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Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. (Photo: NASA)

NASA probe nearing interstellar space

NASA's Voyager 2 has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency...

7 Oct 2018 5:21 PM IST

Audi dealers, particularly those from California where Tesla has made significant inroads, cheered the e-tron at Monday nights crowded event.

Tesla's autopilot is better than you, statistically

Tesla says it's now going to start publicly releasing accident data every quarter.

6 Oct 2018 10:13 AM IST

SpaceX is working on a version of its Dragon capsule that will carry crew to the space station, perhaps as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

Debut of SpaceX, Boeing crew capsules off until next year

NASA stresses these latest launch dates are subject to still more change.

6 Oct 2018 10:04 AM IST

$University Geology Professor Mona Sirbescu first identified the piece as more than just a rock. She then sent two small slices of the rock to the Smithsonian for confirmation. \I could tell right away that this was something special,\ she said. \Its the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically.\$ Science

Holy Cow! A $100K meteorite was being used as a doorstop rock

The 23-pound rock was used for decades by Michigan man.

6 Oct 2018 9:57 AM IST

This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, lander on the asteroid Ryugu. The Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped the German-French observation device, MASCOT, on October 3, 2018, to land on the asteroid as part of a research effort intended to find clues to the origin of the solar system. (JAXA via AP)

Japanese spacecraft drops observation device onto asteroid

The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the MASCOT was released from an unmanned spacecraft and successfully landed on...

5 Oct 2018 7:37 AM IST

This illustration provided by Dan Durda shows the exoplanet Kepler-1625b with a hypothesized moon. On October 4, 2018, two Columbia University researchers reported their results that the potential exomoon would be the size of Neptune or Uranus. The exoplanet, about 8,000 light-years away, is as big as Jupiter. (Dan Durda via AP)

Have astronomers found 1st moon outside our solar system?

Two Columbia University researchers presented their tantalising evidence for a moon.

4 Oct 2018 9:38 AM IST

In this 1988 image provided by Nokia Bell Labs shows Arthur Ashkin at the lab in Holmdel, NJ American Arthur Ashkin, Canadian Donna Strickland, and French scientist Gerard Mourou won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics announced on October 2, 2018, for work in laser physics. (Nokia Bell Labs via AP)

Science fiction into reality: Nobel Prize honors laser work

Ashkin, entered the record books of the Nobel Prizes by becoming the oldest laureate at age 96.

3 Oct 2018 10:29 AM IST

This illustration from NASA shows the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in August 2018, the spacecraft will get a gravity assist on October 3, 2018, as it passes within 1,500 miles of Venus. (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swinging by Venus on way to sun

The flyby is the first of seven that will draw Parker ever closer to the sun.

3 Oct 2018 9:28 AM IST

A round frozen world just 186 miles (300 kilometres) across, the Goblin was spotted by astronomers in 2015 around Halloween, thus its spooky name. (Photo: AP)

Scrawny dwarf planet, named Goblin, found well beyond Pluto

A scrawny dwarf planet nicknamed the Goblin has been discovered well beyond Pluto.

3 Oct 2018 9:22 AM IST

In 2019, this capsule will be fully optimised and ready for passengers.

World's first Hyperloop passenger capsule unveiled

The world's first full-scale passenger Hyperloop capsule gets ready to head to Toulouse R&D facility for optimisation.

2 Oct 2018 8:55 PM IST

Japan space agency scientists and engineers are thrilled by the images being sent to Earth by two jumping robotic rovers that they dropped onto an asteroid about 280 million kilometers (170 million miles) away. (Photo: AP)

The asteriod is rocky: Japanese space rovers

Photos from Japanese space rovers show asteroid is rocky.

29 Sept 2018 10:04 AM IST

Spacewalking astronauts will help install the batteries in October. (Photo: AP)

Space station receives special delivery from Japan's White Stork

The cargo ship known as Kounotori in Japanese arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday.

28 Sept 2018 10:31 AM IST