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  NASA to launch 2 more choppers to Mars to help return rocks

  World | July 28, 2022 7:29 IST

  The chopper weighs just 1.8 kilograms. The new versions would have wheels and grappling arms.

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  NASA's new secret about asteroids is shocking! Know more

  Science | July 25, 2022 3:00 IST

  The team analysed rock fractures on asteroid Bennu from high-resolution images taken by the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer).

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  NASA aiming for late August test flight of giant moon rocket

  Science | July 21, 2022 8:02 IST

  The 30-story Space Launch System rocket and attached Orion capsule are currently in the hangar at Kennedy Space Center, following repairs stemming from last month's countdown test.

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  NASA shares spectacular rainbow-coloured picture of Pluto, confused netizens ask 'Is this real?'

  Trending | July 20, 2022 23:21 IST

  NASA shared a colourful image of Pluto highlighting its various regions. However, netizens wondered if the image was real or photoshopped?

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  NASA releases next wave of images from James Webb Space Telescope; scientists react

  Science | July 12, 2022 23:08 IST

  James Webb Space Telescope new images: The first batch of images from NASA’s new space telescope was unveiled on Monday. Those images showed the Cosmas brimming with galaxies.

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  James Webb Space Telescope’s first cosmic view goes deep; Biden calls it 'historic moment'

  Science | July 12, 2022 10:56 IST

  President Joe Biden marveled at the image that he said showed “the oldest documented light in the history of the universe from over 13 billion -- let me say that again -- 13 billion years ago. It’s hard to fathom.”

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  Contact lost with $32.7 million spacecraft on way to test moon orbit, says NASA

  Science | July 06, 2022 12:22 IST

  After one successful communication and a second partial one on Monday, the space agency said it could no longer communicate with the spacecraft called Capstone.

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  'She was rare!': NASA shares photo of breathtaking celestial event involving Sun, Venus

  Science | June 28, 2022 14:54 IST

  Solar transits are a planet's passage across the Sun's face, as seen from Earth's perspective, where the only observable transits are that of Mercury and Venus, NASA informed.

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  Give us our 'moon dust' and 'cockroaches' back: NASA

  Science | June 25, 2022 14:32 IST

  “All Apollo samples, as stipulated in this collection of items, belong to NASA and no person, university, or other entity has ever been given permission to keep them after analysis, destruction, or other use for any purpose, especially for sale or individual display,” said NASA's letter dated June 15.

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  NASA fuels moon rocket in countdown rehearsal despite fuel line leak

  Science | June 21, 2022 8:12 IST

  The previous attempts in April were thwarted by a fuel leak, as well as stuck valves and other technical issues.

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  NASA on alien hunt! Space agency dedicates team to find about UFOs & mysterious sightings in the sky

  Trending | June 10, 2022 17:08 IST

  NASA considers this a first step in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky known as UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena. The study will begin this fall and last nine months, costing no more than USD 100,000. 

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  NASA launches study of UFOs despite ‘reputational risk’

  Science | June 10, 2022 13:30 IST

  NASA considers this a first step in trying to explain mysterious sightings in the sky known as UAPs, or unidentified aerial phenomena.

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  NASA suspends routine spacewalks due to leaky spacesuit helmet

  Science | May 22, 2022 20:04 IST

  Water was found in the helmet worn by European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer following a March 23 spacewalk.

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  First image of supermassive black hole at centre of Milky Way galaxy revealed

  Science | May 12, 2022 20:37 IST

  Scientists had previously seen stars orbiting around something invisible, compact, and very massive at the centre of the Milky Way.

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  NASA records biggest ever 'Monster quake' on Mars, estimated to be magnitude 5

  Science | May 10, 2022 18:06 IST

  The quake was recorded when InSight was sent to Mars with a highly sensitive seismometer, provided by France’s Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES), to study the deep interior of the planet.

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  NASA releases new images comparing sharper view of Universe using MIRI vs Spitzer telescopes

  Science | May 10, 2022 16:28 IST

  The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built. Webb’s image, taken by its MIRI instrument, features light from “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons."

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  WHAT! NASA plans to send naked pictures of humans to space in hope of 'attracting aliens'

  offbeat | May 04, 2022 19:13 IST

  Scientists think the pixelated illustration of a naked man and woman waving hello could help us make contact with aliens. Along with DNA depiction, scientists have also tried to depict gravity.

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  NASA scientists crack 60-yr-old mystery of explosions on Sun

  Science | May 02, 2022 4:00 IST

  An explosive process called magnetic reconnection triggers solar flares, which can, in just minutes, release enough energy to power the whole world for 20,000 years. Scientists have spent the last half-century trying to understand how this process happens.

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  India has 217 space objects orbiting earth; working towards reducing space debris: Report

  Science | April 10, 2022 20:56 IST

  According to Orbital Debris Quarterly News issued in March by NASA, India had 103 spacecraft, including active and defunct satellites, and 114 space debris objects, including spent rocket bodies orbiting the earth. So, the country has a total of 217 space objects orbiting the earth.

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  Astronomers discover super bright, giant, farthest star that formed 13 billion years ago

  Science | March 31, 2022 7:07 IST

  While Hubble has spied galaxies as far away as 300 million to 400 million years of the universe-forming Big Bang, their individual stars are impossible to pick out.