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The world was a different place when Thomas Pesquet arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) on November 20 for a six-month mission. (Photo: AFP)

Astronauts return after marathon ISS mission

Pesquet and Novitskiy arrived at the station on November 20 for a six-month mission with American Peggy Whitson.

03 Jun 2017 8:04 AM

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet is due to return to Earth on Friday after a marathon 196-day trip. (Photo: AFP)

Astronauts set to return after marathon ISS mission

Pesquet, 39, and Novitskiy, 45, are due to quit the ISS on Friday morning for a Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft

02 Jun 2017 8:40 AM

An architectural hero

Meet Rashmi Tiwari, who used old plastic bottles to make a restroom for children in a government school.

30 May 2017 6:22 AM

A certain type of communications—very low frequency (VLF) radio communications—have been found to interact with particles in space, affecting how and where they move. (Photo: NASA)

NASA probes spot man-made barrier around Earth

Humans have long been shaping Earth’s landscape, but now scientists have found that we can shape our near-space environment as well.

19 May 2017 9:44 AM

NASA captures strange lights flashing from Earth

One million miles from Earth, a NASA camera is capturing unexpected flashes of light reflecting off our planet.

16 May 2017 2:35 PM

The brick made using artificial Martian soil (Photo: AFP)

Technique to turn Mars or Moon rocks into concrete developed

Making Earth-style concrete requires large amounts of heat and energy, which would be very short supply for first human outposts on Mars

08 May 2017 7:52 AM

Stephen Hawking gives big bang warning to humanity

Hawking claims that time is running out for the Earth and humanity will need to leave the planet for its survival.

04 May 2017 5:22 AM

The bitterness of any experience is in terms of how you have received it.

Mystic Mantra: Is life a bitter pill?

The strength of your volition is what builds karma.

01 May 2017 1:18 AM

NASA discovers new 'icy' planet

The newly-discovered ‘iceball’ planet has the same mass and orbit as Earth.

27 Apr 2017 5:12 PM

An artist impression released by the European Southern Observatory on April 19, 2017 shows a planet named LHS 1140 located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star (Photo: AFP)

'Super-Earth' orbiting nearby star boosts search for extra-solar life

Named LHS 1140b, the planet orbits a star 40 light years away

20 Apr 2017 8:13 AM

An asteroid stretching 650 metres (2,000 feet) across is on track to whoosh past Earth on April 19 at a safe -- but uncomfortably close -- distance

Large asteroid to pass close to Earth today: NASA

The next scheduled close encounter with a big rock will not happen before 2027

19 Apr 2017 8:32 AM

Adopt a piece of Earth through NASA's new campaign

NASA is celebrating Earth Day through their “Adopt the Planet” campaign, wherein users can virtually adopt a piece of Earth.

17 Apr 2017 3:52 PM

The earth has asteroids whizzing past it several times a week but these are smaller in size that the one expected on April 19 ( Representational image)

Large asteroid to hurtle past Earth on April 19

An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak past Earth on April 19 at a safe but uncomfortably close distance

15 Apr 2017 7:48 AM

TV sets in the cosmos?

In science the tradition has been to advance physical theories and check their predictions against a suitable test.

14 Apr 2017 3:22 AM

‘Tatooine’ from Star Wars could actually be a habitable planet

An Earth-sized 'Tatooine' like planet could be quite hospitable if located at the right distance from its two stars.

13 Apr 2017 5:34 PM

Night-time view of India and surrounding area from space in 2016 (Photo: NASA)

NASA releases images of night-time view of India

The image was made possible by the satellite possible by the satellite ‘day-night band’ of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

13 Apr 2017 3:24 PM

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) payload just prior to launch from Wanaka, New Zealand, on a NASA super pressure balloon in May 2016. (Photo: NASA)

NASA delays super pressure balloon launch due to bad weather

This was the third scheduled launch attempt for NASA's 2017 Wanaka Balloon Campaign from New Zealand.

11 Apr 2017 7:54 AM

A Soyuz MS-02 capsule brings Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough back home after a 173-day mission to the International Space Station

US, Russian crew lands after six-month stay on space station

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough was accompanied by Russian space agency cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko

11 Apr 2017 7:40 AM

Scientists are not sure why Mars' atmosphere became vulnerable to the solar wind, but suspect it had to do with the loss of the planet's magnetic field.

Solar wind turned Mars into dry, cold planet: study

The measurements show that Mars has lost 66 percent of its argon since the planet formed some 4.6 billion years ago.

01 Apr 2017 9:27 AM

Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX has for years been honing the technology of powering its boosters back to careful Earth landings on solid ground and in the water

SpaceX launches its first recycled rocket in historic leap

If SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket system proves reusable, it could slash space launch costs by 30 per cent

31 Mar 2017 8:09 AM

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