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Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the foremost lab of NASA for work on inter-planetary travel, discovered the new bacteria on the filters of the International Space Station (ISS) and named it Solibacillus kalamii to honour the late president, who was a renowned aerospace scientist.

In tribute to Kalam, NASA names new species after him

Scientists at NASA have named a new organism discovered by them after the much-loved A P J Abdul Kalam.

21 May 2017 12:58 PM IST

The combined power of three space observatories has helped uncover the moon orbiting the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 in the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar systems formation 4.6 billion years ago. (Photo: NASA)

Moon orbiting solar system's 3rd largest dwarf planet found

With this discovery, most of the known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt larger than 965 kilometres across have...

20 May 2017 8:24 AM IST

Chandini Veeramachaneni Guntupalli

Stellar dreams

For Chandini Veeramachaneni Guntupalli, working with NASA and currently on the Cassini spacecraft project, is a dream...

21 May 2017 12:33 AM IST

A certain type of communicationsvery low frequency (VLF) radio communicationshave 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...

19 May 2017 9:44 AM IST

The study by scientists from NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was the first to precisely track a glaciers loss of mass from melting ice using the horizontal motion of a Global Positioning System.

NASA discovers new mode of ice loss in Greenland

This long pulse of mass loss, called a solitary wave, may increase the potential for sustained ice loss in Greenland

26 May 2017 4:50 PM IST

The international Space Station

Astronauts pull of space station repairs

NASA scrambled to put together a spacewalk so there would be a backup in case that second unit failed

24 May 2017 8:11 PM IST

First African-American to fly to ISS, Jeanett Epps (Photo: Twitter/@Astro_Jeanette)

First African-American astronaut set to fly to ISS

While African-American astronauts have travelled on US space shuttle missions, Jeanette Epps will be the first on the...

5 Jan 2017 5:59 PM IST

Nasa has pinpointed C/2016 U1 NEOWISE as a comet, which is set to fly close to Earth this week.

Close brush with comet

Nasa says mysterious object is set to fly close to Earth this week.

5 Jan 2017 5:21 AM IST

Gravitational Wave

The genius 15

Following is a list of important scientific discoveries and innovations from the year 2016.

5 Jan 2017 4:15 AM IST

Space X is owned and operated by Tesla Motors Chief Executive Officer Musk.

SpaceX aims for Jan. 8 return to flight with Falcon rocket

SpaceX had suspended flights after the same model rocket went up in a blaze on Sept. 1.

3 Jan 2017 8:08 AM IST

Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017, making the years final minute 61 seconds long. (Photo: NASA)

NASA captures image of ISS crossing Sun

The ISS orbits the Earth at an altitude of about 330 to 435 kilometres that it would be very difficult to see it...

1 Jan 2017 9:28 PM IST

Potatoes. (Photo: Representational Image)

Scientists grow potato under Mars-like conditions in Peru

Scientists are reporting promising results growing the tuber under conditions that mimic the Red Planet.

11 March 2017 11:17 AM IST