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The agreement, signed by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ISA Director-General Uri Oron, sets out principles for cooperation in space exploration and civil use of the Moon, Mars, comets and asteroids for peaceful purposes, ISA added.
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A new era in space exploration has just begun with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most sophisticated space laboratory ever built, successfully reaching its destination — a gravitational parking spot in an orbit around the Sun nearly 1.50 million miles from Earth. There are several fascinating scientific possibilities arising out of this extraordinarily complex […]
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Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, Global temperatures in 2021 were 0.85 degrees Celsius above the average for NASA's baseline period
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New Delhi: Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA. Continuing the planet’s long-term warming trend, Global temperatures in 2021 were 0.85 […]
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Washington: NASA has named Katherine Calvin to serve as chief scientist and senior climate adviser, the agency said in a press release. “NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced that Dr. Katherine Calvin will serve the agency in dual roles as chief scientist and senior climate adviser effective Monday,” the release said on Monday. Nelson in the […]
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A joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission will explore every phase of cosmic history from within our solar system to the most distant observable galaxies in the early universe.
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By Marcia Rieke The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away on December 25 on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) soared from French Guiana on South America’s northeastern coast, riding a European […]
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The global scientific community could not have asked for a better Christmas gift. The successful launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful and complex space observatory ever built, serves as a perfect gift that is expected to unravel the mysteries of the universe. The launch of the $10-billion telescope, a far […]
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New Delhi: Described as the Apollo moment for science, NASA’s James Webb telescope — on its way toward its destination in orbit about 1 million miles from Earth — has begun six months of commissioning in space, before it scouts for first galaxies and distant worlds. At the end of commissioning, the world’s largest and […]
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Washington (US): James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful space telescope ever constructed, will lift off on Christmas. The USD 10 billion project spanning over three decades, a collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency, hopes to look further back in time than ever before – to find […]
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NASA has announced the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at 7.20 am EST (5.50 pm India time) on December 24. Webb, the world’s premier space science observatory, will succeed the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s flagship telescope that has been in service for over thirty years now. According to NASA, Webb is not […]
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Hyderabad: Driven by their curiosity in astronomy, two young brothers from the city have discovered two main-belt asteroids. Morapaka Abhiram and Morapaka Vishwaksena studying in 7th and 4th grades respectively at Ravindra Bharathi School in Nizampet here have discovered these two main-belt asteroids which were named as 2021 GB34 and 2021 GG166. According to the […]
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Hyderabad: Indian-origin doctor Anil Menon has been making headlines after he was selected along with nine others to be astronauts for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s future space missions. Meaning he could be on the flight to the Moon someday. He reports for duty in January 2022. Menon was SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, helping […]
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lying into the solar atmosphere," said Michael Stevens, an astrophysicist at the CfA who helps monitor the cup.
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Washington: Indian-origin Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel with the US Air Force and SpaceX’s first flight surgeon, has been selected by NASA among the 10 new astronauts who could fly to the Moon someday. Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Menon helped launch the Elon Musk-run SpaceX’s first humans to space during the ‘Demo-2’ mission […]
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Washington: The US space agency is planning to replace the International Space Station (ISS) with one or more commercial space stations by 2030. NASA’s auditing body, the Office of Audits, has produced a report detailing the agency’s commitment to replace the orbiting lab with commercial space stations. Astronauts have lived and worked onboard the ISS […]
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The findings, described in a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, showed a planetary system that comprises a star and at least two gas giant planets, each roughly the size of Saturn and located unusually close to one another.
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Attero Recycling is an end-to-end e-waste management solutions company and is one of the few such recyclers globally. The company has to date saved more than 1,00,000 metric tonnes of carbon and is focused on producing sustainable materials such as cobalt, tin, nickel, copper, silver and gold completing the circular economy value chain. Nitin Gupta, CEO […]
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Washington: NASA and the Elon Musk-owned private rocket company SpaceX have finally launched four more astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station (ISS). After a number of delays, the launch finally took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 9.03 p.m. on Wednesday, launching on top of one of SpaceX’s […]
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In retaliation, Blue Origin applied to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) in April, and put SpaceX's lunar lander contract on hold for 95 days.
