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Missions near the Moon will start when NASAs Orion spacecraft leaves Earth atop the worlds most powerful rocket, NASAs Space Launch System. (Photo: NASA)

What does a spacecraft need to survive deep space?

Orion has built-in technologies that enable the crew and spacecraft to explore far into the solar system.

5 Aug 2018 5:26 PM IST

The jet-powered Bluebird roared past 300 mph (482 kph) before it vaulted into the air, flipped and crashed into the lake, breaking in two and killing the 45-year-old Campbell. (Photo: AP)

Record-breaking Bluebird jet boat floats again after 51 years

Donald Campbell had set eight land and water speed records, when he attempted to break his own 276.3mph (445kph)...

5 Aug 2018 11:07 AM IST

That roasted the previous record, set in Death Valley in July 2017 when the average was 107.4 degrees (41.89 Celsius). (Photo: AP)

Death Valley sees hottest month, sets world record

The natural furnace of California's Death Valley was on full broil in July, tentatively setting a world record for...

4 Aug 2018 3:52 PM IST

Birds have several ways of acquiring life skills.(Photo:AP)

Birds learn another language' by eavesdropping on neighbours

For birds, understanding neighborhood gossip about an approaching hawk or brown snake can mean the difference between...

4 Aug 2018 1:11 PM IST

Astronauts, left to right, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Robert Behnken, Douglas Hurley, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Eric Boe, Josh Cassada and Sunita Williams give a thumbs up to the crowd after NASA announced them as astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Sunita Williams, 8 others to fly on Boeing, SpaceX spacecraft: NASA

The space agency announced that the nine astronauts will launch on the first crewed test flights and missions of new...

4 Aug 2018 8:15 AM IST

On its website, NASA explains that it does use the materials for wind experiments launched on sounding rockets to the upper atmosphere.

NASA reveals astronauts for first manned US space launches since 2011

The astronauts named on Friday will be carried aloft aboard spacecraft developed by entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX and...

4 Aug 2018 7:54 AM IST

Just 1 out of 200,000 diamonds are blue. (Photo: AP)

Extremely rare blue diamond could be Earth's biggest secret

It's clear that blue diamonds are formed at far greater depths than other diamonds, some deeper than 410 miles.

3 Aug 2018 10:43 AM IST

All the learning happened in a software simulation and was then transferred to the physical world with relative ease.

OpenAI's robot hand learns real world moves

Researchers at OpenAI had taught a robotic hand to rotate a lettered, multi-coloured block until a desired side of the...

31 July 2018 9:16 AM IST

It is called a blood moon as the moon gets a rusty orange or deep red colour when the sunlight is scattered through the Earths atmosphere.

Blood Moon dazzles, was longest lunar eclipse of 21st century

The next lunar eclipse of such a length is due in 2123.

28 July 2018 9:51 AM IST

A team of scientists at the European Southern Observatory started monitoring the central area of the Milky Way using its Very Large Telescope. (Photo: Pixabay)

Einstein's supermassive black hole theory confirmed by scientists

The black hole is 26,000 light years away from Earth and has a mass 4 million times that of the Sun.

27 July 2018 9:20 AM IST

Students with the telescopes.

Students have own telescopes to see blood moon

Equipment will be set up at school tonight to witness longest celestial event of its kind this century.

27 July 2018 5:57 AM IST

A rare celestial occurrence as a Super Blue Blood Moon is seen at Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica, Calf. The moon is putting on a rare cosmic show. Its the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse. NASA is calling it a lunar trifecta: the first super blue blood moon since 1982. That combination wont happen again until 2037.

Longest-ever lunar eclipse of the century

The total eclipse ends at 2:45 am, and the partial eclipse at 3:45 am.

27 July 2018 1:25 AM IST