NASA retires planet hunter Kepler as space telescope runs out of fuel a decade after launch

Launched in March 2009, the unmanned telescope helped NASA discover more than 2,600 planets, some of which may hold life.

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· Oct 31, 2018 · 03:39 pm

Parker Solar Probe is now closer to the Sun than any man-made object has ever been: NASA

The spacecraft, launched on August 12, is on an unprecedented mission to explore the sun’s atmosphere.

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· Oct 30, 2018 · 09:07 pm

Pakistan to send astronaut to space in 2022 with China’s help, says minister

India is also set to send three astronauts to space that year.

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· Oct 26, 2018 · 10:25 am

Rocket science: A scientist explains Europe Space Agency’s landmark mission to Mercury

The spacecraft took off from Kourou, French Guyana, on October 20.

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· Oct 22, 2018 · 11:30 pm

NASA names its new gamma-ray constellations after the Hulk, Godzilla and Doctor Who

The agency’s Fermi Large Area Telescope scans the sky and compiles a list of gamma ray sources in the observable universe.

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· Oct 22, 2018 · 03:23 pm

Two astronauts make emergency landing after Russian rocket malfunctions during lift-off

Nick Hague and Alexey Ovchinin were forced to return to Earth after the rocket developed a problem in its booster.

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· Oct 11, 2018 · 03:25 pm

Japanese rovers send back images and video from asteroid Ryugu

On September 21, unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa 2 lowered the two rovers on the ragged surface of the asteroid, where they will remain till 2020.

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· Sep 28, 2018 · 07:07 pm

NASA’s telescope discovers two exoplanets five months after launch

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovered a ‘super-earth’ planet 60 light-years away and a ‘hot-earth’ planet 49 light-years away.

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· Sep 21, 2018 · 01:51 pm

Russia says hole in its Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft could be ‘deliberate’, begins inquiry

Dmitry Rogozin, CEO of Roscosmos space corporation, said investigators have ruled out the possibility of meteorite impact.

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· Sep 04, 2018 · 08:16 pm

NASA scientists find signs of water in the depths of a centuries-old storm on Jupiter

The findings showed that Jupiter may have two to nine times more oxygen than the Sun, the space agency said.

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· Aug 30, 2018 · 01:48 pm

NASA says its instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan-I has discovered ice water on the moon

The space agency said that most of the ice water on the moon lies in the shadows of craters, on the poles.

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· Aug 21, 2018 · 01:02 pm

India will launch a manned mission to space by 2022, announces Narendra Modi

The prime minister, who addressed the nation from Delhi’s Red Fort on the occasion of Independence Day, also hailed the contribution of Indian scientists.

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· Aug 15, 2018 · 09:14 am