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Artemis II is a triumph, but NASA’s ‘most ambitious’ mission carrying possible evidences of life may never returnNASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission plans to bring Martian rocks and soil to Earth. This project seeks to understand if Mars was, i...
NASA Is Sending a Flying Robot to Another World: Here’s Why Wheels Are No Longer EnoughRobotic rovers have long explored planets. Now, flying robots are set to become the next frontier. The Dragonfly mission to Titan will use ...
NASA’s Dragonfly Will Land on Titan… Then Do Something No Spacecraft Has Done BeforeNASA's Dragonfly mission will revolutionize planetary exploration by deploying a rotorcraft lander to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. This fl...
Scientists Observing a Nearby Star Is Giving Astronomers New CluesScientists have found a protective bubble around a young star, HD 61005. This astrosphere, similar to our Sun's heliosphere, shields planet...
Europa Clipper’s First Data: What We’re Learning About Jupiter’s Ocean MoonNASA's Europa Clipper is beginning its comprehensive study of Jupiter's ocean moon, with initial data confirming the presence of a global s...
Mars Gullies Formed by Sand and CO2, Not WaterMars' strange gullies are not carved by water as once thought. New research shows sand and seasonal carbon dioxide ice are the main sculpto...
The 1977 Wow! Signal: Space’s most famous mystery could finally be explainedAstronomers continue to track puzzling cosmic signals, from the 1977 Wow! Signal to new phenomena like ASKAP J1832–0911 and FRB 20220610A. ...
Wow! signal found four times stronger, but aliens may not be behind it; hydrogen clouds likelyA new study revisits the enigmatic "Wow!" signal, detected in 1977, suggesting it was far more intense than initially estimated. Professor ...
Is there a Saturn-sized world hiding beside our nearest star system? James Webb spots a new world next doorAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope believe they may have found a Saturn-sized planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A, one of the cl...
NASA to send $5 billion Europa Clipper in October to find life under Jupiter moon’s ice and it's facing a 3-week challengeNASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, set to launch on October 10, will embark on a $5 billion mission to explore Jupiter’s moon, Europa. With ...
Psyche: NASA spacecraft embarks on mysterious mission to find rare metal asteroidNASA's Psyche spacecraft has begun its six-year journey to a metal-covered asteroid. This will be the first exploration of a metal world, w...
Researchers discover how impact causes a new planet to 'break up'Every solid body in the solar system is constantly pummeled by impacts, both large and small. Even on Earth, every single spot has been aff...
Possibility of Perseverance finding evidence of life on Mars, challenging and exciting: ScientistsGoutam Chattopadhyay, Senior Research Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, US, said the Jezero crater was chosen a...
Euphoria grips US scientists ahead of India's Chandrayaan-2 landingChandrayaan-2's landing module 'Vikram' will begin its final descent to pull off a historic soft landing on the lunar surface on Saturday.
- Astronomers detect strange 'radio signals' coming from dwarf star
London, July 17 (IANS) To the delight of those trying to find life beyond our solar system, a team of astronomers has claimed to have picke...
- Astronomers find hottest giant planet
Washington, June 6 (IANS) Astronomers have discovered the hottest planet ever known, with a dayside temperature of more than 4,300 degrees ...
- Ancient Mars lake had microbe-friendly conditions: Study
New York, June 2 (IANS) An ancient Martian lake had conditions suitable for different types of microbes to survive, according to a new rese...
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...
- Saturn's moon Enceladus harbours chemical energy for life: NASA
Washington, April 14 (IANS) Saturn's icy moon Enceladus has a form of chemical energy that life can feed on, researchers with NASAs Cassini...
Nitrogen gas may point to alien life on exoplanetsIf nitrogen is found to be abundant in a planet's atmosphere, that world almost certainly has the right pressure to keep liquid water stabl...