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Trump issues order for new “Space Force” military branch

Jun 21, 2018

President Donald Trump has issued a policy directive calling for the establishment of an additional branch of the US military, a “Space Force” that will focus on establishing “American dominance in space,” he s...

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...

Hubble Telescope unravel shocking facts about NASTY One Wolf-Rayet star

Platonium

May 24, 2015

Innovation

WASHINGTON - A recently discovered star by Hubble Space Telescope has been nicknamed the ‘Nasty One’. The particular star was first observed years ago but it is for the first time that astronomers have seen the...

NASA nicknames disk like Wolf-Rayet Star Nasty One

Jamie Hacking

May 23, 2015

Innovation

Russian Proton-M rocket explodes over Siberia, destroying Mexican satellite cargo

Charles Omedo

May 17, 2015

Innovation

A Russian Proton-M rocket that was supposed to deliver a Mexican satellite into space has developed serious problems soon after takeoff from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, and crashed over S...

Strangulation theory says Galaxies often suffocated to death due to star formation

Jamie Hacking

May 14, 2015

Innovation

Royal Observatory - Death of galaxies can be forecast far in advance by observing their telltale sign when they have finished producing new stars. According to a report, what follows is a sluggish death precipi...

NASA Looks towards Cheaper substitutes to get Humans on Mars

Cody Gash

May 10, 2015

Innovation

NASA- In the light of recent budget cuts, NASA has been trying to find cheaper ways to get to mars. The space agency is now considering Solar Electric propulsion systems (SEP), as the most efficient yet cost ef...

Scientists find Magnetic connection of Mercury dated back to 4 billion years

Cody Gash

May 10, 2015

Innovation

NASA - A team of scientists studying rocks on the surface of Mercury with the help of Messenger spacecraft's data has come to know that Mercury's magnetic field was much stronger 4 billion years ago than it's t...

NASA makes Mars colonization a public affair by inviting opinions and ideas for mission

Cody Gash

May 9, 2015

Innovation

NASA – In the year 1969 astronauts took their first walk on the moon. That said and in their strong desire to discover what happens in Mars; Scientists are already hard cracking their minds on how they can buil...

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