Tag: Nasa

Washington: The US space agency NASA is planning to send a mobile robot to the South Pole of the moon in 2022 to get a close-up view on the water ice in the region and sample it for the first time. NASA announced on Friday that the golf-cart-size robot called Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, […]

Angul: Perseverance and strong willpower can overcome all adversities and a 14-year-old boy from Odisha is a perfect example. When Subhranshu Nayak, a Class IX student of Saraswati Sishu Vidya Mandir, Gandhi Marg in Angul district, developed a drone, little did he know that it will get selected in Ames Space Settlement contest organised by […]

Washington: As NASA plans to return humans to the Moon in 2024, scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth as part of the the US space agency’s final mission of the Apollo programme. The sample, opened on Tuesday, was collected on the Moon by Apollo 17 astronauts Gene […]

Washington: Planet Mercury will pass directly between Earth and the Sun on November 11, staging a rare celestial show. During the transit, Mercury will look like a tiny black dot gliding across the Sun’s face, NASA said in a blog this week, adding that the event will be widely visible from most of Earth, including […]

Washington: NASA has showcased its first all-electric aircraft, the X-57 Maxwell which is at least a year away from its first flight test. Unveiled on Friday, the Maxwell is NASA’s first crewed X-plane in two decades. It is adapted from Italian Tecnam P2006T aircraft. NASA took delivery of its first all-electric experimental aircraft from Empirical […]

Washington: NASA has detected a massive thermonuclear explosion coming from outer space, caused by a massive thermonuclear flash on the surface of a pulsar — the crushed remains of a star that long ago exploded as a supernova. The explosion released as much energy in 20 seconds as the Sun does in nearly 10 days. […]

New York: The landing site of the Mars 2020 rover that NASA plans to launch next year could preserve signs of ancient life on the Red Planet, says a new study. The rover’s Jezero crater landing site is home to deposits of hydrated silica, a mineral that just happens to be particularly good at preserving […]

Chennai: India will launch its cartography satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into sun synchronous orbit on November 25, the Indian space agency said on Monday. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), its rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-XL variant (PSLV-XL) will put into orbit Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites from the US on […]

Washington: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the USA recently displayed a new underwater robot for a mission that could one day search for life in ocean worlds beyond Earth. The robot, known as Buyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration (BRUIE), is being developed for underwater exploration in extra-terrestrial, icy waters by engineers at […]

New York: NASA has found the crash site and debris of India’s Chandrayaan-2 Vikram moon lander following a tip from an Indian space enthusiast who examined pictures of the area of the moon taken by a US orbiting camera. The site was located by Shanmuga Subramanian, who on his own scoured the pictures taken by […]

New York: A space enthusiast from Chennai who worked independently, found debris from the Vikram moon lander that scientists had been looking for and helped guide them to the spot where it had crashed. Shanmuga Subramanian, who made the discovery, told IANS on Tuesday: “It was something challenging as even NASA can’t find out so […]

Washington: Using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, researchers have created the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars. The new map of Mars winds helps scientists to better understand the workings of the Martian climate, giving them a more accurate picture of its ancient past and its ongoing evolution. “The observed […]

Chennai: The year 2019 was a year of several new beginnings for India’s space sector that is now on Mission 2.0 mode. The year also saw the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scoring a couple of half centuries, like putting into orbit 50 foreign satellites and also sending up its 50th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle […]

New Delhi: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientist, marine biologist and physiologist Jessica Meir took to Twitter to share the breathtaking view of the annual solar eclipse from the International Space Station. She wrote: “Here’s what today’s annular solar #eclipse (when the Moon is in line in between Earth and the Sun) looked like […]

Washington: NASA has lost contact with a satellite designed to study planets outside our solar system. Mission operators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement that the last communication with the Asteria (Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics) was in December and they will attempt to contact it till […]