Moscow, May 14
Three astronauts left the International Space Station late yesterday as departing commander Chris Hadfield shot to internet fame with his space interpretation of a David Bowie classic. H...
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Washington, May 13
Toxic dust on Mars may severely hamper the planned human settlement missions on the red planet as it is dangerous to human health, experts have warned.
Speaking at the “Humans 2 Mars Summ...
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Washington, May 11
Two astronauts, Chris Cassidy and Tom Mashburn, aboard the International Space Station have started preparing for a spacewalk to fix a leak discovered in the spaceship’s cooling system, NASA said...
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Moscow, May 10
Astronauts might have to step outside the International Space Station at the weekend to repair a leaking cooling system on the Earth-orbiting spacecraft, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported tod...
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London, May 9
The European Space Agency is set to launch a new innovative Earth explorer satellite in 2020 to map and monitor the global forests – our planet’s most important natural resources.
ESA’s E...
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Washington, May 7
A 5.6-km high Martian mound that scientists suspect preserves evidence of a massive lake might actually have formed as a result of the Red Planet’s famously dusty atmosphere, according to a new an...
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Washington, May 2
Researchers have examined a meteorite that formed on Mars more than a billion years ago in an effort to determine if conditions were ever favourable for life to sustain on the red planet.
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London, May 1
Astronomers trying to understand why Saturn appears ‘young’ – brighter than expected for a planet of its age – have found that gas generated deep within keeps it looking young and hot.
As...
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Washington, May 14
Astronomers, for the first-time, have discovered an exoplanet using a new method that relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity.
“Einstein’s planet,” formally known as Kepler-76b,...
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London, May 13
The maths underpinning Darwin’s theory of natural selection could explain how the universe may be ‘designed’ to make black holes.
New Oxford University research builds on the ‘cosmologica...
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Washington, May 12
An emergency leak repair at the International Space Station (ISS) may take weeks or even months for NASA to confirm that Saturday’s spacewalk fixed the problem, NASA officials said. In t...
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Washington, May 10
NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars, which is searching for signs of life on the red planet, has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
The rover will set course to the drill...
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Washington, May 10
Water on Earth and the Moon may have originated from the same source – primitive meteorites, scientists say.
Researchers used a multi-collector ion micro-probe to study hydrogen-deuterium...
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London, May 8
The European Space agency is set to launch a new innovative Earth explorer satellite in 2020 to map and monitor the global forests - our planet’s most important natural resources.ESA’s Eart...
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Washington, May 5
NASA’s Curiosity rover is back in business after a week-long communication gap caused by solar interference.
The rover had been on its own since early April, when Mars slipped behind the...
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Washington, May 2
Want to be a part of space exploration history? NASA is inviting public to submit their names, short poems and personal messages on-line for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that...
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Washington, May 1
The cost of a ride to the International Space Station just shot up like a rocket. NASA will pay $ 70.7 million to Russia for each astronaut Moscow’s space agency ferries into orbit in 20...
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