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  NASA to launch Artemis-I today, most powerful moon rocket ever built | When and where to watch

  Science | August 29, 2022 13:18 IST

  NASA 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 | August 24, 2022 11:29 IST

  The 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 | 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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  World Asteroid Day 2022: A look back on how one space rock wiped out dinosaurs forever

  Science | June 30, 2022 12:47 IST

  A 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 | 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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  Rare 'planet parade' lights up skies as Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn form alignment after 1000 years

  Science | April 27, 2022 7:13 IST

  The 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 | April 20, 2022 13:56 IST

  According 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 | April 06, 2022 14:35 IST

  The 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 | 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.

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  Astronomers detect new planet orbiting Proxima Centauri -- closest star to Sun

  Science | February 14, 2022 10:06 IST

  Proxima 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 | February 10, 2022 12:49 IST

  It 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 | January 25, 2022 7:20 IST

  Considered 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 | January 24, 2022 7:45 IST

  The 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 | January 12, 2022 12:28 IST

  This 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 | January 09, 2022 7:31 IST

  The 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 | January 05, 2022 7:44 IST

  The $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 | November 24, 2021 14:28 IST

  The 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 | November 22, 2021 8:09 IST

  The 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 | November 20, 2021 6:30 IST

  NASA 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 | 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.