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New NASA tech to help drones spot best places to crash-land

The software links on-board drone components like batteries, motors to monitor drone's health

NASA launches satellite to explore the region where air meets space

The satellite called Icon, short for Ionospheric Connection Explorer rocketed into orbit following a two-year delay

How geological maps made the Apollo moon landings worthwhile

The scientific value of landing on the moon would have been diminished without studies to establish the context of the landing sites

Apollo 11 made us believe we could do anything, but it could hasten our end

This faith in technology has given us a false sense of security

Would your phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon like Apollo did?

The Apollo computer was state-of-the-art in its time, but what would have been different if the moon landing had the state-of-the-art computers that are available today?

Would your phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon like Apollo did?

The Apollo computer was state-of-the-art in its time, but what would have been different if the moon landing had the state-of-the-art computers that are available today?

50 yrs of moon landing: When the world paused to watch Armstrong's moonwalk

Officially more than 500 million people gathered around their sets to watch him leap from the ladder of Apollo 11's Eagle landing craft and onto the surface of the Sea of Tranquility

Trump or Nasa, who's really politicising climate science?

A Senior advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump has recommend stripping funding for climate research at Nasa

Nasa's golf-cart-sized Opportunity Rover feared dead as storm engulfed Mars

The six-wheeler rover landed in a region of Mars called Meridiani Planum on January 24, 2004, sending its first signal back to Earth from the surface of the Red Planet

NASA tests inflatable heat shield for Mars mission

NASA will first need to be packed into the tight confines of a rocket

New NASA telescope to help unlock secrets of universe

The wide-field infrared survey telescope will aid researchers in their efforts to explore the evolution of the cosmos, NASA said

NASA's Kepler probe spots youngest exoplanet ever

K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days

NASA's Hubble captures 'beating heart' of Crab Nebula

Crab Nebula is the most historic and intensively studied remnants of a supernova - an exploding star

NASA's Hubble telescope spots a planet orbiting 2 stars

Hubble observations represent the first time such a three-body system has been confirmed using the gravitational micro lensing technique

Vikram had hard landing; NASA releases images of Chandrayaan 2 landing site

Vikram was scheduled to touch down on September. 7. This event was India's first attempt at a soft landing on the Moon

A bitter divorce battle on Earth led to claims of a crime in space

Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year

How big is moon and how far is it? Let's put facts into perspective

The equatorial diameter of the Moon is about 3,476km, while the polar diameter is 3,472km

Women yet to step on moon but well intertwined with it in literature

The moon is often envisaged as a female entity, which inspired poems on the theme of her gaze as she looks down on Earth benignly

Moonwalk to MTV: How photos by Apollo 11 astronauts influenced pop culture

People collected and shared prints of the Apollo 11 landing and moonwalk, which also became the basis for artist Andy Warhol's colored prints 'Moonwalk' and for MTV's logo in 1981

'One small step for a man': Did we mishear Armstrong's first words on Moon?

Armstrong insisted that he actually said, 'That's one small step for a man.' In fact, in the official transcript, Nasa transcribes the quote as 'that's one small step for (a) man'