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Three Astronauts Return From ISS As Three More Prepare To Go
Three astronauts are departing the International Space Station after a 168-day mission to make the descent back to Earth. Soyuz MS-07/53S commander Anton Shkaplerov, NASA flight engineer Scott Tingle and Japanese physician-astronaut... More of this article »
NASA Sending Helicopter To Mars
NASA has announced that a small, autonomous helicopter will be launched with the agency’s upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission. The craft is meant to demonstrate the viability of travel with a heavier-than-air craft above the Martian... More of this article »
Breakthrough Listen Expands Search For Alien Life
The Breakthrough Listen project has announced the launch of an expanded survey of stars in the Milky Way. The initiative was launched to collect massive amounts of deep space data and make it public in an open effort to identify signals... More of this article »
NASA Ends Lunar Rover Project
NASA has canceled its only lunar rover currently in development. According to reports, members of the Resource Prospector mission were to close out the project by the end of May. NASA released a statement saying that some of the instruments... More of this article »
University Facing Boycott Over Killer Robots
A boycott of a major South Korean research university has been called for by many of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence and robotics. The university has reportedly been working with an arms company on integrating... More of this article »
Chinese Satellite Burns Up In Descent To Earth
Chinese satellite Tiangong 1 re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere Sunday night. The spacecraft made its descent at around 8:16PM ET on April 1st. Most of the material comprising the 8.5-ton satellite burned up over the central South... More of this article »
Help NASA By Taking Cloud Photos
NASA has a great opportunity for you if you like to look at clouds and take photos. Citizen scientists on the ground are needed to take photos of the sky help them corroborate satellite information. NASA’s Marilé Colón Robles,... More of this article »
SpaceX Gets Nod For Satellite Broadband Network
SpaceX has won an endorsement to build a broadband network using satellites from the top U.S. communications regulator. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai proposed the approval of the application. According to Pai,... More of this article »
Nazca Lines Damaged By Rogue Truck Driver
A trucker intentionally drove his tractor-trailer off a roadway and through the 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines in Peru, causing considerable damage to the protected historic area. Truck driver Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo was arrested and... More of this article »
Spacewalk To Repair International Space Station Successful
Two NASA astronauts have completed a scheduled spacewalk to make necessary repairs to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was the 206th spacewalk supporting the station’s assembly and maintenance. It was the first... More of this article »
Total solar eclipse all set to woo sky gazers on August 21 – All you need to know!
New Delhi: Sometime in the year 2014, American space agency NASA had confirmed the occurrence of a total solar eclipse in 2017. On Monday, August 21, many Americans will be able to witness the phenomenon right from their porches. Here... More of this article »
Two new earthworm species found in Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram: Scientists have discovered two new primitive species of earthworm in the Western Ghats mountain ranges in Kerala. Researchers at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala and Shoolini University in Himachal Pradesh named... More of this article »
Aimed to improve GPS accuracy, Japan launches third satellite ‘Michibiki’
New Delhi: In an effort to build a homegrown geolocation system and help improve the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres, Japan launched its third satellite – the “Michibiki”. Launched... More of this article »
ISS spacewalk comes to an end after seven hours, 34 minutes
The seventh spacewalk of 2017 outside the International Space Station (ISS) successfully ended after seven hour and 34 minute spacewalk on August 17. Led by Expedition 52 cosmonauts Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey... More of this article »