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SpaceX Dragon Capsule successfully reaches low Earth orbit, astronauts saf
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Florida [USA], May 31 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) said that the SpaceX Dragon Capsule has successfully reached low Earth orbit and the two NASA astronauts are safe and sound.
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SpaceX, NASA launch first astronauts into orbit from US soil in nearly a d
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Florida [USA], May 31 (ANI): SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday successfully took off from Kennedy Space Center for the International Space Station (ISS), with two NASA astronauts -- Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley.
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Astronomers observe pair of jets blasting away from black hole at light sp
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): Astronomers have caught a black hole hurling hot material into space at close to the speed of light. This flare-up was captured in a new movie from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
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Astrologer Bejan Daruwala passes away in Ahmedabad
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Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], May 29 (ANI): Famed astrologer Bejan Daruwala passed away here on Friday at the age of 88.
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Fresh antimatter study will help search for dark matter
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 29 (ANI): The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far at the Large Hadron Collider.
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ESPRESSO confirms presence of an Earth around the nearest star
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 28 (ANI): The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE).
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NASA postpones launch of American astronauts to ISS due to bad weather
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Florida [USA], May 28 (ANI): Minutes before launch, NASA on Wednesday (local time) called off the most awaited mission that was to be the first to take American astronauts to orbit from American soil in nearly a decade.
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NASA, SpaceX to launch American astronauts to Space Station from US soil t
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 28 (ANI): NASA and SpaceX are scheduled to launch astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken on a mission to the International Space Station at 4:33 pm Eastern Time (2 am IST) on Wednesday.
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MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospher
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
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The detective aboard the Perseverance Mars Rover
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Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an instrument on the end of the rover's robotic arm, will h
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Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanets
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars -- so-called hot Jupiters -- boast the most extreme.
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Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objects
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Washington D.C. [USA], May 27 (ANI): Move aside, AT2018COW. There is a new astronomical transient in the universe, and it is faster, heavier and brighter at radio wavelengths than its mysterious predecessors.
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