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NASA to launch Artemis-I today, most powerful moon rocket ever built | When and where to watch
Science | Aug 29, 2022, 01:18 PM ISTNASA news: No one was inside the Orion capsule atop the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket at Kennedy Space Center. Instead, three test dummies were strapped in for the lunar-orbiting mission, expected to last six weeks.
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NASA's Webb telescope captures Jupiter's faint rings, Great Red Spot
Science | Aug 24, 2022, 11:29 AM ISTThe Great Red Spot, a famous storm so big it could swallow Earth, appears white in these views, as do other clouds, because they are reflecting a lot of sunlight.
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NASA aiming for late August test flight of giant moon rocket
Science | Jul 21, 2022, 08:02 AM ISTThe 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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World Asteroid Day 2022: A look back on how one space rock wiped out dinosaurs forever
Science | Jun 30, 2022, 12:47 PM ISTA devastating asteroid came racing through the upper atmosphere sixty-six million years ago, made its impact on land and ended species that coexisted in the world for 180 million years, in just a blink.
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NASA fuels moon rocket in countdown rehearsal despite fuel line leak
Science | Jun 21, 2022, 08:12 AM ISTThe previous attempts in April were thwarted by a fuel leak, as well as stuck valves and other technical issues.
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Rare 'planet parade' lights up skies as Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn form alignment after 1000 years
Science | Apr 27, 2022, 07:13 AM ISTThe last such parade of these planets occurred in 947 AD around 1,000 years ago.
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Sun emits massive solar flare with potential to impact satellite communications: CESSI
Science | Apr 20, 2022, 01:56 PM ISTAccording to NASA, the biggest flares are known as 'X-class flares' based on a classification system that divides solar flares according to their strength.
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Hubble finds new planet forming in intense, violent way
Science | Apr 06, 2022, 02:35 PM ISTThe new analysis, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, combines data from two Hubble instruments: the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrograph.
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Astronomers discover super bright, giant, farthest star that formed 13 billion years ago
Science | Mar 31, 2022, 07:07 AM ISTWhile 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.
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Astronomers detect new planet orbiting Proxima Centauri -- closest star to Sun
Science | Feb 14, 2022, 10:06 AM ISTProxima d orbits between the star and the habitable zone -- the area around a star where liquid water can exist at the surface of a planet -- and takes just five days to complete one orbit around Proxima Centauri.
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60 potentially habitable planets found using new AI-based algorithm devised in India
Science | Feb 10, 2022, 12:49 PM ISTIt is a tedious job to scan thousands of planets manually and to identify planets potentially similar to Earth. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be utilized effectively to find habitable planets.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reaches final destination -- a million miles away from Earth
Science | Jan 25, 2022, 07:20 AM ISTConsidered the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which orbits 330 miles (530 kilometers) up, Webb is too far away for emergency repairs. That makes the milestones over the past month — and the ones ahead — all the more critical.
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NASA studying Tonga eruption to understand landforms on Mars, Venus
Science | Jan 24, 2022, 07:45 AM ISTThe violent explosion, last week, was preceded by a series of small eruptions starting in December, which increased the size of the island.
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Debris chokes NASA's Perseverance while collecting rock sample from Mars
Science | Jan 12, 2022, 12:28 PM ISTThis is only the 6th time in human history a sample has been cored from a rock on a planet other than Earth, NASA said, adding they take it slow when they see something anomalous.
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NASA's Webb Telescope reaches major milestone as 'Mirror Unfolds'
Science | Jan 09, 2022, 07:31 AM ISTThe Webb mission will explore every phase of cosmic history - from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe.
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NASA nails trickiest job on newly launched space telescope
Science | Jan 05, 2022, 07:44 AM ISTThe $10 billion telescope is more than halfway toward its destination 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometres) away, following its Christmas Day send-off. It is the biggest and most powerful observatory ever launched — 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope — enabling it to peer back to almost the beginning of time.
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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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Barrier separating centre of Milky Way from cosmic ray sea discovered
Science | Nov 22, 2021, 08:09 AM ISTThe team investigated a map of radioactive gamma-rays -- the highest-energy form of light in the universe, which can arise when extremely high-speed particles called cosmic rays crash into ordinary matter -- blasting in and around the center of our galaxy.
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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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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.