Yet again, the area surrounding the Antarctic has surprised scientists. The region has been covered with record breaking ice. The NSIDC (National Snow and Ice Data Center) stated that the sea ice around the continent reached its peak on September 22.

To prepare for first launch, which is just under two months away, the emergency launch abort system (LAS) has been installed on NASA's path finding Orion crew capsule.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) scientific research satellite, Terra, has captured the images of Aral Sea, lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan. The images showed that once- vibrant sea has been shrinking to levels possibly not seen in centuries.

On Tuesday, the Delta IV Heavy rocket made by United Launch Alliance made its move to nearby Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

It has been revealed that NASA's Swift satellite has discovered the strongest, hottest and long-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from the nearby red dwarf star.

According to the scientists, initial blast from the recent series of explosions was almost 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded.

Almost after two years of its arrival on the Martian surface, NASA's rover Curiosity has finally done its drilling in its most ultimate target Mt. Sharp, which is a 3-mile-high mountain in the middle of Gale Crater.

According to NASA, during the early hours of Wednesday, October 8, Texoma residents will experience a total lunar eclipse. This eclipse is going to be the second in a series of four lunar eclipses that will occur at approximately six month intervals. This is known as a tetrad.

The $4.5 billion five-year contract by NASA to Boeing to develop a 'space taxi' to ferry US astronauts to the International Space Station (a $100 billion research complex that flies about 260 miles or 418 km above Earth) will also include a seat for paying tourists.