- Spend next New Year's Eve with new spacecraft: NASA
New York, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, will encounter the most primitive and most distant ob...
07 Jan, 2018, 01.02 PM IST
- New Horizons' next flyby target could be two icy bodies
Washington, Aug 5 (IANS) Even as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft gets ready for the most distant flyby in the history of space exploration, ...
05 Aug, 2017, 03.17 PM IST
- NASA releases new maps of Pluto, Charon
Washington, July 15 (IANS) To mark the two-year anniversary of New Horizons' historic Pluto flyby, NASA has released new maps of Pluto and ...
15 Jul, 2017, 11.07 AM IST
NASA spacecraft to explore ancient object beyond PlutoThe object is in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region that surrounds the solar system and is filled with trillions of icy rocks that have yet ...
26 Jan, 2017, 04.38 PM IST
- NASA probe finds hint of cloud on Pluto
New York, Oct 19 (IANS) Scientists from NASAs New Horizons mission claim to have identified some cloud candidates on Pluto after examining ...
19 Oct, 2016, 02.42 PM IST
- Charon's red spot caused by Pluto's atmosphere
Washington, Sep 15 (IANS) Examining images obtained by NASA's New Horizons probe, scientists have found that the reddish spot at the North ...
15 Sep, 2016, 10.47 AM IST
NASA probe beams best close-up images of PlutoThe view in the mosaic extends from the "limb" of Pluto almost to the "terminator" or day/night line in the southeast of the encounter hemi...
30 May, 2016, 11.27 AM IST
NASA's Pluto probe begins intensive data downlink phaseEven moving at light speed, the radio signals from New Horizons containing data need more than four and a half hours to cover the 3 billion...
07 Sep, 2015, 06.27 PM IST
NASA New Horizons spacecraft finds haze, flowing ice on PlutoAnalysis of the image shows two distinct layers of haze - one about 80 kilometres above the surface and the other at 50 kilometres.
26 Jul, 2015, 02.30 PM IST
Pluto larger than previously thought: NASAThe size was determined from images acquired with the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard New Horizons spacecraft.
14 Jul, 2015, 03.37 PM IST
NASA counts down to nail-biter Pluto flybyA NASA spacecraft will reveal details of Pluto's surface for the first time, as it speeds by the dwarf planet after a near decade-long jour...
14 Jul, 2015, 01.02 PM IST
A group of astronomers is the only reason NASA is about to visit the last unexplored worldA spacecraft that's been traveling for 10 years is about to make history when it flies past Pluto and captures our first close up view of t...
08 Jul, 2015, 01.21 PM IST
NASA spacecraft ready for Pluto flyby after glitchThe recent computer glitch that triggered communication breakdown with NASA's New Horizon spacecraft has been rectified.
06 Jul, 2015, 05.04 PM IST
NASA reveals colour images of Pluto and CharonThese near-true colour movies were assembled from images made in three colours by the multi-colour visible imaging camera on the instrument...
22 Jun, 2015, 04.22 PM IST
NASA spacecraft beams new images of PlutoImages of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft are growing in scale as the spacecraft approaches its mysterious target.
28 May, 2015, 04.36 PM IST
'Beam Me to Mars' sends 90,000 messages into spaceIn a tribute to NASA's first successful mission to Mars 50 years ago,space funding corporation Uwingu sent 90,000 personal messages by radi...
30 Nov, 2014, 02.56 PM IST
- US prepared to take UBS tax evasion case to trial
The US government said Wednesday it was ready for trial Monday after no settlement was reached in a diplomatically sensitive case seeking t...
30 Jul, 2009, 01.13 AM IST