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  NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on Red Planet

  April 04, 2021 23:23 IST

  Ingenuity flew to Mars while being attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover, which made a February 18 touch down on the Red Planet.

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  NASA to conduct water-drop tests for its Orion spacecraft structure on Tuesday

  April 04, 2021 6:48 IST

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will air live its series of impact tests on the crew capsule of its Orion spacecraft to check how it responds to splashing into the water, the space agency has said.

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  Births among endangered right whales highest since 2015

  April 03, 2021 21:17 IST

  North Atlantic right whales gave birth over the winter in greater numbers than scientists have seen since 2015, an encouraging sign for researchers who became alarmed three years ago when the critically endangered species produced no known offspring at all. 

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  Study identifies possible Covid drugs

  April 03, 2021 14:55 IST

  A team of researchers has identified nine potential new Covid-19 treatments, including three, that were already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating other diseases.

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  Back in India, 4 astronauts to stay on busy training schedule

  April 03, 2021 7:50 IST

  The four Indian astronauts returned to India last month after completing their training in Russia and will undergo different kinds of training in Chennai, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said.

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  Piece of SpaceX rocket debris lands at Washington state farm

  April 03, 2021 6:56 IST

  The approximately 5-foot (1.5-meter) composite-overwrapped pressure vessel used for storing helium left a nearly 4-inch (10.16-centimeter) dent in the ground, Grant County sheriff's spokesman Kyle Foreman said.

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  Mars helicopter, designed by IIT-Madras alumnus Bob Balaram, to fly over Martian skies on April 11

  April 02, 2021 17:27 IST

  The decision to push back the date of the launch from April 8 to April 11 was announced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on Thursday.

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  NASA exchanges data of its Mars mission with India, China, UAE & European Space Agency

  March 31, 2021 15:54 IST

  The US space agency NASA has exchanged data of its current Mars mission with its counterparts in China, India, the UAE and the European Space Agency to lower the risk of a collision as their spacecraft were also currently hovering the red planet, a media report said on Wednesday.  

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  SpaceX launches test rocket, breaks apart before landing

  March 30, 2021 20:38 IST

  SpaceX chalked up another failed landing Tuesday for its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship, as the prototype Mars rocket broke apart right before touchdown.  

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  Two space fans get seats on billionaire's private flight

  March 30, 2021 19:22 IST

  The new passengers: Sian Proctor, a community college educator in Tempe, Arizona, and Chris Sembroski, a former Air Force missileman from Everett, Washington. They will join flight sponsor Jared Isaacman and another passenger for three days in orbit this fall.

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  Will asteroid Apophis hit Earth in 2068? Here's what NASA says

  March 28, 2021 20:20 IST

  In a big relief, NASA has ruled out the possibility of asteroid Apophis impacting Earth in 2068, saying that our planet is safe from this notorious space rock for at least a century.

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  Coronavirus variants from Brazil, South Africa are less susceptible to antibodies, says study

  March 28, 2021 16:38 IST

  According to the research, published in the journal Cell, recovery from COVID-19 as well as vaccination may offer only incomplete protection against these mutant virus forms.

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  ISRO revises launch schedule of GISAT-1 after "minor issue" with satellite

  March 26, 2021 20:14 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organisation has revised the launch schedule of geo imaging satellite GISAT-1 on board GSLV-F10 rocket following a "minor issue" with the spacecraft.

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  New findings may shed light on why the UK variant of COVID-19 is more infectious

  March 26, 2021 17:33 IST

  The B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 was discovered in Kent, UK in December 2020, and has since spread across the globe, contributing to the increase in cases being seen in Europe and Britain's own second wave of the pandemic earlier in the year, Shefield University said in a press release on Friday.

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  First historic Mars helicopter flight on April 8: NASA

  March 25, 2021 7:47 IST

  NASA will attempt to fly the Ingenuity mini-helicopter, currently attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover, on Mars on April 8, in the first such attempt on another planet.

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  Part of Wright brothers’ 1st airplane on NASA’s Mars chopper

  March 24, 2021 15:30 IST

  NASA’s experimental Martian helicopter holds a small swatch of fabric from the 1903 Wright Flyer, the space agency revealed Tuesday. 

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  4 Indian cosmonauts complete training in Russia for Gaganyaan mission

  March 23, 2021 17:20 IST

  The four cosmonauts shortlisted for Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission, have completed their training in Russia, according to an official Russian statement here on Tuesday. 

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  NASA set to fly mini helicopter on Mars to explore Red Planet

  March 23, 2021 12:42 IST

  The teams operating Ingenuity and NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover have chosen the flight zone where the helicopter will attempt the first powered, controlled flights on another planet.

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  ISRO makes breakthrough demonstration of free-space Quantum Key Distribution over 300 metres

  March 22, 2021 23:33 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Monday it has successfully demonstrated free-space Quantum Communication over a distance of 300 metres, for the first time in the country. 

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  Biggest asteroid to pass by Earth this year comes closest

  March 21, 2021 21:49 IST

  The largest asteroid to visit Earth in 2021 is passing by our planet on Sunday at a speed of about 124,000 kph. Although this speed is faster than the speed at which most asteroids encounter Earth, there is no threat of a collision with our planet, NASA said earlier this month.  

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  Faster spread of some coronavirus variants could be due to sturdier protein, say scientists

  March 21, 2021 15:28 IST

  The spike protein of the novel coronavirus, which enables it to infect human cells, is more stable in faster spreading versions of the virus, such as the ones first reported in the UK and South Africa, compared to the original form of the pathogen from Wuhan, China, says a new study. 

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  Coronavirus circulated undetected months before first COVID-19 cases in China: Study

  March 19, 2021 13:56 IST

  The novel coronavirus was likely circulating undetected for at most two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December 2019, according to a study. 

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  NASA's Artemis Moon rocket passes key test

  March 19, 2021 12:41 IST

  NASA has completed a crucial hot fire test of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket which is designed to power future Moon missions under the agency's Artemis programme.

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  Mars rover sends back grinding, squealing sounds of driving

  March 18, 2021 22:14 IST

  NASA’s newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet — a grinding, clanking, banging affair that by Earth standards would be pretty worrisome.  

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  No cigar: Interstellar object is cookie-shaped planet shard

  March 18, 2021 11:37 IST

  Our solar system’s first known interstellar visitor is neither a comet nor asteroid as first suspected and looks nothing like a cigar.

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  Mars may be hiding most of its ‘missing’ water underground: NASA-funded study

  March 17, 2021 14:42 IST

  The researchers from California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) found that around four billion years ago, Mars was home to enough water to have covered the whole planet in an ocean about 100 to 1,500 metres deep.

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  Antarctic temperature to rise by 2044: Study

  March 16, 2021 19:50 IST

  The projections also showed that precipitation -- a threat to ice if it manifests as rain -- will likely increase on the peninsula by about 5 per cent to 10 per cent over that same time period.

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  Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China

  March 15, 2021 7:40 IST

  Bat-hunting scientists, particularly those in China, have come under fire since the emergence of COVID-19, which is believed to have originated from the animals.