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This NASA file photo taken on August 3, 2002 shows an artists rendition of the Voyager spacecraft, which is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its launch. (Photo: AFP)

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Forty years on, NASA's unmanned spaceships still hurtles through space

Voyager's main mission was to explore other planets including Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

27 Aug 2017 8:17 AM IST

This picture released by NASA shows the Great Red Spot on Jupiter -- one of a number of breathtaking images taken by the Juno Spacecraft on a July 11 flyby of the solar systems largest planet. (photo: AFP)

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NASA releases series of new stunning images of raging storm on Jupiter

NASA's Juno spacecraft flew over the storm late Monday, offering humanity's closest look yet at the iconic feature of...

13 July 2017 7:58 AM 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

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Beer has a new address: The moon

The experiment will see the viability of yeast on the moon.

28 Jan 2017 12:17 AM 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.

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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

SpaceX is working on a version of its Dragon capsule that will carry crew to the space station, perhaps as early as next year (Photo: AFP)

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SpaceX craft returns to Earth after 2nd space station trip

A SpaceX Dragon capsule that brought supplies to the International Space Station has splashed down as planned in the...

4 July 2017 8:45 AM IST

Junos principal goal is to understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Underneath its dense cloud cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.

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NASA's Juno probe set to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot

NASA's Juno spacecraft is set to fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot on July 10.

3 July 2017 8:21 AM IST

The discovery was made through an analysis of images and data collected by NASAs New Horizons spacecraft. (Photo:NASA)

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Underground ocean found on Pluto, likely slushy with ice

Scientists have found a hidden ocean beneath the frozen surface containing as much water as all of Earth's seas.

17 Nov 2016 8:14 AM IST

$The cargo spacecraft mission provides an \important technological basis\ to build a Chinese space station (Photo: AFP)$ Science

Spacecraft unveiled for first Europe mission to Mercury

The craft has an unusual design, comprising a "stacked aircraft" carrying two orbiters -- one European, the other...

6 July 2017 6:39 PM IST

This NASA handout image depicts the Cassini unmanned spacecraft above Saturns rings

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Saturn's moon Enceladus may have tipped over: study

Researchers found evidence that the moon's spin axis - the line through the north and south poles - has reoriented.

31 May 2017 2:31 PM IST

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Possible key ingredients of life discovered on Saturn's Moon

NASA finds Moon of Saturn has chemical that could form Membranes.'

30 July 2017 10:26 AM IST

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'Lost' Chandrayaan-1 found orbiting Moon: NASA

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost communication with Chandrayaan-1 on August 29, 2009, almost a year after...

10 March 2017 3:44 PM IST