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Mike Pence trolled by Twitterati for ignoring 'Do Not Touch' sign

The Trump administration has been landing into a lot of controversies lately.

10 July 2017 5:56 PM IST

Nasas EM drive propulsion tech will propel us to the Moon in four hours. And to Mars in 70 days.

Technology

NASA's robotic spacecraft to study giant metal asteroid

The Psyche mission will explore 16 Psyche, a giant metal asteroid about three times farther away from the Sun than is...

20 Jan 2017 7:54 PM IST

Newsmakers

The moonwalker with message of peace dies at 82

Cernan was commander of Nasa's Apollo 17 mission and on his third space flight when he set foot on the lunar surface.

18 Jan 2017 2:36 AM IST

This January 1, 1971 image courtesy of NASA shows Apollo astronaut Eugene A. Cernan

Newsmakers

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82

Cernan was the spacecraft commander of Apollo 17.

17 Jan 2017 7:29 AM IST

In this image made from video provided by NASA, US astronauts Peggy Whitson, above, and Shane Kimbrough work on the outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, March 30, 2017. An important piece of micrometeorite shielding was lost during the spacewalk. (Photo: NASA via AP)

Science

Spacewalkers use patch after losing lose piece of shielding

The astronauts filled the gap using the cover that they had just removed from the relocated docking port.

31 March 2017 10:30 AM IST

Newsmakers

Peggy Whitson set to break Sunita Williams' spacewalking record

Williams has made seven spacewalks totalling 50 hours and 40 minutes

30 March 2017 3:19 PM IST

Scientists and engineers envision tiling the squares together like a quilt to make a complete sensor network.

Science

NASA's 'sensory skin' can detect damages outside spacecraft

The new invention uses a series of several technologies to create circuits printed on thin layers

27 March 2017 8:27 AM IST

The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives. (Photo: AP)

Science

Best weather satellite ever built rockets into space

NASA declared success 3 1/2 hours after liftoff, following separation from the upper stage.

21 Nov 2016 9:09 AM IST

Age on Sunday

A home designed to be away

An all-Indian team has set out to explore what Mars will be like to live on.

29 Jan 2017 4:45 AM IST

The challenge now is to untangle how many of the observed changes are specific to the physical demands of spaceflight - and how many might be simply due to natural variations. (Representational image)

Science

Space travel may cause genetic changes: study

Scientists studied the genetic differences between astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent nearly a year in space, and his...

28 Jan 2017 3:57 PM IST

$NASA astronauts Virgil \Gus\ Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died when thick smoke filled the crew module of the Apollo 1 capsule on January 27, 1967.$ Science

NASA unveils spaceship hatch 50 years after fatal Apollo 1 fire

Apollo launchpad fire was the first deadly accident in the space agency's early days.

28 Jan 2017 3:17 PM IST

The object is in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region that surrounds the solar system and is filled with trillions of icy rocks that have yet to be explored.

Science

NASA spacecraft to explore ancient object beyond Pluto

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on its way to explore a small, ancient object located about 1.6 billion km beyond...

27 Jan 2017 7:58 AM IST