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A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all. (Photo: AP)

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window

Within hours of landing, Musk had fired at least seven people on the program's senior management team at the Redmond.

2 Nov 2018 2:32 PM IST

So far, fewer than 3,500 complex life species, or only about 0.2 percent, have had their genomes sequenced. (Photo: Pixabay)

Scientists launch plan to map genes of all complex life on earth

They described the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) as the next moonshot for biology after the Human Genome Project.

2 Nov 2018 1:45 PM IST

The earliest-known bird, Archaeopteryx, lived about 150 million years ago in Germany. (Photo: American Museum of Natural History)

Some dinosaurs had exquisite eggs with colours, spots, speckles

Egg colour provided an evolutionary advantage to dinosaurs that had exposed nests for their eggs.

2 Nov 2018 12:50 PM IST

A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut survived an aborted liftoff after a Soyuz rocket bound for the ISS failed in mid-air.

Russia plans first manned space mission since rocket failure

A Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut were forced to abort their mission on Oct. 11 and perform an emergency landing.

1 Nov 2018 8:49 AM IST

The technology to fuse prostheses to the body has changed little for centuries. (Photo: Pixabay)

Click-on bionic arm could help amputees do the simple things

The procedure, known as osseointegration' (OI), involved implanting a metal rod into the bone of his residual limb.

1 Nov 2018 8:42 AM IST

A Russian Soyuz-2 booster rocket takes off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia. (Photo: AP)

Russian Soyuz rocket failure caused by faulty sensor

Russian news agencies citing an official confirmed the same.

1 Nov 2018 8:23 AM IST

Electric car maker Teslas CEO Elon Musk gives the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window

Musk had fired at least seven members of the program's senior management team at the Redmond.

31 Oct 2018 4:41 PM IST

The pieces - a basalt fragment, similar to most of the Earths volcanic rock, and bits of surface debris known as regolith - are being sold by an unidentified private American collector who purchased them in 1993. (Photo: Sothbebys)

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach USD 1 million at NY auction

Last year Sotheby's sold a zippered bag stamped with the words Lunar Sample Return laced with moon dust.

31 Oct 2018 2:48 PM IST

Other documents, an invitation for a reception for Time Travellers as well as a motorised wheelchair Hawking used, are also being sold in the Oct. 31 - Nov. 8 online auction. (Photo: Hawking.org.uk)

Stephen Hawking's thesis, wheelchair heading for auction

Also up for sale is a copy of Hawking's best-selling book A Brief History of Time signed with his thumb print.

31 Oct 2018 2:14 PM IST

The telescope laid bare the diversity of planets that reside in our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA retires its planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope

Currently orbiting the sun 94 million miles (156 million km) from Earth, the spacecraft will drift further from our...

31 Oct 2018 10:24 AM IST

A Russian Soyuz-2 booster rocket takes off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia. (Photo: AP)

Europe backs own space launchers amid growing competition

The move is a response to the US government's decision to award lucrative launch contracts to private American space...

30 Oct 2018 11:42 AM IST

Launched in August, Parker is on track to set another record late Monday night. It will surpass Helios-2â€²s speed record of 153,454 miles per hour. (Photo: AP)

NASA spacecraft sets record for closest approach to sun

Parker will make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next seven years, ultimately coming within just 3.8 million...

30 Oct 2018 9:43 AM IST