The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket that will carry it into space will be launched on Thursday morning. The launch window for Thursday runs from 10:23 a.m. to 11:23 a.m. It will be the second attempt to launch SDO. An earlier try was scrubbed because of...

For the first time is history, someone sent a "tweet" from the space. US astronaut TJ Creamer, on board the International Space Station (ISS), posted the "tweet" at 12.13 a.m on Friday, January 22, 2010. With this, Creamer became the first person to "tweet’ directly from...

US space agency NASA has chosen three space projects as final candidates for the agency’s next space venture to another celestial body in our solar system. The projects either aims to probe Venus, an asteroid or the Moon. The projects are part of the New Frontiers Program, designed to carry out...

An international team of planet hunters has found four new planets orbiting two nearby stars that are very similar to the Sun. These discoveries point the way to the detection of potentially habitable worlds within a few years. The planets were found by Australian, American and British astronomers using...

VISTA (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy), a new telescope, has just started work at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. VISTA is a survey telescope working at infrared wavelengths and is the world’s largest telescope dedicated to mapping...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s 2009-2019 Moon Work Design Contest in now open. Are you an engineering student? Want to work at NASA as paid interns? Moon Work Design Contest is a great opportunity for you because this year, the top-ranked students will be offered a chance...

US space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A welcome ceremony for the astronauts will be held on Monday, November 30, in Houston. The public is invited...

Ever heard about a Cannibal galaxy? Read on to find out more about an interesting galaxy that eats other galaxies! A new technique using near-infrared images, obtained with ESO’s 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope (NTT), allows astronomers to see through the opaque dust lanes of the giant cannibal...