Axiom-4 Mission: Day-to-day update of what Shubhanshu Shukla “Shux” and crew did in spaceAxiom-4 Mission: Shubhanshu Shukla and crew are preparing to leave the International Space Station on July 14. They will return to Earth af...
14 Jul, 2025, 07.33 PM IST
Close shave for NASA's Lucy as spacecraft successfully fly past asteroid DonaldjohansonNASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a close flyby of asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson, located in the main asteroid belt betwe...
22 Apr, 2025, 01.21 AM IST
NASA mission reveals asteroid's unusual double moon, scientists baffledNASA sScientists suggest that the Dinkinesh asteroid fractured, causing pieces to separate and form a disk of material. And some of this ma...
02 Jun, 2024, 09.53 PM IST
Hubble captures a time-lapse movie of DART collision: NASAThe Hubble movie offers invaluable new clues into how the debris was dispersed into a complex pattern in the days following the impact, NAS...
04 Mar, 2023, 05.04 PM IST
NASA spacecraft DART is set to crash into asteroid. Here's why?NASA plans to strike a minor and harmless asteroid a million miles away. NASA’s spacecraft, named Dart, will zero in on the asteroid to cru...
23 Sep, 2022, 11.47 PM IST
NASA asteroid mission on hold due to late software deliveryThe Psyche mission to a strange metal asteroid of the same name was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency's Jet Prop...
25 Jun, 2022, 07.29 AM IST
Moon goes blood red this weekend: Parts of America will witness 2022's first total lunar eclipsePartial stages of the eclipse will be visible across Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
14 May, 2022, 09.40 AM IST
NASA spacecraft begins 2-year trip home with asteroid rubbleIt will be the biggest cosmic haul for the U.S. since the Apollo moon rocks. While NASA has returned comet dust and solar wind samples, thi...
11 May, 2021, 04.46 PM IST
NASA spacecraft touches asteroid for rare cosmic rubble grab, a first for US"I can't believe we actually pulled this off," said lead scientist Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. "The spacecraft did everyth...
21 Oct, 2020, 09.10 AM IST
- NASA aims to send spacecraft to giant 'metal' asteroid
New York, Jan 19 (IANS) NASA is preparing to send a spacecraft to a giant "metal" asteroid that may tell scientists the secret of how our s...
19 Jan, 2017, 02.55 PM IST
- NASA selects 2 missions to explore solar system's asteroids
Washington, Jan 5 (IANS) Aiming to find important clues to the earliest history of the solar system, NASA has announced two missions -- one...
05 Jan, 2017, 01.32 PM IST
NASA to launch two robotic probes to study early solar systemThe missions, known as Lucy and Psyche, were chosen from five finalists and will proceed to mission formulation, with the goal of launching...
05 Jan, 2017, 01.14 PM IST