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The international Space Station

Russia open to extending international space station partnership:...

The US space agency, NASA, spends about $3 billion a year on the space station program

5 April 2017 11:07 AM IST

Anti-narcotics and Military Police officers prepare for the incineration of more than 200 kilos of cocaine seized in El Salvador. (Photo: AFP)

How Iceland's teens cleaned up their act

It is a stunning turnaround for a country that discovered rising worrying trends among its youth in the early 1990s,...

4 April 2017 2:03 AM IST

Joyce Endresen wears an Optune therapy device for brain cancer. She was diagnosed in December 2014 with glioblastoma. She had two surgeries to remove the tumor as well as radiation and chemotherapy, but is now trying the new therapy that requires her to wear the electrodes on her head as much as possible. (Photo: AP)

Sci-fi' cancer therapy fights brain tumours

Many doctors are sceptical of the therapy, called tumour treating fields, and it's not a cure.

4 April 2017 2:01 AM IST

NASAs Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiters south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on February 2, 2017 at 6:06 a.m. PT (9:06 a.m. ET), from an altitude of about 62,800 miles (101,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. (Image: Nasa)

NASA releases breathtaking close-up images of Jupiter

Juno's next flyby will be on May 19, 2017.

3 April 2017 11:23 AM IST

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Fungus that devours plastic may help clean environment

Humans are producing ever greater amounts of plastic much of which ends up as garbage.

2 April 2017 12:49 PM IST

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

Extra portion of SpaceX rocket recovered from launch, Musk says

Measuring 43 feet (13 meters) long and 17 feet (5 meters) in diameter, the nosecone is big enough to hold a school bus.

1 April 2017 10:18 AM IST

Xiao Nan, the robot reporter, took only a second to finish writing the piece. (representational image)

British robot helping autistic children with their social skills

Kaspar also sings song, imitates eating, plays the tambourine and combs his hair during their sessions

1 April 2017 9:52 AM IST

Nasas EM drive propulsion tech will propel us to the Moon in four hours. And to Mars in 70 days.

Solar wind turned Mars into dry, cold planet: study

The measurements show that Mars has lost 66 percent of its argon since the planet formed some 4.6 billion years ago.

1 April 2017 9:27 AM IST

In this July 24, 2009, file photo, the Gran Telescopio Canarias, one of the the worlds largest telescopes, is viewed at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on the Canary Island of La Palma, Spain. An agreement has been reached for a giant telescope to be built in Spains Canary Islands if it cannot be put atop a Hawaii mountain. Telescope builder TMT International Observatory says Hawaiis Mauna Kea remains the preferred location for the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope. (AP Photo/Carlos Moreno, File)

Giant telescope to show up in Spain if Hawaii isn't possible

TMT International Observatory says Hawaii's Mauna Kea remains the preferred location for the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter...

31 March 2017 10:38 AM IST

In this image made from video provided by NASA, US astronauts Peggy Whitson, above, and Shane Kimbrough work on the outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, March 30, 2017. An important piece of micrometeorite shielding was lost during the spacewalk. (Photo: NASA via AP)

Spacewalkers use patch after losing lose piece of shielding

The astronauts filled the gap using the cover that they had just removed from the relocated docking port.

31 March 2017 10:30 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 launches its first recycled rocket in historic leap

If SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system proves reusable, it could slash space launch costs by 30 per cent

31 March 2017 8:09 AM IST

The CAS has set up permanent observation stations in lake Namtso, the Nyingchi area and Mount Everest known locally as Qomolangma.

China to build new scientific observation station in Tibet

The station, which will cover 2,600 square meters, is expected to be constructed in October in Deshing village of Metok...

30 March 2017 5:34 PM IST