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  NASA New Horizons spacecraft set to visit most distant object ever

  Science | October 08, 2018 12:37 IST

  New Horizons itself was about 6.35 billion kilometres from home when it carried out on Wednesday's trajectory correction maneuver (TCM), the farthest course-correction ever performed.

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  NASA planet hunting probe 'TESS' shares first image

  Science | September 18, 2018 13:19 IST

  The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sent the images that were captured from its initial science orbit. It will spend 2 years monitoring 26 such sectors for 27 days each.

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  NASA Probe To Hit Moon's South Pole On Oct 9

  World | October 05, 2009 3:35 IST

  The US space agency NASA has shifted the planned impact point of its Lunar Ceater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Moon-attack probe, based on new data which indicate its first choice might not contain as