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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from newly refurbished Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Cape Canaveral, Fla, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017. The rocket is carrying supplies to the International Space Station. (Craig Bailey/Florida Today via AP)

SpaceX recycled rocket soars with recycled capsule

It was NASA's first use of a reused Falcon rocket and only the second of a previously flown Dragon.

16 Dec 2017 9:40 AM IST

Google is stepping up efforts to filter out annoying online ads as part of an effort to improve the browsing experience. (photo: AFP)

Google crunches data to help NASA find two new planets

The data came from the Kepler telescope which NASA launched into space in 2009 as part of a planet-finding mission.

16 Dec 2017 8:45 AM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket attached to the cargo-only capsule called Dragon lays on its side in 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX says it will fly 2 people to moon next year

Two people who know one another approached the company about sending them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon.

28 Feb 2017 8:03 AM IST

India is breathing toxic air. But heres a clear look at the hard numbers and the real reasons.

Dying planet

Moreover, air pollution varies not only with population density, but also with regional differences, says a Nasa study.

28 Feb 2017 7:36 AM IST

Nasa plans to launch the Solar Probe Plus mission to the Sun which is about 149 million km from the Earth.

Nasa may send robotic spacecraft to Sun in 2018

The scientists also want to know how solar wind gets its speed, Live Science' reported.

28 Feb 2017 1:11 AM IST

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India's rocket women

The overwhelming success of India's space missions has highlighted the role of the country's women scientists.

26 Feb 2017 12:37 AM IST

The challenge now is to untangle how many of the observed changes are specific to the physical demands of spaceflight - and how many might be simply due to natural variations. (Representational image)

NASA weighing risk of adding crew to megarocket's 1st flight

The objective is to speed up a manned mission; under the current plan, astronauts wouldn't climb aboard until 2021.

25 Feb 2017 8:00 AM IST

The eclipse -- during which the Sun will all but disappear as the Moon crosses its path -- will be most visible in a 100-kilometre (62-mile) band cutting through Chile, Argentina, Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

'Ring of fire' eclipse treat for southern skygazers

To look at the Sun directly, one would need special glasses.

24 Feb 2017 10:41 AM IST

Astronomers have found other seven-planet systems before, but this is the first time to have so many Earth-sized worlds.

7 new Earth-sized exoplanets found, could hold life

All of them orbit at the right distance to possibly have liquid water somewhere on their surfaces.

23 Feb 2017 8:24 AM IST

He travelled more than 300 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger during the spacewalk.

NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80

He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in the cosmic blackness above a...

23 Dec 2017 12:15 PM IST

A high-flying science experiment may colour the skies above the US mid-Atlantic coast with bluish green and red clouds. (Photo: NASA)

NASA experiment to colour the skies over the US East Coast

Scientists want to learn more about how the ionosphere interacts with other layers of the atmosphere.

12 Jun 2017 3:22 PM IST

NASAs Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called Pahrump Hills on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014 and 2015. This view shows locations of some targets the rover studied there. The blue dots indicate where drilled samples of powdered rock were collected for analysis. (NASA Image)

Evidence of wide diversity of minerals discovered on Mars

NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity...

12 Jun 2017 1:23 PM IST