Why humans become taller in space, Sunita Williams answersAstronaut Sunita Williams, currently on an eight-month mission aboard the ISS with Butch Wilmore, shares intriguing insights into how space...
07 Sep, 2024, 02.32 PM IST
Private US moon lander still working after breaking leg and falling, but not for longThe Odysseus mission, the first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon, faced challenges such as a broken leg, limited power, and comm...
29 Feb, 2024, 08.25 AM IST
Private US spacecraft topples to its side during lunar landing, some antennas covered up, the company saysA private U.S. lunar lander, Odysseus, tipped over during touchdown near the moon's south pole, ending up on its side and hampering communi...
24 Feb, 2024, 11.56 PM IST
First US lunar lander in more than 50 years launched but develops problem on way to moonThe Pittsburgh company's lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance's Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Flori...
09 Jan, 2024, 10.24 AM IST
China plans to send two rockets for crewed moon landingBoth the rockets will enter the moon's orbit and after a successful docking the astronauts will enter the lunar lander to descend onto the ...
12 Jul, 2023, 11.35 AM IST
NASA's next-generation Artemis rocket lifts off on test flight to moonNASA expected 15,000 to jam the launch site, with thousands more lining the beaches and roads outside the gates, to witness NASA's long-awa...
16 Nov, 2022, 07.20 PM IST
NASA ready for second attempt at Artemis lunar launch todayThe previous launch bid on Monday ended with technical problems forcing a halt to the countdown and postponement of the uncrewed flight. Te...
03 Sep, 2022, 11.25 AM IST
NASA delays debut Artemis flight of new moon rocket after engine cooling issueThe space agency declined to set a precise time frame for retrying a launch of the mission, dubbed Artemis I. But a second attempt was stil...
30 Aug, 2022, 11.08 AM IST
NASA's next-generation megarocket SLS-Orion set for debut test launch to moonThe maiden voyage of the 32-story-tall, two-stage Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and its Orion crew capsule, a mission dubbed Artemis I, ...
29 Aug, 2022, 11.07 AM IST
NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian airThe instrument works through electrolysis, which uses extreme heat to separate oxygen atoms from molecules of carbon dioxide, which account...
22 Apr, 2021, 08.48 AM IST
- US-German Earth gravity measuring satellites end mission
Washington, Oct 28 (IANS) Facing a battery issue after more than 15 years in orbit, the US-German GRACE -- Gravity Recovery and Climate Exp...
28 Oct, 2017, 02.38 PM IST
- NASA plans to save Earth by knocking asteroid off its orbit
Washington, July 9 (IANS) Aiming to show how to protect Earth from a future killer asteroid strike, NASA plans to crash a refrigerator-size...
09 Jul, 2017, 06.17 PM IST
Venus mission: ISRO invites proposals for space experimentsThough no time-frame has been set by the ISRO for the ambitious mission, indications are that the Indian Venusian orbiter mission may not h...
24 Apr, 2017, 07.19 PM IST
NASA's Scott Kelly's 340-day mission was the longest single U.S. spaceflightKelly is still nursing sore feet, stiff legs even after nearly three months back on Earth. Upon landing in Kazakhstan, he felt unwell.
28 May, 2016, 10.41 AM IST
NASA's most powerful rocket, SLS, to send 13 mini-satellites into spaceThe first flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) will carry 13 CubeSats to test innovative ideas along with an uncrewed Orion spacecraft.
03 Feb, 2016, 02.57 PM IST
A third of world's biggest groundwater basins are overstressedIndus Basin of NW India & Pakistan is the second-most overstressed groundwater basin in the world and is suffering rapid depletion from hum...
17 Jun, 2015, 05.04 PM IST
North Pole shifts due to global warmingThe North Pole has shifted east because of ice sheet loss caused by rising temperatures, a new study published in Geophysical Research Lett...
15 May, 2013, 11.01 PM IST