NASA spacecraft finally gets up close with Pluto

Humanity has visited Pluto for the first time, opening a new chapter in space exploration. This is the last and most detailed image sent to Earth before the spacecraft’s closest approach to......

MESSENGER spacecraft makes crashing finale after 11-yr mission

NASA has completed its MESSENGER mission with expected impact on Mercury's surface. The planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end on Thursday when it slammed......

We will find alien life by 2025: NASA chief scientist

Signs of alien life will be detected by 2025, while "definitive evidence" of extra-terrestrial beings may be found within the next 20 to 30 years, top NASA scientists say. "I think we're going to......

Revealed: An ocean buried in Jupiter's moon Ganymede

American space agency NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found strong evidence of a massive saltwater ocean under the icy crust of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede that could potentially support......