Curiosity makes maiden move on Mars
August 23rd, 2012 - 12:03 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Aug 23 (IANS) Mars rover Curiosity has made its first move on the Red Planet, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said.Curiosity's maiden drive combined forward, turn and reverse ... Read more...
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NASA’s Spitzer detects light of alien ‘Super-Earth’
May 9th, 2012 - 5:24 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, May 9 (IANS) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time."Spitzer has amazed us yet again," said ... Read more...
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NASA invites 150 Twitter followers to Endeavour launch
April 26th, 2011 - 7:02 pm ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- NASA has invited 150 of its followers on the social networking website Twitter to a behind-the-scenes perspective from the press site at the agency's Kennedy Space Center ... Read more...
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Herschel reveals how much dark matter it takes to form new galaxy
February 17th, 2011 - 2:06 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 17 (ANI): The Herschel Space Observatory has measured how much dark matter is required in order to form a new galaxy."If you start with too little dark matter, then a ... Read more...
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‘Starquakes’ discovered by NASA spacecraft to revolutionize stellar study
October 27th, 2010 - 5:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 27 (ANI): NASA's Keplar spacecraft has discovered stellar oscillations, or 'starquakes,' that could provide new insights about the size, age and evolution of stars.Analysis of stellar oscillations is similar to ... Read more...
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Hubble astronomers discover an overheated early universe
October 8th, 2010 - 4:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 8 (ANI): Scientists discovered have that quasars -- the brilliant core of active galaxies -- emitted massive blasts of radiation in the early Universe, essentially delaying the growth of ... Read more...
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NASA Gears Up For Solar Probe Plus To Unravel The Mysteries Of Sun
September 7th, 2010 - 7:04 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Sep 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) NASA is gearing up to unravel the unknown mysteries of the sun with a new venture that has been titled Solar Probe Plus. The project which ... Read more...
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NASA discovers first planetary system with two planets transiting same star
August 27th, 2010 - 2:33 am ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star.The transit signatures of ... Read more...
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NASA’s Spitzer sees the cosmos through ‘warm’ infrared eyes
August 6th, 2009 - 2:39 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 6 (ANI): NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.The infrared telescope ran out of coolant May 15, ... Read more...
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NASA releases new extensive digital topographic map of Earth
June 30th, 2009 - 1:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 30 (ANI): NASA, along with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, known as METI, have released a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet ... Read more...
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Salmonella from space providing clues to making food poisoning vaccine
April 16th, 2009 - 12:08 pm ICT by ANI
Australia, Apr 16 (ANI): Analysing a batch of bacteria brought back by the shuttle Discovery crew last month, scientists could soon develop a vaccine against food poisoning from salmonella bacteria.The researchers conducted ... Read more...
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NASA probe to plunge into the Sun to unravel its mysteries
June 17th, 2008 - 11:48 am ICT by ANI
Washington, June 17 (ANI): NASA has started work on a mission called Solar Probe Plus that will plunge deeply into the suns atmosphere, to shed new light on the giant stars ... Read more...
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NASA spacecrafts flyby of Suns North Pole to unravel solar activity mysteries
January 15th, 2008 - 4:52 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): Ulysses spacecraft - a joint mission of NASA and the European Space Agency, is making a rare flyby of the Suns North Pole, from where it would be ... Read more...
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NASA images shed light on origin of solar winds
December 7th, 2007 - 3:14 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Dec 7 (ANI): New images from NASA funded telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed light about the suns magnetic field and the origin of solar winds, which disrupts power grids, ... Read more...
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