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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…
India’s very own GPS is ready
ISRO's PSLV-C33, carrying India's seventh navigation satellite IRNSS-1G, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at Thursday. The satellite was successfully placed in sub-Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. The…
ICMR, Sun Pharma to work on new drug development
NEW DELHI: The Indian Council of Medical Research will collaborate with pharmaceutical company Sun PharmaBSE % on the development of drugs and other treatment strategies that affect the country at…
ISRO’s path-breaking gel to be used on earth now
Scientists at ce Vikram Sarabhai SpaCentre (VSSC) have developed a specialised blue gel that primarily helps in insulation and heat exchange from outside extreme temperature. Speaking to dna, Dr K…
Development Of Zika Virus Vaccine Underway In India: WHO
United Nations: India is among five countries where projects are underway to develop vaccines to fight the Zika virus currently circulating in 38 countries. The World Health Organization's Director-General Margaret…
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…
Paper and Pencil to generate electricity
GENEVA: A small device made from household materials such as paper, pencil and a teflon tape can generate enough electricity to operate a remote control. A team from EPFL (Ecole…
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…
France to partner Isro in Mars mission
France will partner India in its next Mars mission, which the Indian Space Research Organisation plans to launch in 2018. French space agency, CNES on Monday signed a letter of…
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…