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NASA releases breathtaking ultra-high resolution panorama of Martian surfa
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 6 (ANI): NASA has unveiled a breathtaking panorama shot of Mars, by stitching together thousands of individual images, captured by its Curiosity rover.
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Seventh-grader from Virginia names NASA's next Mars rover 'Perseverance'
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 6 (ANI): Thomas Zurbuchen, the Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has announced the official name of its Mars 2020 rover-- 'Perseverance.'
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NASA opens doors for future astronauts for next Moon, Mars missions
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 2 (ANI): Aspiring space explorers can now apply to NASA as the space agency has started accepting applications for the first time in more than four years.
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University student discovers 17 new planets, including potentially habitab
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 29 (ANI): University of British Columbia (UBC) astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.
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Record- breaking explosion by black hole spotted
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 27 (ANI): The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light-years away.
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Modi, Trump hail talks on Mars exploration, commercial space cooperation
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United States President Donald Trump have welcomed an endeavour between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for development and launch in 2022 of a
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Mathematician Katherine Johnson portrayed in 'Hidden Figures' dies at 101
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 24 (ANI): Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA mathematicians portrayed in the Oscar-nominated 2016 film 'Hidden Figures', died at the age of 101.
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NASA scientists spot water in Jupiter's atmosphere
Updated : 6 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 22 (ANI): NASA astronomers have recently revealed that our neighbourhood gas-giant, Jupiter, contains water in its atmosphere, albeit in a fractional amount.
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Japan to launch sample return mission to Martian moon Phobos
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], Feb 21 (ANI): Japanese space agency JAXA is gearing up for an ambitious unmanned space expedition to explore Phobos, one of the two moons that orbit Mars.
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Double star system flipping between two alter egos
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 21 (ANI): Researchers noticed that a stellar duo behaved like one type of object before switching its identity, and then returning to its original state after a few years.This is a rare example of a star system changing its behavior in this way.
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Findings from NASA's Juno update Jupiter water mystery
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 19 (ANI): NASA's Juno mission has provided its first science results on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. Published recently in the journal Nature Astronomy, the Juno results estimate that at the equator, water makes up about 0.25 per cent of the molecul
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New Horizons space probe provides insights about planet formation
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 15 (ANI): NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons provided the science community with fresh new insights about the process of planet formation after it flew past a celestial body named Arrokoth, which is situated at the fringes of our solar system in the Kui
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