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NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter captures Martian sunset
Washington: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter captured a shot of a sunset on the Red Planet, during its 45th flight. The little chopper’s high-resolution colour camera captured the Sun on February 22, Space.com…
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Biden proposes $27.2 bn for NASA to boost Moon, Mars programmes
Washington: US President Joe Biden has proposed a $27.2 billion budget for NASA in 2024, which is about $1.8 billion more than the agency received this year. The new budget will allow…
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NISAR main teri galiyon pe ai vatan…: NASA-ISRO joint Satellite Project in final stages
The headline of this wonderfully written promising story is taken from the first line of the famous poem of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the internationally acclaimed Urdu poet Today is the birth anniversary…
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Asteroid Ryugu is organic-rich, sample reveals
Washington: Asteroid Ryugu has a rich complement of organic molecules, according to a NASA and international team’s initial analysis of a sample from the asteroid’s surface delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2…
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NASA’s Webb telescope reveals network of gas, dust in nearby galaxies
San Francisco: Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths. According to NASA,…
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Explained: Sun did not break off its chunk, just a normal solar activity
Washington: The Sun did not shed a chunk of it as being reported and what was spotted was a normal “solar prominence” activity on its surface. A solar prominence (also known as…
- Middle East
NASA satellites are helping Turkey, Syria earthquake response
Washington: After the massive earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and western Syria on February 6 and killed thousands, NASA on Saturday said it is working to share its aerial views and data…
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Scientists shocked after huge piece of Sun breaks off
The Sun’s North Pole was surrounded by a tornado-like whirl when a large chunk of its surface broke off. Even though researchers are working to understand how it happened, the video of…
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NASA to launch Mars science mission on Bezos-run Blue Origin’s rocket
Washington: The US space agency has announced a science mission to Mars aboard Jeff Bezos-run Blue Origin’s New Glenn space launch vehicle NASA awarded ‘Mars Science Mission Launch’ to Blue Origin’s New…
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NASA reveals 2 instruments to measure earth-directed energy from sun
San Francisco: NASA has revealed two small instruments that will play a crucial role in powering big scientific insights by measuring and studying the Earth’s directed energy from the Sun. The space…
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ISRO-NASA built satellite ready to be shipped to India for launch
Washington: An earth-observation satellite jointly developed by NASA and ISRO that will help study Earth’s land and ice surfaces in greater detail is all set to be shipped to India later this…
- Technology
NASA’s mega Moon rocket now ready for crewed mission
Washington: NASA’s mega moon rocket has cleared all performance tests and engineers are now taking a closer look at the Space Launch System (SLS) performance to prepare for the first crewed Artemis…
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Earth to have close encounter with small asteroid this week
San Francisco: An asteroid, about the size of a box truck, will have a very close encounter with the Earth this week, NASA Systems has predicted. The asteroid, called Asteroid 2023, is…
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US to test nuclear engine for future Mars missions
Los Angeles: NASA and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, the key steps for sending the first…
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UAE announces date for astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi 6-month space mission
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) on Thursday announced the launch date of the first Arab long-duration astronaut mission. UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi’s launch…
