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Musk, who also runs the electric car company Tesla, sent his Roadster into a long solar orbit stretching out to Mars.

Spacex 'Starman' at wheel of sports car flying on new rocket

Musk's Starman will cruise around the sun for a billion years.

7 Feb 2018 10:09 AM IST

A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched, puts sports car in space

With liftoff, the Heavy became the most powerful rocket in use today, doubling the liftoff punch of its closest...

7 Feb 2018 9:03 AM IST

The Falcon Heavy wont surpass NASAs Saturn V moon rocket, still all-time king of the launch circuit. (Photo: SpaceX)

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy ready for a midnight launch

SpaceX boasts a Falcon Heavy could lift a 737 into orbit, passengers, luggage and all.

6 Feb 2018 11:43 AM IST

Space Xs Falcon 9 rocket prepared for a launch to the International Space Station in February 2017 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX poised to launch 'world's most powerful rocket'

SpaceX is bucking decades of launch tradition for the first test flight of its new megarocket.

6 Feb 2018 8:22 AM IST

It likely belonged to a woman known as Hetpet, who archaeologists believe was close to ancient Egyptian royals of the 5th Dynasty.

Egypt says 4,400-year-old tomb discovered outside Cairo

The tomb was found in a wider area of Giza's western necropolis, which is known to be home to tombs from the Old...

4 Feb 2018 9:47 AM IST

Woodpeckers have several adaptations to mitigate the impact of pecking, involving their beak, skull, tongue and the space between their brain and skull.

A real head banger: woodpeckers show signs of potential brain damage

Scientists say study found build-ups of a protein called tau in woodpeckers' brains that in people is associated with...

3 Feb 2018 3:15 PM IST

When NASA was looking for a new class of astronauts, only 12 were selected from a whopping 18,300 applicants.

Astronauts will now eat their own excreta

Even though it may sound weird, it definitely will save a lot of space and effort to take edibles along on the journey.

3 Feb 2018 2:14 PM IST

NASA Mission Control said from Houston that the antenna wound up in a position 180 degrees farther than anticipated.

Recording-setting spacewalk ends with antenna in wrong spot

The trouble arose toward the end of the more than 8-hour spacewalk.

3 Feb 2018 2:11 PM IST

Scientists find massive Mayan society under Guatemala jungle

Scientists find massive Mayan society under Guatemala jungle

The study estimates that roughly 10 million people may have lived within the Maya Lowlands.

3 Feb 2018 1:48 PM IST

Following the first flight, the aircraft also did another test flight, although the figures for the second test flight havent been given out yet. (Photo: Vahana)

Airbus' flying taxi takes to the skies

The Airbus Alpha One prototype air taxi took off autonomously for 53 seconds.

2 Feb 2018 7:24 PM IST

This image provided by the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India in January 2018 shows a sample of artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic era found at the Attirampakkam archaeological site in southern India. The discovery of stone tools at the site shows a style that has been associated elsewhere with our species. They were fashioned from 385,000 years ago to 172,000 years ago, showing evidence of continuity and development over that time. (Photo: AP)

Stone tools in India suggest earlier human exit from Africa

Homo sapiens arose in Africa at least 3,00,000 years ago and left to colonise the globe.

1 Feb 2018 8:05 PM IST

The IMAGE spacecraft undergoing launch preparations in early 2000. Credits: NASA

An amateur astronomer finds 12-year old satellite

The identity of the satellite re-discovered on January 20, 2018, has been confirmed as NASA's IMAGE satellite.

1 Feb 2018 7:50 PM IST