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NASA said Monday it is on track to launch its Maven probe to Mars next month to find out why the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere.

• 29 октября 2013, 18:10

Six Chinese scientists who were banned from a NASA astronomy conference are now welcome to register, resolving an international row over academic discrimination.

• 22 октября 2013, 12:17

Astronomers have autopsied a distant, broken apart planet and revealed signs of water and a rocky surface together for the first time, delighting scientists on the hunt for alien life.

• 12 октября 2013, 11:11

The US space agency Thursday vowed to reconsider the applications of Chinese scientists who were denied access to a NASA conference on security grounds.

• 11 октября 2013, 18:36

A controversial decision by NASA to bar Chinese scientists from a conference on exoplanets next month was deemed "inaccurate" Tuesday by the US congressman who wrote the law.

• 09 октября 2013, 18:41

Hopes of finding life on Mars suffered a setback after new findings from NASA's Curiosity rover detected only trace amounts of methane gas in the Red Planet's atmosphere.

• 21 сентября 2013, 13:30

Never before has a human-built spacecraft traveled so far. NASA's Voyager 1 probe has left the solar system and is wandering the galaxy.

• 13 сентября 2013, 17:51

NASA launched an unmanned spacecraft Friday that aims to study the Moon's atmosphere, the US space agency's third lunar probe in five years.

• 08 сентября 2013, 12:59

Stargazers will be treated to a spectacular fireball show early next week when Earth hits a belt of comet debris known as the Perseids.

• 09 августа 2013, 12:11

The dazzling success of NASA's rover Curiosity has paved the way for a human conquest of Mars, scientists say, almost one year after the groundbreaking probe first touched down on the Red Planet.

• 06 августа 2013, 10:30

A tiny new moon has been spotted circling Neptune -- the 14th known to be orbiting the faraway planet.

• 16 июля 2013, 14:54

The next robotic rover to explore Mars in 2020 should scour the surface of the red planet more closely than ever for signs of past life.

• 11 июля 2013, 11:29

European astronomers said on Friday they had devised a technique to detect water in the atmosphere of planets orbiting other stars.

• 05 июля 2013, 12:44

NASA scientists said Friday they were testing a prototype of a robot the US space agency hopes to send to Mars in 2020 in Chile's Atacama desert.

• 29 июня 2013, 19:51

Warming ocean waters are melting the Antarctic ice shelves from the bottom up, researchers said Thursday in the first comprehensive study of the thick platforms of floating ice.

• 14 июня 2013, 13:54

An international trio flying in a Russian capsule docked the International Space Station on Wednesday with a busy schedule full of space walks and an encounter with a pioneering US cargo craft.

• 29 мая 2013, 14:54

Water from the world's shrinking glaciers was responsible for almost a third of the rise in sea levels between 2003 and 2009.

• 17 мая 2013, 19:15

The ISS crew were preparing for an emergency spacewalk to fix a "very serious" leak of ammonia from the orbiting laboratory's power system seeping into space.

• 11 мая 2013, 14:03

Orbital Sciences, one of two private US firms chosen by NASA to shuttle cargo to the International Space Station, is preparing for the first launch of its Antares rocket Wednesday.

• 18 апреля 2013, 11:16

NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back.

• 22 марта 2013, 19:36