Washington, October 22 (IANS): NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid, is preparing to launch next month -- world's first mission to t
Washington, October 16 (IANS) In a novel bid to seek out the origin of our solar system, the US space agency on Saturday launched the Lucy mission, the agency's first to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
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NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 (IANS): The clear blue skies over the national capital may go dark soon with dust and smoke as the stubble burning season nears. The satellite images by US space agency NASA have shown that
Washington, October 1 (IANS) US space agency NASA does not intend to rename its much-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, despite controversy over its name, according to media reports.
The $10 billion telesco
Washington, September 21 (IANS) NASA's much-awaited Artemis Lunar Mission in 2023, will land near the western edge of the Nobile Crater at the Moon's South Pole.
The Artemis rover -- Volatiles Invest
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 19 (IANS): NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound on the red planet during its 13th flight on September 4.
The mini-helicopter flew to the r
Washington, September 19 (IANS) NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has provided a 3D view of a rock-covered mound on the red planet during its 13th flight on September 4.
The mini-helicopter flew to the re
SAN FRANCISCO, SEPTEMBER 16 (IANS): Inspiration4, run by tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, has launched its first all-civilian mission to orbit on Thursday.
SpaceX's charity-driven mission named I
Cape Canaveral, February 23 (AP): NASA on Monday released the first high-quality video of a spacecraft landing on Mars, a three-minute trailer showing the enormous orange and white parachute hurtling open and t
Washington, February 22 (IANS): As NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on Mars last week, a new study by scientists at the US space agency and German Aerospace Centre has found that some microbes on Eart
New Delhi, February 19 (IANS): As the world watched the new NASA rover touchdown on the Martian surface, it was Indian American Swati Mohan who virtually spearheaded the successful landing of Perseverance that
Washington, February 10 (IANS): NASA has selected Elon Musk's private aerospace company SpaceX to provide launch services for two major components of the Gateway that will serve as a way station for future
Washington, January 22 (IANS): NASA has loaned a Moon rock for display in the Oval Office of the White House at the request of the Joe Biden administration.
The Moon rock now sits in the Oval Office in symbo
San Francisco, October 18 (IANS): NASA has awarded Nokia of the US $14.1 million to deploy a 4G cellular network on the moon.
The grant is part of $370 million worth of contracts signed under NASA's &quo
Washington, October 17 (IANS): NASA has awarded Houston-based Intuitive Machines approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022.
The payload will
Washington, September 22 (IANS): NASA has shared an update on its Artemis programme, including the latest plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024 at a cost of nearly $2
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U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that
Washington, July 30 (Reuters): NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday atop an Atlas 5 rocket on a $2.4 billion mission to search for tr
Washington, July 30 (Reuters): NASA's next-generation Mars rover Perseverance is set for liftoff from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Thursday on a mission to search for traces of potential past life on Ear
WASHINGTON, July 16 (Reuters): A solar probe built by the European Space Agency and NASA has delivered the closest photos ever taken of the sun's surface, revealing a landscape rife with thousands of t