Man in India Not Killed by Meteorite, Says NASA
Washington, Feb 10 (IANS) Scientists at the US space agency NASA have discounted reports that an Indian bus driver in Tamil Nadu was killed by a meteorite, saying he was likely hit by a land…
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Rocky Exoplanets Have Earth-Like Interiors: Study
A look at some of the small, rocky exoplanets discovered by Kepler. Photo: NASA New York, Feb 9 (IANS) The interior structure of rocky exoplanets orbiting other stars will have interiors very similar to Earth…
NASA Engineers Use Super Bowl to Decode Aerodynamics
Washington, Feb 8 (IANS) Aerodynamics engineers including an Indian-origin scientist are studying sports balls to learn lessons in aerodynamics that will help build aircrafts more earth-friendly and allow spacecrafts to take the most efficient route…
Small Asteroid to Visit Earth on March 5 Without Any Impact
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) A small asteroid that is expected to make its closest approach to Earth on March 5 will pass peacefully without disturbing our world at a distance of between 9,000-17,000 km. According…
Apollo 14 Astronaut Who Walked on the Moon Dies at 85
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, a module pilot on Apollo 14 mission that touched down the lunar surface on February 5, 1971, died in Florida this week on the eve of the 45th…
New Horizon Probe Captures Pluto’s Mysterious, Floating Hills
Washington, Feb 5 (IANS) In yet another example of Pluto’s fascinating and abundant geological activity, NASA’s New Horizon has captured nitrogen ice glaciers carrying an intriguing cargo – numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sets Flight Path for Jupiter Date
Washington, Feb 4 (IANS) Set to arrive at Jupiter this year to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit, NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully executed a maneuver to adjust its flight path on…
Chandra Observatory Spots Spectacular Jet in Faraway Galaxy
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS) New images taken from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory show a spectacular jet that emanates from a black hole in the centre of the galaxy and extends across 300,000 years toward a…
NASA’s Mars-Bound Spacecraft Lands in Florida for Tests
New York, Feb 2 (IANS) The Orion capsule, NASA’s spacecraft designed to land humans on Mars, was carried from the US space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Centre Florida for…
In a First, Watch ‘Invisible’ Magnetic Sun in Action
Washington, Feb 1 (IANS) NASA space scientists, trying hard to understand the Sun’s electromagnetic field that is crucial for future deep space travel, have released a first-ever video model of the Sun showing how its…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sends Super Cool Selfie from Mars
Washington, Jan 30 (IANS) In its latest selfie sent back home, NASA’s Curiosity rover shows the car-size mobile laboratory beside a dark dune where it has been scooping and sieving samples of sand. The new…
Hubble Spots Mammoth Cloud Boomerang Back to Our Galaxy
Washington, Jan 29 (IANS) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a monstrous cloud of hydrogen gas that is plummeting toward our galaxy at nearly 1.1 million km per hour. Though hundreds of enormous, high-velocity gas…
NASA Snap Shows Pluto’s Atmosphere in Infrared Wavelength
New York, Jan 29 (IANS) The US space agency NASA has released a photo taken by its New Horizons spacecraft that shows Pluto’s atmosphere in infrared wavelengths. It is the first image of the atmosphere…
NASA Radar Maps New View Of World Heritage Site
The hummingbird glyph and its surroundings in the Nasa world heritage site. (Photo: NASA) Washington, Jan 28 (IANS) In just two 10-minute overflights, an airborne NASA radar has pinpointed areas of disturbance in Peru’s Nasca…
Humanoid Robots in Deep Space Soon
SUBJECT: High quality, production photos of Valkyrie Robot for PAOPHOTOGRAPHERS: BILL STAFFORD, JAMES BLAIR, REGAN GEESEMAN New York, Jan 25 (IANS) The US space agency NASA is considering making new humanoid robots that could offer…
NASA Captures Massive US East Coast ‘Snowzilla’ from Space
The massive winter storm system pummeled the eastern US, dumping nearly 58 cm of snow in suburbs of Washington DC to New York. (Photo: NASA) Washington, Jan 24 (IANS) The US space agency has captured…
Curiosity Rover Tastes Scooped Sand for First Time on Mars
Washington, Jan 22 (IANS) At its current location for inspecting an active sand dune, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is adding some sample-processing moves not previously used on the Red Planet. Sand from the second and…
Footballfield-Sized Balloon Studying Solar Flares over Antarctica
The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for Solar flares, or GRIPS, payload launched into the sky on a giant balloon on Jan. 18, 2016. It will ride the winds around the South Pole for at least two weeks…
Space Gardening Can Help Astronauts Reduce Stress!
Mizuna lettuce growing aboard the International Space Station before being harvested and frozen for a return to Earth. Image credit: NASA Washington, Jan 20 (IANS) You must have seen the picture of the solitary orange…
NASA Looks to Public to Help Design Robotic Arm
New York, Jan 20 (IANS) Members of the public, not to mention budding scientists and engineers with spare time and creative minds, get ready for some action to contrive a robotic arm! For, the National…