New Delhi: For space watchers, Mars is like a second home. Astronomers have been studying the red planet for centuries and a mysterious haze high above Mars has left scientists scratching their heads.Two strange, cloud-like
Washington: A White House proposal by US President Barack Obama to increase spending for NASA has been welcomed by the US space agency that will boost its chances to reach Mars and other deep space
Washington: The US space agency has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new software that will enable scientists to work on Mars virtually using a wearable technology called Microsoft HoloLens.Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion
London: It turns out the Beagle has landed after all—but it never called home. The gone-but-not-forgotten spacecraft Beagle-2 went AWOL on Christmas Day, 2003, when it was supposed to land on Mars and start transmitting
Washington: The US space agency has developed a robot that is enabling researchers to put together a 3D map of a fissure - a crack that erupts magma - that is now inactive on Hawaii's
Pasadena, California: NASA's Opportunity rover is soaking in the view from its perch atop a Martian hill as engineers continue to fix a problem with its computer memory.The aging rover beamed new images to Earth
London: A British-led group is planning to grow lettuce on the Red Planet for future dwellers, media reports said.The plan has been proposed by a group of students at Southampton University to send a greenhouse
Washington: Apart from Orion's test flight towards Mars, cutting-edge scientific discoveries while studying the Earth and space and preparing for the next generation of air travel were some of the highlights for US space agency
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will test-fly its heaviest rocket GSLV-Mk III today at 9:30am from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.This rocket is conceived to make India completely self reliant in launching heavier
Madrid: The Curiosity rover has detected methane fluctuations in the atmosphere of Mars, a situation that opens up new avenues of investigation for scientists to determine the source producing the gas.Most of the methane in
Washington: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered evidence of the existence of a huge lake - once brimming with water and may be life - in the Gale Crater at Mount Sharp.The discovery, led by
Washington: The US space agency marked a major milestone on its mission to Mars as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to space Friday - travelling farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has
Washington: In a tribute to NASA's first successful mission to Mars 50 years ago, the space funding corporation Uwingu sent nearly 90,000 personal messages by radio into space.The Mariner 4 mission was successfully launched on
New York: The US space agency has directed its Mars rover Curiosity to probe mysterious rocks on Red Planet.The rover is currently investigating an outcrop called Pahrump Hills at its destination mountain "Mount Sharp".“We see
Washington: Calling for a new agenda in a novel joint editorial, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama today pledged themselves as global partners to enhancing homeland security by sharing intelligence through counter-terrorism
Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala government has announced post-doctoral fellowships in space technology to mark the success of India's Mars Orbiter Mission.The ‘Mangalyaan fellowships' would be instituted through the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment
Chennai: India's Mars Orbiter spacecraft has sent five pictures of the red planet's surface, said a senior official of the Indian space agency."The Mars Orbiter has started sending pictures. We have received five pictures and
Bangalore: Five scientific instruments onboard the Indian spacecraft will explore Mars during the next six months in search of life-sustaining elements on the Red Planet."Though our spacecraft will take 77 hours or 3.2 earth days
Bangalore: India today successfully placed its Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) in the Red Planet's orbit. Following is the chronology of events that traces the journey of Mangalyaan which lasted over 300 days:November 5, 2013: ISRO's
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi congratulated the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the scientific community for the successful insertion of Mangalayan into the orbit of planet Mars. It is the courage, passion and
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