Space

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes Aloft

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches Milestone of Being Aloft for 30 Minutes

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter to the Red Planet has reached an airborne milestone that the team never considered achievable.

Dec 16, 2021

NASA's Parker Mission Enters Sun's Atmosphere; First Milestone Ever in Solar Probe

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.

Dec 15, 2021

Yutu-2 of Chang'e 4 mission continues exploration

Mystery house on moon: Chinese robotic rover spots cube-shaped object; netizens start guessing [details]

While the rover will spend the next 2-3 lunar days getting closer to the object, the possibilities of it being an obelisk or alien have been ruled out.

Dec 6, 2021

Mystery behind high abundance of Lithium in some evolved stars traced

Bengaluru scientists find reason behind mystery of high abundance of Lithium in some stars

The reason behind the high abundance of Lithium in some stars has remained a puzzle since the models of how stars evolve predict the Lithium must have been destroyed in the hot plasma of the star.

Dec 1, 2021

New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total count; none like Earth [read now]

Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. None of the newly confirmed planets are believed to be Earth-like or in the habitable zone of their parent stars.

Nov 30, 2021

One Year From Launch: US-European SWOT Satellite Getting Ready to Track Water Resources on Earth

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft enters the home stretch as an international team prepares the next-generation satellite for launch in 2022.The SWOT mission is just a year out from launch, and the final set of tests on the spacecraft have started.

Nov 30, 2021

Asteroid of Taj Mahal Size to Pass by Earth Today; NASA Lists it Among 5 Under Watch

The approaching asteroid will pass by our planet today, about 3.8 million miles away. The Asteroid Watch dashboard tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to Earth.

Nov 29, 2021

Avenge the dinosaurs, Elon Musk tells NASA amid DART spacecraft launch [details]

Once DART identifies and locks onto Dimorphos, it will kinetically impact the asteroid moonlet at a speed of roughly 24,000 kilometres per hour and shift its orbit.

Nov 25, 2021

NASA all set to launch milestone asteroid defence mission DART today [Watch Live]

The US space agency is all set to launch its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid, on Wednesday.

Nov 24, 2021

NASA, SpaceX finally launch 4 astronauts, including Raja Chari, on Crew-3 mission to ISS

NASA and the Elon Musk-owned private rocket company SpaceX have finally launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

Nov 11, 2021

Crew-2 astronauts from NASA-SpaceX successfully return to Earth after 199 days in orbit

The crew spent 199 days in orbit, beating NASA's earlier this year's SpaceX Crew-1 mission's record of 168 days.

Nov 10, 2021

NASA's Landsat 9 Images Show Altering Landscapes of Himalayas; See Stunning Images captured So Far

The amazing Landsat 9 images let us make decisions on water use, wildfire consequences, coral reef deterioration, glacier and ice shelf retreat, and tropical deforestation.

Nov 9, 2021

Catch The Frost Moon: Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse of The Century on Nov 19 [Where to Watch]

It is estimated that the lunar eclipse will last for three hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds and it will be visible from the north eastern states of India

Nov 6, 2021

Asteroid 2021 UA1 just passed by Earth 3,000 km away, unnoticed by scientists

The asteroid 2021 UA1 reached Earth from behind, moving in the opposite direction of the Sun.

Nov 1, 2021

Scientists detect new phase of water inside other planets

To create superionic ice, the scientists compressed water between two diamonds, the hardest substance on Earth, simulating the tremendous pressure seen at the planet's core.

Oct 30, 2021

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