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  SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth, ending 200-day space station mission

  Science | November 09, 2021 9:25 IST

  NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and France's Thomas Pesquet should have been back Monday morning, but high wind in the recovery zone delayed their return.

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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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  Raja Chari to be the commander of SpaceX flight launching on October 31

  Science | October 28, 2021 16:46 IST

  This will be SpaceX’s fourth launch of NASA astronauts and its fifth passenger flight overall.

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  Can animal organs be life-saving for humans? Scientists experiment pig kidney transplant

  Science | October 20, 2021 12:38 IST

  This research is “a significant step,” said Dr. Andrew Adams of the University of Minnesota Medical School, who was not part of the work.

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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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  Blue Origin's second crewed flight to blast off on Oct 12

  Science | September 28, 2021 14:42 IST

  On July 20, Blue Origin successfully carried its first human flight which included Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Blue Origin's first customer, Oliver Daemen.

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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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  SpaceX tourists' 3-day trip to orbit ends with splashdown in Atlantic off Florida coast

  Science | September 19, 2021 7:05 IST

  SpaceX’s fully automated Dragon capsule reached an unusually high altitude of 363 miles (585 kilometers) after Wednesday night’s liftoff.

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  SpaceX launches 4 amateurs on private Earth-circling trip

  Science | September 16, 2021 16:26 IST

  It’s SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first entry in the competition for space tourism dollars. Isaacman is the third billionaire to launch this summer, following the brief space-skimming flights by Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson and Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos in July.

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  Scientists measure magnetic field of eruption from Sun's atmosphere

  Science | September 09, 2021 23:04 IST

  The study of the phenomenon happening in the Sun's atmosphere or the solar corona provides insights into its inner workings.  

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  What's driving Delta Covid variant to spread

  Science | September 07, 2021 15:26 IST

  Researchers from National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi, under the Ministry of Health; CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi, and University of Cambridge in the UK examined how the Delta variant was able to evade the immune response.

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  NASA's perseverance rover collects first Mars rock samples

  Science | September 07, 2021 13:14 IST

  "For all of NASA science, this is truly a historic moment," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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  Will it be safer for humans to fly to Mars? Here's what researchers suggest

  Science | August 30, 2021 14:49 IST

  Sending human travellers to Mars would require scientists and engineers to overcome a range of technological and safety obstacles.

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  Planetary scientists find evidence of solar-driven change on Moon

  Science | August 21, 2021 11:42 IST

  As NASA prepares to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024 as part of the Artemis mission, understanding the solar radiation environment and possible resources on the Moon are critical.

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  Earth, Saturn to come closest today. Here's when it will be visible in India

  Science | August 02, 2021 8:25 IST

  "As per Indian Standard Time (IST) at 11.30 am, Saturn and Earth will be closest to each other," an official has informed.

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  ISRO to take cooperation with European, Israeli space agencies to higher orbit

  Science | August 01, 2021 11:35 IST

  ISRO is in discussions with European and Israeli space agencies to enhance cooperation.

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  Russian module briefly throws International Space Station out of control

  Science | July 30, 2021 8:31 IST

  Flight controllers regained control using thrusters on other Russian components at the station to right the ship, and it is now stable and safe, NASA said.

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  Massive, stadium-sized asteroid to fly past Earth soon. Details

  Science | July 21, 2021 12:12 IST

  In March this year, the largest asteroid passed through Earth at a speed 124,000 kph. 

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  Astronomers identify curious occurrence of star-like objects on old photographic plate

  Science | July 17, 2021 8:32 IST

  Nine star-like objects that appeared and vanished in a small region within half an hour on an old photographic plate, were discovered by astronomers.

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  UAE's Hope spacecraft snaps Mars' glowing auroras

  Science | July 05, 2021 12:22 IST

  The auroras was spotted by the Emirates Mars Ultraviolet Spectrometer, or EMUS, which is designed to study the thin, vast halo of hydrogen and oxygen surrounding Mars, not on its magnetism, so the aurora images came as a bonus.