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NASA awards contract for aerial drone that can survive on Venus

Jul 8, 2018

In light of renewed scientific interest in the planet, NASA is working toward an aerial drone that could survive in the harsh upper atmosphere of Venus, according to Science Alert. Now, the agency has taken a f...

New Horizons sends new pictures of Pluto’s Icy Mountains and Moon Charon

Cody Gash

Jul 17, 2015

Innovation

A decade-long journey to a not so famous planet, NASA‘s New Horizons is beaming pictures that are enriching our knowledge about the dwarf planet. The spacecraft, the size of a piano will continue to render its...

NASA New Horizon probe takes more detailed Images of Pluto

Bryan M Zarpentine

May 28, 2015

Innovation

A NASA spacecraft is closing in on Pluto, and sending back pictures that have scientists excited. Between May 8 and May 12, the New Horizon probe took photographs of Pluto using its Long-Range Reconnaissance Im...

Messenger’s historic voyage ended with crash but NASA has learned a lot

Cody Gash

May 9, 2015

Innovation

NASA – A historic voyage by Scientists has come to an end although it cannot be defined to have ended on a good note. The least expected happened after a crash of the spacecraft that was carrying analytical ins...

NASA Kepler Spacecraft discovers second exoplanet in quadruple star system

Cody Gash

Mar 6, 2015

Innovation

For a very long time, the sun has been the commonly known star among the many planets of the solar system. However, according to Dr Lewis Roberts from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and his group ...

NASA Dawn Spacecraft discovers two new strange bright spots on dwarf planet CERES

Amanda

Feb 26, 2015

Innovation

NASA - Latest images of dwarf planet, Ceres, captured by Spacecraft Dawn shows two mystique bright spots on the surface of outermost planet which revolves around the Sun. These new bright spots that are still a...

Astronomers pinpoints close encounter of Scholz’s Red dwarf star and the Sun happened 70000 years ago

Amanda

Feb 18, 2015

Innovation

A group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile, and South Africa have together pinpointed a near miss between our Solar System and a dim red-dwarf, known as "Scholz's star". In the ‘close’ encounter that too...

Astronomers discover five Earth sized planets orbiting 11.2 billion year old star

Amanda

Jan 27, 2015

Innovation

A team of astronomers drawn from all over the world discovered a new solar system consisting of five Earth sized planets revolving around an 11.2 billion year old sun (Kepler-444) while poring over data sent by...

New analysis say two more Planets may lurk in our Solar System

Cody Gash

Jan 17, 2015

Innovation

A new scientific analysis is threatening to shake up the previous understanding of the makeup of our solar system. Scientists say that there could be at least two more planet members of our solar system, an ass...

Magnetic Fields of Meteorite Semarkona provides evidence of our solar system formation

Charles Omedo

Nov 16, 2014

Innovation

Scientists have been untiring in searching for clues about how our Earth was formed, and how our solar system came to be, but they were recently taken aback when they found significant evidence of creation in a...

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