Suomi NPP - NASA’s Earth watching satellite has captured a 8000×8000 pixel resolution image of the Earth – The Blue Marble 2012. Its one of the best, excellent and most beautiful Earth image ever. You always find many eye-catching and awsome Earth pictures but Suomi NPP’s Earth image is better than all. We may say that Suomi NPP has achieved one of its missions as it was sent to... 

A huge solar blast caused worst and strongest magnetic radiation storm – hits earth on Tuesday. It effected air traffic badly throughout Asia and other parts of the world. An ultraviolet flash was noticed and NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center warned about the expected radiation storm. However, its not harming population on earth. On January 22, 2012 a huge eruption on the Sun caused... 

Construction of a permanent base on the Moon isn’t a new idea. However, Russian Space Agency Roscosmos showing strong dedication for the construction of a permanent base on the moon. A dialogue is in process between  European Space Agency (ESA, NASA and Roscosmos.  Roscosmos chief Vladimir Popovkin said, “We are now discussing how to begin [the moon’s] exploration with NASA and... 

International Space Station (ISS) is the most expansive international scientificconstruction ever. However, it is built jointly by 16 nations including the U.S., Russia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and the member states of the European Space Agency. ISS has made space exploration much easy. Many people want to know what is inside ISS. Finally a video by “BestOfScience” revealed what is inside... 

NASA’s Kepler mission found 3 alien planets orbiting a star smaller than Sun. KOI-961, is a red dwarf star. The 3 alien planets are smaller than earth as their diameters are 0.78, 0.73 and 0.57 times of Earth. They are the smallest alien planets ever discovered. The KOI-961 exists in Constellation Cygnus  and 120 light-years away. The KOI-961 is very small and 1/6 of Sun. The Alien planets are... 

Are you willing to work for NASA? certainly yes! Then here is the opportunity for the programmers. NASA has launched a new website code.nasa.gov. The website will  introduce programmers to open-source projects on which they can work with the space agency. NASA will increase open source activities through this website. It will provide a forum for discussion over existing and upcoming projects.  Currently... 

              NASA launched a strikingly attractive time-lapse videos of Earth in November, 2011. More than 6.29 million people viewed it within 2 months. It was launched for public via The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. A video documentary is released by NASA showing how astronauts captured images from International Space Station for such an... 

China is going to intensify its space program by creating new spacecrafts, satellites and a space lab in next five years. They will enlarge space exploration volume with the collaboration of international community to make contributions toward space development. They already started working on the five year program by launching spacecraft Shenzhou-8 earlier this year. According to China’s Information... 

Good Bye, 2011………!!!!! Year 2011 is ending with good and bad times but it was full of inventions, Success, progress and excellent in technology. Communication  medias improved with iPhones/iPads, space technology strengthened with Kepler-22b discovery and Mars Curiosity Mission while smartphones packed the world in one’s hand. There is an enormous change in the computing and... 

Apollo 8 is setting ground-work for Apollo 11 as Christmas Day arrived. Three astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William celebrated Christmas day in space. A very rare experience by people. Celebrating Christmas day in space with three people only is interesting and sometimes sad as you far away from people on earth. For such occasion, one astronaut said, “The vast loneliness up here...