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To lighten the mood as New Horizons aims for a 2019 flyby, the research team is holding a naming contest. (Photo: NASA)

NASA seeks nickname for New Horizons next flyby target

Scientists at NASA have started a campaign inviting the public to choose an informal name for the New Horizons mission's...

8 Nov 2017 6:23 PM IST

InSight will be the first mission to look deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planets interior by listening for marsquakes.

NASA to carry over 1.6 million names to the Red Planet

Mars enthusiasts signed up to have their names etched on a microchip that will be carried on NASA's upcoming InSight...

7 Nov 2017 3:15 PM IST

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

Return of the comet: 96P spotted by ESA, NASA satellites

The comet entered the lower right corner of SOHO's view on October 25, and skirted up and around the right edge before...

5 Nov 2017 11:52 AM IST

Internet entrepreneur Elon Musks 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's Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022

Plans include cargo ships to Mars in five years and use rockets to carry people between Earth's major cities in under...

30 Sept 2017 9:19 AM IST

The successor to the famed Hubble Space Telescope, Webb will now launch between March and June 2019 from French Guiana

NASA delays launch of James Webb Space Telescope to 2019

The 6.5-metre diameter infrared-optimised telescope is designed to study an extremely wide range of astrophysical...

30 Sept 2017 9:14 AM IST

Tesla founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk (Photo: AP)

SpaceX: Rocket for moon, Mars and NY-to-Shanghai in 39 mins

A seat should cost about the same as a full-fare economy plane ticket, he noted later via Instagram.

30 Sept 2017 9:02 AM IST

Chris Cassidy is biking 600 miles across the Amazon to raise awareness about climate change and record its effects.

NASA astronaut to bike across Amazon in climate change film

Chris Cassidy is keeping his exploration impulses down-to-earth.

30 Sept 2017 8:59 AM IST

Lockheed Martin is among several companies working on deep space habitats with NASA, which hopes to send the first astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.

This Mars lander will allow humans to explore the Red Planet

NASA is planning missions into the space between Earth and the Moon for the next decade to prepare for trips to Mars.

29 Sept 2017 11:38 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

Asteroid-bound spacecraft zips by Earth for gravity boost

The spacecraft zipped over Antarctica at a distance of 11,000 miles (17,000 kilometers), using Earth's gravity to shift...

23 Sept 2017 7:42 AM IST

Christian numerologist David Meade has warned that the mysterious planet Nibiru is about to smash into Earth. (Photo: Pixabay)

Is world ending for real on Sept 23? Maybe science has another answer

The latest world-ending theory seems to be pointless as science has no proof of the mysterious planet's existence.

20 Sept 2017 7:28 PM IST

When NASA was looking for a new class of astronauts, only 12 were selected from a whopping 18,300 applicants.

Want a job at NASA? Read this first

The starting pay is pretty good, but the jobs are pretty hard to get, tough to keep.

18 Sept 2017 11:39 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

NASA space psychology subjects ending 8 months of isolation

The crew of four men and two women were quarantined on a vast plain below the summit of the world's largest active...

17 Sept 2017 8:54 AM IST