NASA’s make-or-break Mars mission has entered its landing phase on Monday morning. While the Curiosity rover attempts to land using a never-attempted sky crane, engineers back on Earth have no control over the pre-programmed sequence. The touchdown is scheduled for 5:31 GMT. NASA engineers will have to wait at least 14 minutes before learning the fate of Curiosity. That is if the Odyssey orbiter... 

The International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics (MITPAN) department of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) is reporting to President Putin today that our world faces the “imminent threat” of a “major” to “catastrophic” earthquake to occur within the fortnight due to an “extreme” solar storm that has begun hitting Earth’s atmosphere. According... 

The U.S. Armed Forces have increased the area of their country by 460 hectares. However, it does not go about the conquest of a territory during an armed conflict. The U.S. Corps of Engineers summed up the first results of a unique project to restore the land and deepen the seafloor in the Chesapeake Bay. Internet users monitored the progress of the work and suspected the presence of some insidious... 

Ruins: Homes and cars destroyed by the Waldo Canyon fire are seen from the air in a Colorado Springs neighbourhood The devastation caused by Colorado’s Waldo Canyon wildfire is so severe that the burn scar is clearly visible from space, as a incredible picture clearly shows. The shocking photograph showing the worst fire in the state’s history was taken from Nasa’s Terra satellite on July 4th,... 

A NASA-funded research project has discovered the existence of unexplained portals between the Earth and the Sun. A NASA-sponsored researcher has recently found “hidden portals” in the magnetic field of the Earth through examining data from a NASA satellite. Calling them “X-points” or “electron diffusion regions”, Jack Scudder, a researcher at the University of Iowa says the portals are... 

The US space program’s newest manned spacecraft has arrived in to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to finish preparations for a test flight in 2014. The Orion spacecraft was welcomed by NASA officials who hope the program will make manned flight beyond low-Earth orbit possible. “Now it is our time to put KSC’s knowledge, skills, and experience to work on Orion, the spacecraft that will... 

Some 500,000 asteroids are circulating near-Earth space and some of them may pose a real danger to our planet. But a US company says it plans to build a telescope that will be able to watch them. ­Some asteroids may collide with Earth between 2020 and 2030, and only about 10,000 out of half a million have been catalogued to date – so time is of the essence. But the B612 Foundation is certain its... 

Cassini’s View of Titan Titan, one of the most interesting objects in our Solar system, may have an ocean of water beneath its thick ice crust layer. Scientists say large deposits of water drastically increase the possibility of life on the moon. ­Saturn’s largest moon Titan is one of the few objects in our system that can boast a true atmosphere. The moon also has developed a climate, with... 

Artist’s impression of the new supersonic commercial passenger aircraft which will fly at speeds of 2,500 mph Aircraft enthusiasts are waiting with growing anticipation for the unveiling of plans for a supersonic jet that may be able to fly London to Sydney in just four hours. U.S. builders – helped by the Nasa space agency – will reveal the prototype successors to Concorde at the... 

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, pictured to the right of the gas giant in the Cassini spacecraft view. Scientists have discovered methane lakes in the tropical areas of Saturn’s moon Titan, one of which is about half the size of Utah’s Great Salt Lake, with a depth of at least one meter. The longstanding bodies of liquid were detected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which has been... 

Image taken by Cassini spacecraft shows plumes which spew out Saturn's moon Enceladus. Recent data and findings from NASA’s Cassini mission have revealed that Saturn’s moon Enceladus can provide scientists with a laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma. According to two papers published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, scientists can observe the theorized condition of... 

The image catches a shadow of the rover, located on the western rim of Endeavour, in the foreground and the giant crater in the distance. NASA’s Mars exploration rover Opportunity has returned an exceptional view of the large Martian Endeavour Crater, which spans about 22 kilometers in diameter. The image catches a shadow of the rover, located on the western rim of Endeavour, in the foreground and... 

Landing on a 50,000mph asteroid: The astronauts will drive vehicles on the surface - and pick up skills necessary to destroy 'planet killer' asteroids that may approach our planet in future The space agency Nasa is training a team of astronauts to land on asteroids after a three million mile journey – dwarfing the mere 239,000 miles travelled to the moon. The mission, planned for the... 

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has recorded the number of superflares or enormous releases of magnetic energy that can damage a nearby orbiting planet. According to the report published in the journal Nature, superflares are much less frequent on slow-rotating stars like our Sun. The biggest recorded flare on the Sun happened on September 1, 1859 and according to English astronomer Richard Carrington... 

The Italian researcher Matteo Ianneo who discovered some five interesting structures which look like human faces on Mars, last year, has discovered something stunning again. This time, the man claims to have found geometric structures on Mars which altogether look like a city. The newly discovered “city” comes an year after his first discovery in April 2011 in which he discovered a crystal-clear...