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  SpaceX launches four astronauts to International Space Station

  Science | November 11, 2021 9:18 IST

  The 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 | November 10, 2021 6:44 IST

  Another 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 | November 06, 2021 8:42 IST

  These 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 | October 29, 2021 15:44 IST

  The 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 | October 26, 2021 23:11 IST

  The 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 | October 23, 2021 14:57 IST

  Confirmation 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 | October 19, 2021 12:28 IST

  NASA 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 | October 16, 2021 16:17 IST

  Astronomers 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 | October 15, 2021 22:37 IST

  The 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 | October 11, 2021 23:11 IST

  Based 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 | October 04, 2021 20:29 IST

  Punjab 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 | September 29, 2021 23:42 IST

  While 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 | September 29, 2021 7:46 IST

  Southwest 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 | September 28, 2021 14:28 IST

  Capturing 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 | September 27, 2021 16:00 IST

  The 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 | September 25, 2021 16:37 IST

  The image showcased a remote galaxy that is greatly magnified and distorted by the effects of gravitationally warped space.  

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  Astronomers find why galaxies become dormant

  Science | September 23, 2021 15:19 IST

  Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern Chile, the team from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst detected six such massive galaxies that were dead.

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  NASA's Artemis rover to land near Moon's south pole

  Science | September 21, 2021 17:15 IST

  The Artemis rover -- Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) -- during its 100-day journey will explore the region's surface and subsurface for water and other resources, the US space agency has confirmed.

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  NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter captures Mars rock feature in 3D

  Science | September 19, 2021 20:45 IST

  The mini-helicopter flew to the red planet on February 18 while being attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover.  

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  Thousands of massive, ancient volcanic eruptions on Mars: NASA

  Science | September 16, 2021 20:22 IST

  Spewing water vapour, carbon dioxide, and sulphur dioxide into the air, these explosions tore through the Martian surface about 4 billion years ago, according to scientists' estimates, reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.