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Magnetic tug nears derelict satellite (Image: ESA)

Can magnetic space tug clean up space junk?

To combat space debris, interest is growing in plucking entire satellites from space.

25 Jun 2017 8:48 AM

Concepts Uranus and Neptune Illustration of compositional differences among the giant planets and their relative sizes Left: Arriving at Uranus in 1986, Voyager 2 observed a bluish orb with subtle features. A haze layer hid most of the planet's cloud features from view. Right: This image of Neptune was produced from Voyager 2 and shows the Great Dark Spot and its companion bright smudge. Credits: Left: NASA/JPL-Caltech - Right: NASA

NASA completes study of future ‘Ice Giant’ mission concept

NASA plans probe of mysterious ice giants in the outer Solar System.

23 Jun 2017 4:09 PM

The candidates include 10 newly discovered rocky worlds that are properly distanced from their parent stars for water, if it exists, to pool on their surfaces. Scientists believe liquid water is a key ingredient for life.

Kepler telescope finds 10 more possible life-friendly planets

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the Kepler telescope in 2009.

20 Jun 2017 8:16 AM

China is planning a manned mission to the Moon, and officials have announced that the preliminary preparations for the lunar landing have begun.

China plans to send mini-ecosystems to Moon

China is planning to send mini-ecosystems - containing potato seeds and silkworm eggs - to the Moon next year.

19 Jun 2017 7:52 AM

Russia's Progress M-28M cargo ship blasts off from the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 3, 2015

Russia launches space freighter to ISS

Russia has launched an unmanned Progress cargo ship carrying supplies to the International Space Station.

15 Jun 2017 8:19 AM

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called “Pahrump Hills” on lower Mount Sharp, in 2014 and 2015. This view shows locations of some targets the rover studied there. The blue dots indicate where drilled samples of powdered rock were collected for analysis. (NASA Image)

Evidence of wide diversity of minerals discovered on Mars

NASA scientists have found a wide diversity of minerals in the initial samples of rocks collected by the Curiosity rover.

12 Jun 2017 1:23 PM

Space might hold the key to beating cancer

Researchers are growing lung cancer cells with gold in space, which might hold the key to beating cancer.

09 Jun 2017 5:12 PM

New NASA tech to help drones land safely

The software links on-board drone components like batteries and motors to monitor their health.

29 May 2017 5:10 PM

India’s largest rocket ever made, to be tested in June

The rocket made by ISRO rocket, is 200 full-grown Asian elephants put together heavy and is going to be tested in the first week of June

28 May 2017 4:55 PM

When completed will be the world's largest optical telescope, some five times larger than the top observing instruments in use today.

Construction starts on world's largest telescope

The size of the ELT has the potential to transform our understanding of the universe.

27 May 2017 9:23 AM

Scientists have known since the early 1970s that the inner parts of the Milky Way galaxy are a strong source of gamma-rays, indicating the existence of antimatter, but there had been no settled view on where the antimatter came from.

Scientists decode the formation of antimatter in our galaxy

The antimatter came from a system where two white dwarfs form a binary system and collide with each other.

26 May 2017 8:16 PM

It was the world's first successful launch from a private site, and was seen as a further advancement in the move towards private enterprise carrying small satellites and other cargo towards the stars.

New Zealand becomes the 11th country to launch into space

The rocket blasted off from the company's facility at Mahia, on the east coast of the North Island.

25 May 2017 4:07 PM

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

Christina Morrison presented her research at the 2017 Arizona Space Grant Symposium in Tempe. This fall she will begin graduate studies in environmental engineering at one of the several universities where she has been accepted. (Photo credit: Irma Perez)

Doing laundry in Outer Space? She's working on a solution for that

UA College of Engineering senior Christina Morrison is seeking answers to a Earth problem for space travelers: how to keep clothes clean.

14 May 2017 8:44 PM

Could micro organisms survive space travel?

New study conducted by researchers from Chicago university of technology simulates whether organisms could survive space travel.

02 May 2017 2:27 PM

NASA discovers new 'icy' planet

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

27 Apr 2017 5:12 PM

The European Space Agency, or ESA, has described its "Moon Village" as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars.

China in talks with European Space Agency about moon outpost

China has ramped up its space program since its first manned spaceflight in 2003

26 Apr 2017 1:20 PM

ISRO Chairman A S Kiran Kumar had earlier said that the mission to Venus is on the horizon and studies are underway.

ISRO invites proposals for space experiments to study Venus

The Announcement of Opportunity (AO) is for space experiments by institutions in the country

25 Apr 2017 7:54 AM

The cargo spacecraft mission provides an "important technological basis" to build a Chinese space station (Photo: AFP)

China's first cargo spacecraft docks with orbiting Tiangong-2 space lab

Beijing’s goal is to establish a permanently manned space station by 2022

22 Apr 2017 12:27 PM

Vodafone followed in the tally with 209.06 million subscribers and Idea Cellular with 195.37 million subscribers.

Mobile subscriber base reaches 895.25 mn in March

The numbers include those of the latest entrant, Reliance Jio Infocomm as of December 2016