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‘Deal With It Jupiter’: NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Giant Planet’s Orbit
NASA's unmanned Juno spacecraft on Monday began orbiting Jupiter, a key triumph for a $ billion mission that aims to uncover the origins of the biggest planet in the solar…
Maxwell: A battery-powered airplane from NASA coming soon
NASA is developing a new battery-powered experimental airplane that has been nicknamed ‘Maxwell’. The new airplane will be quieter, more efficient and will reduce flight times thus benefitting the travellers.…
NASA spots methane leak from space
In a first, an instrument onboard an orbiting spacecraft has measured the methane emissions from a specific leaking facility on Earth’s surface. The observation — by the Hyperion spectrometer on…
NASA’s new laser technology could send humans to Mars in flat 3 days
New York: For humans to arrive at the Red Planet with the available technology, it will approximately take five months to touch down on the Martian surface. NASA researchers are…
NASA probe captures Pluto’s blue atmosphere in infrared
Washington: NASA has released an image capturing the first look at Pluto's blue atmosphere in infrared wavelengths which was taken by its New Horizons spacecraft. The photo captured in July…
A chance to see Five Planets gather in the sky after 11 years
The five planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are aligning simultaneously in a lineup together offering the people of Earth to observe a rare celestial gathering. Summing up as…
Landslip on Mars captured by NASA
An image of a relatively fresh landslip on Mars is released by NASA, which shows boulder-covered landslip along a canyon wall. Landslips occur when steep slopes fall, sending a mass…
NASA warns of growing air pollution in India and China
WASHINGTON -- India, China and the Middle East, with their fast-growing economies and expanding industry, have seen growing air pollution, according to NASA scientists who tracked the trends over the…
Nasa satellite phones home to confirm orbit
Washington: The first of Nasa’s new miniature satellites that was launched last week has radioed back to confirm that it is in orbit and operational. Nasa and The Aerospace Corporation,…
2 Indian-American Teens Among 10 Finalists of NASA’s 3-D Space Contest
Washington: Two Indian-American teenagers figured among 10 finalists of NASA's national 3-D Space Container Challenge which asked students to design models of containers that could help astronauts keep things in…
NASA releases spectacular images of India-Pakinstan border taken from ISS
American Space Agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Agency) has once again released some mind blowing images. This time images of India-Pakistan border captured from ISS (International Space Station) at…
NASA seeks student ideas to land massive cargo on Mars
WASHINGTON, SEPT 21: NASA is seeking bright ideas from university and college students for landing cargo on Mars using inflatable spacecraft heat shields or hypersonic inflatable aerodynamic decelerator (HIAD) technology.…