Dr. Abigail Allwood, 41, is working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. She has now become the principal investigator for NASA's 2020 Mars Rover program. The program in aimed at sending a new Mars Rover to the Red Planet to check the feasibility of future manned explorations on Mars.

The biggest and brightest full moon of the year will coincide with fascinating meteor showers, say astronomers.

Corning Inc. has donated high-tech components worth $1.8 million for a space telescope, which is to be launched into space by a private group. By mid 2020s, the BoldlyGo Institute plans to put its telescope called ASTRO-1 telescope into orbit. Getting the components for primary mirror of the telescope will greatly contribute towards their goal, said the group.

According to a new study, a solar flare just missed earth in 2012. Two CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) were hurled by the Sun towards earth on July 23, 2012, traveling at 3,000 km/second. It was very fortunate that the CMEs went past earth by a very small margin. NASA has said that the electrical systems would have suffered serious damage if the CMEs in question had hit earth.

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope investigated the periphery of striking elliptical galaxy, Centaurus A. The new findings disclose complete details about the most remote portion of an elliptical galaxy. The galaxy has a spiral arms, bright center and swirling. In fact, the galaxy has a dim halo of stars rambling into space.

According to the latest observations from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft of NASA, there are over 200 lunar pits that could give shelter to the future astronauts.

Newly discovered 10,000-year-old rock paintings appear to be depicting about extraterrestrial visitors and UFOs that once visited earth. The cave paintings were found from Charama in the state of Chhattisgarh, India.

NASA has released an 'Announcement of Opportunity' to encourage the bringing of outside proposals for scientific instruments that may be installed on a mission to Europa, Jupiter's moon, according to a statement which was released this week. There is strong evidence of the presence of an ocean of water under the icy surface of Europa.