NASA test drives Nissan's driverless carNASA scientists have successfully test driven Japanese automaker Nissan's all-electric driver less car, which uses robotics software origin...
08 Jan, 2016, 06.32 PM IST
Potatoes to be grown on Earth under Martian conditionsThe experiment demonstrates that potato crops can be grown in the most inhospitable environments to save millions of lives.
22 Dec, 2015, 12.49 PM IST
World's first commercial quantum computer really works: GoogleThe computer is installed at NASA's Ames Research Centre and operates on data using a superconducting chip called a quantum annealer.
09 Dec, 2015, 04.25 PM IST
Pluto may have giant icy volcanoes: NASAThe two cryovolcano candidates are large features measuring tens of kilometres across and several kilometres high, NASA said.
10 Nov, 2015, 01.18 PM IST
NASA tests umbrella-like heat shield for future Mars missionsResearchers at NASA have successfully tested an umbrella-like heat shield that could protect future Mars exploration vehicles from extreme ...
07 Oct, 2015, 05.21 PM IST
Google, NASA to get new quantum computing systemsA Canadian company will provide them sophisticated quantum computing systems to advance artificial intelligence and machine learning.
29 Sep, 2015, 05.12 PM IST
Rising sea levels may threaten Nasa launch sitesRising sea levels caused by melting ice caps could threaten Nasa launch sites along US coastlines, the US space agency has warned.
06 Sep, 2015, 09.42 PM IST
Rising sea levels may threaten NASA launch sitesRising sea levels caused by melting ice caps could threaten NASA launch sites along US coastlines, the US space agency has warned.
06 Sep, 2015, 07.23 PM IST
NASA pictures a drone in every homeMove over smartphones, the latest craze in technology may be to own a drone of your own, according to an Indian-origin researcher at NASA.
03 Aug, 2015, 06.47 PM IST
NASA spacecraft discovers frozen plains in Pluto's 'heart'NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has discovered a vast, craterless plain in Pluto's 'heart' that appears to be no more than 100 million years...
20 Jul, 2015, 03.25 PM IST
Pluto has 11,000 feet high, young ice mountains: NASANew close-up images of a region near Pluto's equator show a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feetabove the surface of t...
16 Jul, 2015, 12.27 PM IST
New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back a large heart-shaped feature found on Pluto: NASAThe image was taken on July 7, when the spacecraft was just under 8 million kilometres from Pluto, and is the first to be received since th...
09 Jul, 2015, 03.46 PM IST
NASA's Kepler telescope finds eight new planetsEight new worlds beyond our solar system, including two of the most Earth-like planets discovered so far, boost the number of Kepler's conf...
07 Jan, 2015, 05.21 PM IST
- Bengal school student wins prestigious NASA prize
NASA invited papers in support of this project from students from Class-VII to class-XII all over the world for the contest, which is organ...
14 May, 2013, 10.23 PM IST
- NASA app on iPhone in offing
NASA is coming to the iPhone. The US space agency announced on Friday that it has created a free NASA application for the popular Apple sma...
24 Oct, 2009, 12.49 AM IST
- India signs agreement with US to carry out lunar exploration
India, along with seven other countries, has signed a landmark agreement with the United States to carry out lunar exploration.
27 Jul, 2008, 08.11 AM IST
- South Korea research institute forges ties with NASA
South Korea's top research organisation said it cemented Sunday a deal with NASA to work together to develop satellites and other space tec...
27 Jan, 2008, 11.58 AM IST