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NASA releases Kepler Survey Catalog with hundreds of new planet candidates
Washington: NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that introduces 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and…
NASA’s CPEX tackles a weather fundamental
Washington: A NASA-funded field campaign getting underway in Florida on May 25 has a real shot at improving meteorologists' ability to answer some of the most fundamental questions…
Mars Rover opportunity begins study of Valley’s origin
Washington: NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the main destination of its current two-year extended mission -- an ancient fluid-carved valley incised on the…
NASA-funded research reveals lull in the formation time of mega basins on Mars
Washington: Since the earliest days of our solar system’s history, asteroid impacts have shaped the planets and contributed to their evolution. New research funded by NASA shows…
Researchers trying to detect life in the ultra-dry Atacama Desert
Washington: Few places are as hostile to life as Chile's Atacama Desert. It's the driest non-polar desert on Earth, and only the hardiest microbes survive there. Its rocky…
The Making Of A History
By DILIP GHOSH
Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO made history on February 15, 2015 when its PSLV rocket placed 104 satellites into the space in a single mission. The…
India creates history as ISRO sends record 104 satellites at one go
New Delhi: India today created history by launching a record 104 satellites on a single rocket from the spaceport in Sriharikota.
With this successful launch, India becomes the…
NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite sends first images to Earth
Washington: GOES-16, the first spacecraft in NOAA’s next-generation of geostationary satellites, has sent the first high-resolution images from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI)…
NASA selects mission to study Black Holes, cosmic x-ray mysteries
Washington: NASA has selected a science mission that will allow astronomers to explore, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most extreme and exotic astronomical…
India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Agni-5 surface-to-surface ballistic missile
Agni-5, the Long Range Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile was successfully flight tested by DRDO today at 1100hrs from Dr Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha, a report from the government…