Saturday night NASA launched the space shuttle Discovery into orbit, for a 14 day mission on the International Space Station. The shuttle is transporting into orbit one of the key sections of the Japanese Kibo laboratory and a set of installations for the toilet facilities onboard the Space Station.
The crew is made up of 7 [...]

Founded in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), replaced the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Since then, NASA began to explore the outer space, and, on May 5 1961, Alan Shepard was the first man to travel outside our atmosphere for 15 minutes.

This year, NASA is going to celebrate its 50 [...]

The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has proved to be an extraordinary spacecraft for studying solar flares. Data that was retrieved clearly shows that powerful starquakes ripple around the Sun, being caused by the solar flares which explode above its surface.
By discovering how the ripples move around the Sun has allowed scientists to gain [...]

Moons which have other moons in orbit haven’t been found in our solar system, and researchers are now trying to look for this phenomena in other solar systems as well. Even though asteroids with moons have been found, scientists at NASA say that it’s very hard for moons to have their own moons.
Seth Shostak from [...]