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NASA plans to send the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for blast-off between April 16 and June on a two-year, $337-million mission. (Photo: NASA)

NASA resuming search for planets orbiting stars beyond solar system

NASA expects TESS to detect thousands more previously unknown worlds no larger than twice as big as our home planet.

29 March 2018 7:54 AM IST

Webb will orbit the sun at a point about 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometres) from Earth unreachable in case of a breakdown. (Photo: NASA)

James Webb space telescope launch delayed to 2020

NASA says that more time is needed to assemble and test the James Webb Space Telescope.

28 March 2018 8:59 AM IST

$InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the \inner space\ of Mars. (Photo: AP)$ Science

NASA launches InSight spacecraft to Mars to dig down deep

InSight will dig deeper into Mars than ever before nearly 16 feet, or 5 metres to take the planet's temperature.

6 May 2018 8:57 AM IST

In this image released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with NASAs InSight onboard awaits launch, Friday, May 4, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The rocket is set to launch early Saturday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Spacecraft for detecting 'Marsquakes' set for rare California launch

The Mars InSight probe is due for liftoff on Saturday before dawn from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

5 May 2018 9:26 AM IST

Once past Mars, WALL-E and EVE will remain in an elliptical orbit around the sun, together for years to come. But they wont work for long.

NASA spacecraft will have company all the way to Mars

Atlas V rocket set to launch early morning from California with the Mars InSight lander.

5 May 2018 9:17 AM IST

The new cameras are located near an international docking adapter on the stations Harmony module.

NASA astronauts install high-def cameras during spacewalk

The new high-definition video cameras are designed to help to visit commercial spaceships dock there in the coming...

15 Jun 2018 11:32 AM IST

The distribution of emitted photons over the energy depends on the size of the black hole. (Photo Credit: NASA)

Evidence of rare black hole spotted

Researchers from the UNH in the US found the strongest evidence to date that such middle-of-the-road black holes exist.

19 Jun 2018 8:47 PM IST

Trump had multiple chances to craft a DACA fix with Congress. But one never materialized, despite overwhelming public support for letting Dreamers stay. (Photo: File)

Donald Trump orders US military to work for 'space dominance'

The United States is a member of the Outer Space Treaty, which bars the stationing of weapons of mass destruction in...

19 Jun 2018 8:54 AM IST

The scientists tracked the event with radio and infrared telescopes, including the National Science Foundations Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), in a pair of colliding galaxies called Arp 299. (Photo Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA, STScI)

Astronomers spot supermassive blackhole destroying a star

At the core of one of the galaxies, a black hole 20 million times more massive than the Sun shredded a star more than...

17 Jun 2018 6:41 PM IST

Shes spent more time off the planet than any other American: 665 days over three space station missions. (Photo: AP)

NASA's record-breaking spacewoman retires as astronaut

"It's safe to say my journey at NASA has been out of this world, says Peggy Whitson

16 Jun 2018 1:59 PM IST

Scientists have found evidence of widespread water in the Moons interior. (Photo: AFP)

Distant moons may be habitable

Researchers identified around 100 giant planets that potentially host moons capable of supporting life.

16 Jun 2018 11:10 AM IST

Watch out for the blood moon on July 27. (Photo: Pixabay)

India's quest to find a trillion-dollar nuclear fuel on the Moon

China is the only country to put a lander and rover on the moon this century with its Chang'e 3 mission in 2013.

30 Jun 2018 11:44 AM IST