A compact, suitcase-size nuclear power plant could one day generate electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the moon, Mars, or other planets, a U.S. research team says.
NASA's researchers are investigating ways to implement a bioregenerative system in space that would allow astronauts to grow certain plants.
Russian space vehicles are currently the only means of transporting crews and supplies to the station now that the U.S. space shuttle program has ended. The U.S. space shuttle flew its last mission in July.
U.S. and Russian space agency officials are considering temporarily pulling astronauts off of the International Space Station, The Wall Street Journal reports Monday, following last week's failure of an unmanned cargo mission to the international space station.
NASA said that astronauts may need to abandon the International Space Station in the fall. The announcement was prompted by Russian Soyuz rockets, which will be grounded until well into November. NASA said that it will be impossible to send new crews into space after current crews leave.
In what can be called a gem of a discovery, astronomers have found a rare planet made of diamonds, which would likely have oxygen apart from carbon. The carbon-based planet lies 4,000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens in our Milky Way galaxy.
Astronauts traveling to the Red Planet to script the first manned mission to Mars may have to grow their own food on the spacecraft.
NASA scientists, using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), have discovered the coldest class of star-like bodies, with temperatures as cool as the human body.
Astronomers have discovered the densest extrasolar planet made up of diamonds, lying 4000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Serpens (the Snake).
Have you ever thought of a trip, or vacation out of this world, somewhere in the space? Well, if your wallet is healthy enough to spend some, you would be able to watch our blue planet turning, while cavorting in zero-gravity with a cup of iced tea.
In a discovery bound to make many women happy, astronomers have found the single largest discovery of diamonds on a planet 4,000 light-years away, as part of the Milky Way's plane of stars.
Scientists provided new insights into a cosmic accident that has been streaming X-rays toward Earth since March. Two studies appearing in the Aug. 25 issue of the journal Nature revealed the information about the accident.
Astronomers at the University of Manchester have found an exotic planet made completely of diamond, which orbits a pulsar about 4,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens.
An exotic planet made of diamond? Yes, that's what the astronomers at the University of Manchester claimed to have spotted in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Astronomers from Berkeley have discovered the closest supernova, or exploded star, in 40 years in the Pinwheel Galaxy, located just 21 million light-years from Earth.
Astronomers at the University of Manchester have spotted something unusual in the Milky Way Galaxy, an exotic planet seemingly made of diamond.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured new raw images of Saturn's oddly shaped moon, Hyperion, during its second closest encounter with the cratered body on Aug. 25, 2011.
Astronomers have discovered a dense extrasolar planet that they believe is composed of ultradense diamond.
Astronomers caught a giant black hole swallowing a star for the first time. NASA released an animation of the rare event on Wednesday showing how the black hole shredded and consumed the star.
Listen up ladies (and any gentlemen with a spaceship), astronomers say they have discovered an exotic planet seemingly made of diamonds that's five times the size of Earth and with more mass than Jupiter. And get this, the diamond-crystal planet was discovered in our own Milky Way galaxy.
The supernova enabled by a star collapsing 21 million light years away began Tuesday. We may be able to see the astronomical event using binoculars soon.
As the East Coast prepares for Hurricane Irene to strike this weekend, NASA satellites have captured Hurricane Irene's track since it began as a tropical storm far out in the Atlantic Ocean.
