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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.

The experiment, initiated by NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, will cultivate 48 Hatch chile pepper seeds in an Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), a plant growth chamber which is about the size of a kitchen oven

The image has been shared on the space administration’s official Instagram account.

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Wally Funk, who is one of the 13 women who passed NASA’s astronaut training program in the 1960s, will be aboard the July 20 launch from West Texas, flying in the capsule as an “honored guest.”

On summer solstice, the northern hemisphere receives most daylight from the Sun

During the flyby on June 7, Juno came within 645 miles (1,038 kilometres) of the surface of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede and took two images from the Jupiter orbiter's JunoCam imager and from its Stellar Reference Unit star camera.

The two missions were selected, based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans, from four mission concepts that NASA picked in February 2020

Raja Chari, a man with Telugu roots, is gearing up to SpaceX Crew-3 Mission to ISS scheduled in October this year