"nasa"

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 […]

lying into the solar atmosphere," said Michael Stevens, an astrophysicist at the CfA who helps monitor the cup.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Berlin: A joint European-Japanese spacecraft is set to fly by Mercury for the first time late Friday on its path to deliver two probes into the planet’s orbit in 2025.The BepiColombo mission will make the first of six flybys of Mercury at about 2334 GMT, using the planet’s gravity to slow itself down. As it […]

The pulsar in this explosion is known as the PSR B1509-58. It is about 19 km in diameter and 17,000 light years away from Earth. 

While astronomers have known that early, massive galaxies turn quiescent, but until now, no one knew why.

Engineering teams have completed Webb's long-spanning comprehensive testing regimen at Northrop Grumman's facilities.

A spate of failures, including the recent unsuccessful GSLV-F10 launch mission, has come as a setback to an otherwise glorious track record of ISRO

The US space agency was expected to pick two lunar lander prototypes (including one of Blue Origin's) but funding cut from US Congress led the agency to select SpaceX over Blue Origin

The prestigious honour recognises the pioneering rotorcraft for its history-making flights on the Red Planet, NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.

The car-sized Perseverance landed inside the Red Planet's Jezero Crater this past February with an objective to search for signs of ancient microbial life.

Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics had filed a protest with the US GAO against NASA for awarding $2.9 billion contract to SpaceX for landing astronauts on the Moon by 2024.

NASA released a short video of particular CME and said the CME was seen in extreme ultraviolet light by Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in 2013, but it did not head toward Earth

The scientists found the crust was thinner than expected and may have two or even three sub-layers.

This feat has been achieved by researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NIICT) and they have used existing optical fibre infrastructure.