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  Bengaluru-Based TeamIndus ties up with Japan's Hakuto to carry Rover to Moon

  December 21, 2016 23:36 IST

  In an effort to put a robot on ​moon, the Bengaluru-based TeamIndus has signed a commercial agreement to carry a robotic rover developed by Hakuto, the Japanese team in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, to the

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  ISRO exploring possibilities for setting up telescope on moon

  India | October 15, 2016 11:10 IST

  The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to set up a telescope on moon as a part of enhancing its scientific observation capacity, ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar said. Speaking to the students

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  Moon gets a complete 'makeover' every 81,000 years, reveals study of NASA data

  World | October 13, 2016 14:15 IST

  Like most of the other planets and stars in the solar system, the Moon has also seen several hits by asteroids and other space objects resulting in a complete makeover of its surface every 81,000

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  NASA’s Cassini finds subsurface ocean lying deep within Saturn's moon Dione

  World | October 06, 2016 18:46 IST

  A subsurface ocean lies deep within Saturn's moon Dione, offering a long lived habitable zone for microbial life, suggests a new data from the Cassini mission. Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus,

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  Life spotted? NASA's Hubble telescope finds water vapour plumes on Jupiter's largest moon Europa ( Video )

  World | September 27, 2016 12:16 IST

  NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has spotted water vapour plumes erupting off the surface on Jupiter's moon Europa, in a possible evidence of the existence of life there. Releasing new images captured from the Hubble

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  NASA’s Cassini spots mysterious ice cloud over Saturn's moon Titan

  World | September 22, 2016 16:47 IST

  In a revelation that goes contrary the understanding scientists had of the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon so far, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found an outlandish mysterious ice cloud over Titan. "The appearance of

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  See Pic! NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures THIS incredible image of Saturn's smallest moon ‘Pan’

  World | September 20, 2016 11:00 IST

  The planet Saturn has a large number of moons. It has big moons, small moons and uneven potato-shaped moons. The second innermost moon of Saturn is Pan, which is walnut-shaped and very small in

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  Google shortlists Indian team to send robot to the moon

  India | September 14, 2016 14:05 IST

  TeamIndus is the only entity from India shortlisted by Google for sending a robot to the moon

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  See Pics! 50 years ago, NASA spacecraft captured this first-ever image of Earth from the moon

  World | August 25, 2016 16:28 IST

  Fifty years ago, NASA’S Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the very first image of the Earth from the moon’s orbit. The photo was sent to Earth by the unmanned robotic spacecraft and was received at the

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  VIDEO! NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds flooded canyons on Saturn's moon Titan

  World | August 11, 2016 14:18 IST

  Scientists have found that some of the steep-sided canyons on Saturn's largest moon Titan are flooded with liquid hydrocarbons, based on the radar observation by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Such features on Saturn’s largest moon

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  Indian-American to launch spacecraft that will take human remains to moon at Rs 20 cr per kg

  World | August 10, 2016 8:48 IST

  A private firm owned by an Indian-American and licensed to launch a spacecraft and land on the moon is planning to take human remains to the Earth’s surface at Rs 20 crore per kilogram.

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  Spacecraft of private US company co-founded by Indian-American to land on moon in 2017

  India | August 04, 2016 13:39 IST

  The Federal Aviation Administration has given license to a US firm, co-founded by an Indian American, to launch a spacecraft and land on moon in 2017. The US private company revealed that this breakthrough US

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  US government approves first commercial mission to moon

  World | August 04, 2016 7:10 IST

  The US government has given a go ahead to fly the first commercial mission to a spaceship beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the moon. The Federal Aviation Administration gave clearance Wednesday to Moon Express

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  See picture! NASA releases this amazing image of second largest moon of Saturn taken by Cassini spacecraft

  World | August 09, 2016 11:48 IST

  The US space agency NASA has released a fascinating picture of Rhea, the second largest moon of Saturn just after Titan. The shot has been taken by its Cassini spacecraft. After Titan and Tethys which

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  Meet the first man who ‘peed’ on moon! He is not Neil Armstrong

  Blah | July 15, 2016 18:45 IST

  New Delhi: It’s been 47 years when astronaut Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man ever to walk on the moon. In fact, Neil created several more records that day, from being the

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  Saturn’s moon Titan can possibly support life, even without water: study

  World | July 11, 2016 7:28 IST

  A new study by scientists at Cornell University indicates that the chemical composition found on Saturn’s biggest moon Titan might breed life even without water.

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  Bangalore-based start-up will let young minds design an experiment for its mission to the moon

  India | June 30, 2016 8:24 IST

  Bengaluru: TeamIndus,a city-based space technology startup which is competing for the Google Lunar XPrize on Wednesday announced the launch of Lab2Moon, a competition of its own. The startup has launched a competition to challenge the

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  NASA to explore Saturn’s icy moons for life

  World | April 27, 2016 7:37 IST

  NASA scientists have proposed deploying a robotic system to explore the exotic environment of the subsurface oceans of Saturn’s icy moons that may potentially harbour life.

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  Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who walked on the Moon, dies at 85

  World | February 06, 2016 11:59 IST

  Washington: Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, a module pilot on Apollo 14 mission that touched down the lunar surface on February 5, 1971, died in Florida this week on the eve of the 45th anniversary of his

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  'Villages on the Moon' can be reality by 2030: Scientists

  World | January 11, 2016 11:37 IST

  New York: Villages on the Moon, constructed through cooperation between astronauts and robotic systems on the lunar surface, can become a reality as early as 2030, a group of scientists has predicted.Scientists are exploring the