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Study reveals nasal vaccine against COVID-19 prevents infection in mice
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): Scientists have developed a vaccine that targets the SARS-CoV-2 virus, can be given in one dose via the nose and is effective in preventing infection in mice susceptible to the novel coronavirus. The investigators next plan to test the vaccine in nonhuman pr
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Follow the Perseverance Rover in real-time on its way to Mars
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): The last time we saw NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real-time as humanity's most sophistic
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Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth - the closest flyby on record
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Washington D.C. [USA], August 19 (ANI): Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known NEA: It passed 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometres) above the southern Indian Ocean
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Arecibo Observatory data help lead to discovery of cosmic 'Heartbeat'
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Florida [USA], August 17 (ANI): An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a "gamma-ray heartbeat" coming from a cosmic gas cloud.
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter recharges its batteries in flight
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California [US], Aug 14 (ANI): Headed to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover, the pioneering helicopter is powered up for the first time in interplanetary space as part of a systems check.
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Hubble helps uncover mystery of Betelgeuse's dimming
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Garching [Germany], August 14 (ANI): New observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star Betelgeuse was most likely caused by an immense amount of hot material ejected into space, forming a dust cloud that blocked starlight comin
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NASA's planet hunter TESS completes primary mission
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Maryland [US], August 12 (ANI): NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), on July 4, finished its primary mission imaging about 75 per cent of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our s
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Laser beams reflected between earth and moon boost science
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Maryland [US], Aug 11 (ANI): NASA scientists, many times over the last decade, have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth.
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NASA sounding rocket finds helium structures in Sun's atmosphere
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Washington [US], Aug 8 (ANI): Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists are not sure just how much there actually is in the Sun's atmosphere, where it is hard to measure.
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NASA's InSight lander used for deep Mars measurements
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Texas [USA], August 6 (ANI): Using data from NASA's InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the crust to the core of the red planet.
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Stellar pulsations distribute key ingredient for life
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Maryland [USA], August 5 (ANI): As Carl Sagan famously said, "We're made of star stuff" -- but how do stars distribute their essential "stuff" for life into space? NASA's telescope on an airplane, SOFIA, is finding some answers by watching pulsating stars as they expand and contract, almost
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SpaceX capsule opens, NASA astronauts brought out of spacecraft
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Washington D.C. [US], Aug 3 (ANI): SpaceX capsule Crew Dragon, the first commercial mission to the International Space Station returned safely to Earth on Sunday splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico on Florida's Gulf coast.
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