News articles tagged with 'mission'
Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars
— 2 Dec 2011 10:26 | BiologyThe astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?…
Scientists find evidence for 'great lake' on Europa
— 16 Nov 2011 21:37 | AstronomyIn a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water…
When is an asteroid not an asteroid?
— 30 Mar 2011 17:37 | AstronomyOn March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to…
MESSENGER spacecraft to swing into orbit around Mercury
— 15 Mar 2011 21:20 | AstronomyAt 8:45 p.m. EDT on March 17, the MESSENGER spacecraft will execute a 15-minute manoeuvre that will place it into orbit around Mercury, making it the first craft ever to do so, and…
Catching space weather in the act
— 18 Feb 2011 18:14 | EnvironmentClose to the globe, Earth's magnetic field wraps around the planet like a gigantic spherical web, curving in to touch Earth at the poles. But this isn't true as you get further from…
2-timing spacecraft has date with another comet
— 12 Feb 2011 20:10 | AstronomyNASA's Stardust spacecraft, equipped with the University of Chicago's Dust Flux Monitor Instrument (DFMI), is hurtling at more than 24,000 miles an hour toward a Valentine's Day encounter…
NASA's NPP satellite undergoing flight environmental testing
— 12 Feb 2011 19:55 | EnvironmentThe NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate/weather satellite is undergoing flight environmental testing at…
A race against time to find Apollo 14's lost voyagers
— 10 Feb 2011 20:04 | AstronomyIn communities all across the US, travellers that went to the moon and back with the Apollo 14 mission are living out their quiet lives. The voyagers in question are not astronauts.…
Stardust NExT set to meet its second comet
— 10 Feb 2011 19:07 | AstronomyStardust NExT must love comets. On Valentine's Day the spacecraft will get up close and personal with its second…
Earth-size planet candidates found in habitable zone
— 3 Feb 2011 17:18 | AstronomyNASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.…