The space shuttle Atlantis took off Monday from the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, on a mission to bring vital supplies and spare parts to the nearly-completed International Space Station before the US shuttles retire next year.
The North American Space Agency (NASA) announced that it has discovered "a significant amount" of frozen water in one of the permanently shadowed craters of the moon.
A prototype rocket designed to replace the aging US space shuttle fleet successfully took off for a two-minute test flight Wednesday after weather-related delays.
The US space agency NASA has crashed a rocket into a crater on the south pole of the moon in the hope of detecting water. This is the first mission of the Constellation programme, which aims to take Americans back to the moon by 2020.
US astronomers say a new ring identified around Saturn could be the largest ever found in the Solar System. The circle starts about six million kilometres from Saturn and extends outwardly by another 12 million kilometres.
Molecules of water exist on the moon, according to reports based on the findings of the latest space missions. Data from India’s maiden moon mission found spectrographic evidence of water, which appears to concentrate closer to the poles.
After two unsuccessful landing attempts in Florida due to extreme weather conditions, the Discovery shuttle landed safely in California where it was diverted by NASA.
NASA was forced to twice delay the landing of its Discovery shuttle due to stormy weather in Florida. The Discovery and its seven-man crew could end up landing in California on Friday if bad weather conditions continue in Florida.
A problem with the hydrogen fuel tank valve of the Discovery shuttle forced Nasa to delay its launch until Saturday. The US space agency has already been prevented from launching Discovery because of stormy weather.
