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The signing of the Outer Space Treaty. (Photo: UN)

There's space for all of us: Celebrating the Outer Space Treaty's...

We also work to ensure that all humankind benefits from space activities, particularly developing countries and...

10 Oct 2017 2:10 AM IST

Researchers combined visible-wavelength and infrared data to produce an image color-coded for surface temperatures of this moon, which has been considered for a potential future human-mission outpost.

NASA's Mars Odyssey probe captures first image of moon Phobos

The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter observed Phobos on September 29.

8 Oct 2017 6:15 PM IST

Richard Henderson, one of the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, holds a bacterio rhodopsin model prior to a press conference at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. Three researchers based in the U.S., U.K. and Switzerland won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for developments in electron microscopy. The 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize is shared by Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne, Joachim Frank at New Yorks Columbia University and Richard Henderson of MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, Britain. (Frank Augstein/Associated Press)

Nobel-winning technique like Google earth for molecules'

Molecules can be captured down to the level of their atoms, and snapshots can catch them in mid-movement.

7 Oct 2017 9:41 AM IST

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, right, trudges across the surface of the moon leaving behind footprints. Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million. Theyre just some of the items linked to space travel that Sothebys is auctioning off to mark the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20. (AP Photo, File)

Pence pledges that US will go to the Moon, Mars and beyond

Space industry leaders say they and NASA are building the spaceships to get there.

7 Oct 2017 9:37 AM IST

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, right, trudges across the surface of the moon leaving behind footprints. Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million. Theyre just some of the items linked to space travel that Sothebys is auctioning off to mark the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20. (AP Photo, File)

Pence pledges that US will go to the Moon, Mars and beyond

Space industry leaders say they and NASA are building the spaceships to get there.

7 Oct 2017 9:37 AM IST

Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)

Moon once had an atmosphere: NASA study

A NASA study has found that the Moon had an atmosphere about three to four billion years ago.

6 Oct 2017 12:51 PM IST

Mers could infect humans wherever there are one-humped dromedary camels.

Health experts zero in on camels to fight Mers virus

Saudi Arabia has been heavily criticised for not being transparent about MERS, but Van Kerkhove said that had totally...

3 Oct 2017 1:11 AM IST

Internet entrepreneur Elon Musks SpaceX has for years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings on solid ground and in the water

SpaceX's Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022

Plans include cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under...

30 Sept 2017 9:19 AM IST

The successor to the famed Hubble Space Telescope, Webb will now launch between March and June 2019 from French Guiana

NASA delays launch of James Webb Space Telescope to 2019

The 6.5-metre diameter infrared-optimised telescope is designed to study an extremely wide range of astrophysical...

30 Sept 2017 9:14 AM IST

Tesla founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk (Photo: AP)

SpaceX: Rocket for moon, Mars and NY-to-Shanghai in 39 mins

A seat should cost about the same as a full-fare economy plane ticket, he noted later via Instagram.

30 Sept 2017 9:02 AM IST

Chris Cassidy is biking 600 miles across the Amazon to raise awareness about climate change and record its effects.

NASA astronaut to bike across Amazon in climate change film

Chris Cassidy is keeping his exploration impulses down-to-earth.

30 Sept 2017 8:59 AM IST

Lockheed Martin is among several companies working on deep space habitats with NASA, which hopes to send the first astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.

This Mars lander will allow humans to explore the Red Planet

NASA is planning missions into the space between Earth and the Moon for the next decade to prepare for trips to Mars.

29 Sept 2017 11:38 AM IST