moon is steadily shrinking, causing wrinkling on its surface and quakes, according to an analysis of imagery captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).
14 May 2019

After the Moon in 2024, NASA wants to reach Mars by 2033

NASA has made it clear they want astronauts back on the Moon in 2024, and now, they are zeroing in on the Red Planet -- the US space agency confirms that it wants humans to reach Mars by 2033.
4 April 2019

India’s ASAT weapons test a ‘terrible thing’, creates 400 pieces of debris: NASA

NASA says the creation of orbital debris has led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
2 April 2019

Nasa bids farewell to lost Mars rover

During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars, it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet -- but Nasa's Opportunity rover has analysed its last soil sample.
14 February 2019

NASA probe finds signs of water on asteroid Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered ingredients for water on a relatively nearby skyscraper-sized asteroid, a rocky acorn-shaped object that may hold clues to the origins of life on Earth, scientists say.
11 December 2018

Nasa launches probe to 'touch Sun'

Nasa yesterday launched a $1.5 billion spacecraft toward the Sun on a historic mission to protect the Earth by unveiling the mysteries of dangerous solar storms.
12 August 2018

Trump wants to dominate space, Moon and Mars

President Donald Trump boasts Monday of the US commercial space industry's deep wallet and enterprising spirit, and vows US dominance in exploration of the Moon and Mars, as well as any future space race.
19 June 2018