NASA is already gearing up for its next mission to Mars with a more tricked-out, updated version of the Curiosity Mars rover, the agency announced recently. New hardware for the Mars 2020 mission includes seven new instruments, new wheels, a new drill to capture rock cores and a caching system with a miniature robotic arm to store the samples. The new gear …

While in India, ISRO’S successfully launched 7 satellites, NASA made strides far beyond.NASA’s Kepler and Swift missions have discovered a batch of 18 stars that spins so hard that the shape gets flattened, “squashed into pumpkin-like shapes”. Astronomers at NASA think this is the result ofbinary systems where two sun-like stars merge, as per NASA’s official site. Steve Howell, a …

The aerospace engineers of NASA moved a step ahead on writing names on a gold plate when they successfully conducted most powerful rocket engine RS-25 test for Space Launch System (SLS) on July 29, 2016. The engine no. 0528 got designed to collect critical performance data on behalf of the respective Rocket. The engine ignited with a huge roar for 650 …