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Record-breaking astronaut Peggy Whitson set to return to Earth

Peggy Whitson is set to depart the International Space Station (ISS) and return to Earth after completing a 288-day long...

2 Sept 2017 12:31 PM IST

Electric car maker Teslas CEO Elon Musk gives the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window

Musk had fired at least seven members of the program's senior management team at the Redmond.

31 Oct 2018 4:41 PM IST

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

Hubble space telescope returns to science operations: NASA

NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope has returned to normal operations, and completed its first science observations.

29 Oct 2018 6:45 PM IST

A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut survived an aborted liftoff after a Soyuz rocket bound for the ISS failed in mid-air.

China's 1st private rocket fails after launch

The first attempt by a private Chinese company to send a rocket into space has failed.

28 Oct 2018 11:06 AM IST

Virgin Atlantic has taken one of their commuter Boeing 747-400 aircraft, called the Cosmic Girl, and modified it heavily to make the rocket launch possible. (Photo: Virgin Orbit)

Virgin Atlantic's special Boeing 747 will launch rockets soon

Virgin Orbit's Launcher One rocket will deliver satellites to orbit while launched from a Boeing 747.

27 Oct 2018 1:53 PM IST

The new research was made possible by the discovery by NASAs Curiosity Mars rover of manganese oxides. (Photo: AFP)

Mars likely to have enough oxygen for life support

As per a latest report, salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen.

23 Oct 2018 4:36 PM IST

Giant galaxy supercluster found lurking in early Universe

Giant galaxy supercluster found lurking in early Universe

The structure is the largest and most massive to be found so early in the formation of the Universe.

21 Oct 2018 10:51 AM IST

Hyperion has a mass 1 million billion times greater than the sun and is so distant that it is viewed from earth as it looked billions of years ago.

Scientists in Chile unveil 'A Cosmic Titan' cluster of galaxies

Hyperion is like 5,000 galaxies of the Milky Way.

19 Oct 2018 10:07 AM IST

This weeks Soyuz rocket launch was aborted but Russia said the next manned mission to the International Space Station could be brought forward. (Photo: AFP)

Russia may bring forward manned launch after rocket failure

Russia said it was likely to bring forward the flight of a new manned space mission to the International Space Station.

14 Oct 2018 6:11 PM IST

Last year, Saudi Arabias Public Investment Fund said it planned to invest about $1 billion in Bransons space company, Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit.

Virgin's Branson halts talks on $1 billion Saudi investment in space...

Branson also said he would suspend his directorship in two Saudi tourism projects around the Red Sea.

12 Oct 2018 10:20 AM IST

US astronaut Nick Hague, right and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, member of the main crew of the expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), walk prior the launch of Soyuz MS-10 space ship at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, Pool)

Russian space rocket fails in mid-air, two-man US-Russian crew lands...

US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely.

11 Oct 2018 6:07 PM IST

The first test launch of the Space Launch System rocket, which is supposed to send humans to the moon and ultimately allow deep space exploration, was most recently slated for mid-2020 with a crew launch to follow in 2022. (Representational image/ Photo: NASA)

Boeing rocket for NASA over budget, could further delay launch: audit

Boeing is building the largest rocket in NASA's history but the aerospace giant's poor performance has resulted in an...

11 Oct 2018 10:34 AM IST