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Tiangong-1 was originally planned to be decommissioned in 2013 but China has repeatedly extended the length of its mission. (Representative Image)

China's Tiangong-1 space lab to fall into Earth's atmosphere this...

The Tiangong-1 ceased functioning in March 2016 and is rumoured to be out of control since then.

28 March 2018 7:57 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

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

Donald Trump ordered the creation of a sixth branch. (Photo: Pixabay)

Trump calls to create Space Force as sixth military branch

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the creation of a sixth branch of the military to focus on space.

19 Jun 2018 10:38 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

The country had on 24 September 2014 successfully placed the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft in the orbit around the red plane.

Mars valleys were created by run-off rainwater: study

The atmosphere on Mars may have been much denser about 3.6 to 3.8 billion years ago than it is today.

30 Jun 2018 4:13 PM IST

A team led by Frank Postberg and Nozair Khawaja they had identified fragments of large organic molecules in ice grains that were ejected from geysers through cracks in the moons icy exterior. (Photo: NASA)

New Cassini findings suggest Saturn moon could support life

The Cassini spacecraft first flew close to the ice-covered moon in 2005 as part of a mission to gather data on Saturn.

29 Jun 2018 8:35 AM IST

Cimon has Gersts face and voice imprinted in its memory. (Photo: AP)

A robot with true AI is about to invade space

A German robot named Cimon is a friendly guy and he has this hard power-off button.

29 Jun 2018 7:45 AM IST

- This artists rendering provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the interstellar object named Oumuamua which was discovered on Oct. 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. In the Wednesday, June 27, 2018 edition of the journal Nature, a European-led team makes the case it is a comet, not an asteroid. (Photo: AP)

Comet or asteroid? Scientists ID interstellar visitor

Telescopes first spotted the mysterious red-tinged object last October as it zipped through the inner solar system.

28 Jun 2018 8:52 AM IST