NASA marks 10 years since loss of Columbia, crew
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven...
View ArticleNew image reveals spiral galaxy’s secrets
Washington: Combination of data from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and observations by amateur astronomers has produced one of the best images yet of nearby spiral galaxy Messier 106. Located a...
View ArticleNasa to land craft on asteroid in 2018
LONDON: In the first such mission, Nasa is planning to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples from a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) that could better explain our...
View ArticleCuriosity Mars rover takes historic drill sample
Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover has finally drilled deep enough into a rock to acquire a powdered sample for analysis. The fine grey material from the 6cm-hole will be sieved and inspected before being...
View ArticleRussian Meteor: Chelyabinsk Cleaning Up After Meteor Blast
A day after a massive meteor exploded over this city in central Russia, a monumental cleanup effort is under way. Authorities have deployed around 24,000 troops and emergencies responders to help in...
View ArticleNASA Releases Video of Asteroid Flyby (VIDEO)
NASA has released a video of the asteroid that flew by Earth over the weekend and came closer to the planet that some communication satellites. The footage was recorded by a combination of radar...
View ArticleAstronomers discover new mini planet beyond Earth’s solar system
Zeenews Bureau Cape Canaveral: Astronomers from NASA’s Kepler project have discovered a mini planet which is the smallest known world outside our solar system. The planet is the innermost of three...
View ArticleTiniest planet ever discovered outside our solar system
NASA has discovered the smallest known planet outside our solar system which is slightly larger than the Moon and orbits its Sun like host star every 13 days. NASA’s Kepler space telescope detected the...
View ArticleFrom safe to active mode: Curiosity is back to work
MUMBAI: Nasa’s Curiosity rover is on path to recovery from last week’s memory glitch and has transitioned from a precautionary safe mode to an active status. Resumption of full operations is...
View ArticleAstronaut Sunita Williams hopes for US-India space collaboration
Kolkata: Hoping that NASA and ISRO will collaborate in the future, US astronaut Sunita Williams on Tuesday said the Indian government should accelerate its space programme as a lot of students and...
View ArticleTaking it easy on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is entering several weeks of low activity as the red planet moves behind the sun as viewed from Earth. The alignment interferes with normal communications. Curiosity will...
View ArticleNext from Nasa: Catch asteroid for manned mission
MUMBAI: Yes it is a scene straight from a thrilling sci-fi awaiting to turn into reality. What is it? The project involves capturing an asteroid, redirecting it near the moon which will be followed by...
View ArticleIndia’s maiden Mars mission on time: ISRO
Bangalore: Amid fears of a comet (C/2013 AI) heading into the Red Planet in 2014, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that its Rs 450-crore Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled to be...
View ArticleAsteroid could make a flyby at 8,600 km from Earth in 2026
Moscow: A celestial body 20 metres in diameter will pass dangerously close — 8,620 km — to the Earth’s surface in 13 years, an Italian astronomer has said. The flyby of the asteroid 2013 GM3 on April...
View ArticleMars rover back to work after break
NASA’s Curiosity rover is back in business after a weeks-long communication gap caused by solar interference. The rover had been on its own since early April, when Mars slipped behind the sun from...
View ArticleMars Curiosity rover selects second drilling target
Washington, May 10: NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars, which is searching for signs of life on the red planet, has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to...
View ArticleAstronauts replace pump to tackle ISS ammonia leak
Moscow: Expedition 35 crew members have removed and replaced a pump on a cooling system of the International Space Station (ISS) that may be leaking ammonia, NASA said. The astronauts Chris Cassidy and...
View ArticleNASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope disabled
Planet-hunting scientists were dealt a major blow Wednesday when NASA officials announced that a crucial wheel on the Kepler space telescope had ceased to function and that the craft had been placed in...
View ArticleGiant asteroid to buzz past Earth in two weeks
A gigantic asteroid will fly by Earth at the end of this month, making its closest approach for at least the next two centuries. On May 31, asteroid 1998 QE2, believed to be about 2.7 kilometres or...
View ArticleNASA’s observatory discovers exotic neutron stars
Washington, May 24: Scientists using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other satellites have found that magnetars — the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of...
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