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NASA's Hubble telescope captures stunning image of star-forming Prawn Nebula
Science | Nov 28, 2021, 01:22 PM ISTThe Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light-years from Earth.
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NASA launches DART spacecraft that will deliberately crash into asteroid. Here's why
Science | Nov 24, 2021, 02:28 PM ISTThe mission aims to see if intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid is an effective way to change its course, if an Earth-threatening asteroid is discovered in the future.
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NASA seeks ideas for a nuclear reactor on moon
Science | Nov 20, 2021, 06:30 AM ISTNASA is collaborating with the US Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source for missions to the moon by the end of the decade.
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India's Chandrayaan-2 avoids collision with NASA's moon orbiter
India | Nov 17, 2021, 08:10 AM ISTIt is common for satellites in earth orbit to undergo collision avoidance manoeuvres to mitigate collision risk due to space objects including space debris and operational spacecraft.
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SpaceX launches four astronauts to International Space Station
Science | Nov 11, 2021, 09:18 AM ISTThe crew launch marked SpaceX's fourth for NASA in 1-1/2 years and the company's fifth passenger flight overall.
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NASA delays human moon landing until 2025, blames seven months lost in Litigation
Science | Nov 10, 2021, 06:44 AM ISTAnother reason for the delay is that the original 2024 deadline set by the Trump administration "was not grounded in technical feasibility," Nelson said.
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NASA, USGS release first Landsat 9 light images of Earth
Science | Nov 06, 2021, 08:42 AM ISTThese first light images show Detroit, Michigan, with neighbouring Lake St. Clair, the intersection of cities and beaches along a changing Florida coastline and images from Navajo Country in Arizona.
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Sun fires significant solar flare, can disrupt Earth's GPS signals: NASA
Science | Oct 29, 2021, 03:44 PM ISTThe flare originated from a sunspot called AR2887 currently positioned in the center of the sun and facing the Earth, based on its location, Spaceweather.com reported.
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NASA finds first signs of planet outside Milky Way galaxy
Science | Oct 26, 2021, 11:11 PM ISTThe possible exoplanet -- or planets outside of our Solar System -- candidate is located in the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), also called the Whirlpool Galaxy because of its distinctive profile, NASA said in a statement.
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NASA aims to launch next-generation rocket on debut flight in early 2022
World | Oct 23, 2021, 02:57 PM ISTConfirmation of the new target date, which was rumoured in Aug, comes a day after engineers fully stacked the SLS inside NASA's massive hangar at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Lucy spacecraft - NASA's mission to explore distant asteroids, suffers glitch with solar panel
Science | Oct 19, 2021, 12:28 PM ISTNASA said the mission team is working on analysing the problem and will come up with the next steps in the days ahead.
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Hubble finds persistent water vapour in Jupiter's moon
Science | Oct 16, 2021, 04:17 PM ISTAstronomers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Space and Plasma Physics, Sweden found that Europa harbours a vast ocean underneath its icy surface, but, mysteriously, only in one hemisphere.
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NASA's 1st mission to distant asteroids prepares for launch on Oct 16
Science | Oct 15, 2021, 10:37 PM ISTThe Lucy mission will complete a 12-year journey to eight different asteroids: exploring one asteroid in the solar system's Main Belt asteroid and seven Trojans, the remnants of our early solar system trapped in stable orbits, and following Jupiter in its path around the Sun.
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NASA's Perseverance rover reveals history of water on Mars
Science | Oct 11, 2021, 11:11 PM ISTBased on the detailed images sent by the six-wheeler rover on Mars, the team has now published first scientific results about the Jezero Crater delta in the journal Science.
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NASA images show polluted skies set to engulf north India soon
India | Oct 04, 2021, 08:29 PM ISTPunjab annually generates 20 million tonnes of paddy straw, which is normally set on fire to quickly clear the fields for the next crop, resulting in choking of the National Capital Region (NCR) in October and November and causing major health effects.
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Sun block: NASA's Mars missions will halt communication
Science | Sep 29, 2021, 11:42 PM ISTWhile the missions on the Red Planet will continue collecting data, engineers back on Earth will stop sending commands to them until October 16, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
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NASA's Lucy Mission prepares for launch to Trojan asteroids
Science | Sep 29, 2021, 07:46 AM ISTSouthwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, is the home institution of the principal investigator for the Lucy mission.
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Earth-monitoring Landsat 9 satellite launches in California
Science | Sep 28, 2021, 02:28 PM ISTCapturing changes in the planet’s landscape ranging from the growth of cities to the movements of glaciers, the Landsat program is the longest continuous record of Earth observation from space, according to NASA.
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NASA to launch 1 Earth-observing satellite, 4 CubeSats on Monday
Science | Sep 27, 2021, 04:00 PM ISTThe Landsat 9 satellite is a joint NASA and US Geological Survey (USGS) mission that will continue the legacy of monitoring Earth's land and coastal regions that began with the first Landsat satellite in 1972.
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Hubble's new 'molten Einstein ring' image prompts new research
Science | Sep 25, 2021, 04:37 PM ISTThe image showcased a remote galaxy that is greatly magnified and distorted by the effects of gravitationally warped space.