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  Indian-American Raja Chari picked by NASA for Artemis Moon missions

  December 10, 2020 19:51 IST

  NASA has selected an initial team of 18 astronauts, including Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari, to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next lunar missions, including sending the first woman and next man to walk on the lunar surface in 2024.  

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  SpaceX launches Starship on highest test flight, crash-lands

  December 10, 2020 10:14 IST

  Two lower, shorter SpaceX test flights earlier this year from Boca Chica, Texas — a quiet coastal village before SpaceX moved in — used more rudimentary versions of Starship. Essentially cylindrical cans and single Raptor engines, these early vehicles reached altitudes of 490 feet (150 meters).

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  Test flight of SpaceX’s Starship aborted at last second

  December 09, 2020 20:28 IST

  The first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX’s futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second in Texas on Tuesday. SpaceX came close to launching a prototype of the rocketship that company chief Elon Musk is designing to carry people to Mars. 

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  SpaceX capsules parked side-by-side at station for 1st time

  December 09, 2020 12:14 IST

  The cargo Dragon will remain at the space station for a month, before parachuting into the Atlantic with science samples and discarded gear. The crew Dragon will stay up until spring.

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  'Aliens exist and Trump knows about it': Former Israeli space chief's sensational claims

  December 09, 2020 10:52 IST

  Former Israeli space chief Haim Eshed has claimed that aliens exist and Donald Trump knows about it.

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  COVID-19: Antibody levels in patients may fade quickly post recovery, says study

  December 08, 2020 19:49 IST

  Antibodies against the novel coronavirus may "disappear quickly" following recovery, says a new study which assessed more than 250 COVID-19 patients up to five months post-infection.

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  Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin looks to make history, to send first woman to moon | All you need to know

  December 07, 2020 13:59 IST

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin is all set to take the first woman to the moon's surface. The Amazon billionaire and world’s richest man announced his plans in a video post on Instagram. "This (BE-7) is the engine that will take the first woman to the surface of the Moon," Bezos said in a post on Instagram with a video of the engine test this week at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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  Double Dragons: SpaceX launches space station supplies

  December 06, 2020 23:05 IST

  SpaceX launched a newer, bigger version of its Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first time the company has two capsules in orbit at the same time.

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  Japanese space officials eager to analyze asteroid samples

  December 06, 2020 21:22 IST

  Japanese space officials said they are excited about the return of a capsule that landed safely in the Australian Outback on Sunday while carrying soil samples from a distant asteroid, and that they are eager to begin analyzing the “treasure” inside.  

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  Coronavirus may cause long-term erectile dysfunction in men, expert warns

  December 06, 2020 20:59 IST

  ​Experts have been warning of long-term complications that the coronavirus can cause. An infectious disease expert has recently warned about the possibility of "erectile dysfunction" in men.   

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  New data reveals early origins of solar system, life on Earth

  December 06, 2020 18:34 IST

  A new research using magnetism has provided significant data that will help inform scientists about the early origins of the solar system and why some planets such as Earth became habitable and were able to sustain conditions conducive for life, while other planets, such as Mars, did not.

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  Great Conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn to dazzle skygazers on Dec 21. Check details

  December 06, 2020 16:36 IST

  This year's winter solstice will bring a rare sight to our night skies. In a rare celestial event, Jupiter and Saturn will be seen very close to each other appearing like one bright star in the sky on December 21.

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  IISc researchers working on COVID-19 detection using Raman spectroscopy, artificial intelligence

  December 06, 2020 14:51 IST

  Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, are working on rapid identification of COVID-19 biomarkers in blood plasma using Raman spectroscopy and artificial intelligence.

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  This antiviral drug blocks COVID-19 virus within 24 hrs: Study

  December 05, 2020 15:57 IST

  Researchers have discovered that the treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (Covid-19) with a new antiviral drug, MK-4482/EIDD-2801 or Molnupiravir, completely suppresses the virus transmission within 24 hours.

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  How airflow inside car may affect COVID-19 transmission risk decoded

  December 05, 2020 15:34 IST

  Using computer simulations, scientists have analysed the airflow patterns inside a car's passenger cabin, shedding light on the potential ways to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission while sharing rides with others.

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  People with rare autoimmune diseases at death risk during Covid: Study

  December 05, 2020 14:13 IST

  Researchers have now found that people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases are at a greater risk of dying at a younger age amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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  ISRO's PSLV rocket to launch Pixxel's earth imaging satellite

  December 05, 2020 8:28 IST

  According to ISRO, on Thursday, NewSpace India had signed the agreement with Pixxel to launch its first satellite.

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  NASA astronauts harvest first radish crop on International Space Station | Photo

  December 04, 2020 17:52 IST

  On Nov. 30, 2020, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins harvested radish plants growing in the Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) aboard the International Space Station.

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  Oral drug blocks coronavirus transmission in ferrets within 24 hours: Study

  December 04, 2020 16:33 IST

  Treating novel coronavirus infection in ferrets with the antiviral drug Molnupiravir completely suppressed virus transmission among the mammals within 24 hours, reports a new study which may lead to a new therapeutic to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  China's spacecraft takes off from moon with lunar samples

  December 04, 2020 12:46 IST

  A Chinese spacecraft carrying the country's first lunar samples has started its return journey from the moon, according to the country's space authority. 

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  NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid

  December 03, 2020 19:03 IST

  A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinched its identity, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  

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  China: Moon probe preparing to return rock samples to Earth

  December 03, 2020 17:15 IST

  ​China said Thursday its latest lunar probe has finished taking samples of the moon’s surface and sealed them within the spacecraft for return to Earth, the first time such a mission has been attempted by any country in more than 40 years.  

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  Greenland ice sheet faces irreversible melting, say scientists

  December 03, 2020 17:12 IST

  ​The massive Greenland ice sheet could be facing a point of no return, beyond which it may no longer fully regrow, permanently changing sea levels around the world, warns a new study.  

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  COVID-19: Safe UV light could be used to sterilise high-risk indoor environments, says study

  December 02, 2020 18:08 IST

  Using computer simulations, scientists have shown that the relatively safer far-ultraviolet C (UVC) light can be used to disinfect in-room air, an advance that may pave the way for a new solution to kill aerosolised novel coronavirus in enclosed environments such as hospitals.

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  China spacecraft collects moon samples to take back to Earth

  December 02, 2020 17:45 IST

  ​A Chinese spacecraft took samples of the moon’s surface Wednesday as part of a mission to bring lunar rocks back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government said, adding to a string of successes for Beijing’s increasingly ambitious space program.  

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  New single dose vaccine shows protection against COVID-19: Study

  December 02, 2020 15:56 IST

  Scientists have developed a new vaccine candidate against COVID-19 based on the yellow fever vaccine, a single dose of which protects hamsters and monkeys from infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. 

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  China says probe sent to retrieve lunar rocks lands on moon

  December 01, 2020 22:28 IST

  A Chinese robot probe sent to return lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s landed on the moon Tuesday, the government announced, adding to a string of increasingly bold space missions by Beijing.

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  Earth inching closer to supermassive black hole at 7 km per second, reveals study

  December 01, 2020 16:41 IST

  Earth is inching closer to a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way galaxy at 7 km per second, a study has found out. According to a map issued by Japanese radio astronomy project VERA, earth in the past 35 years has travelled some 1,900 light years and is now sitting at a distance of 25,800 light years from the black hole.