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$InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the \inner space\ of Mars. (Photo: AP)$ Science

NASA launches InSight spacecraft to Mars to dig down deep

InSight will dig deeper into Mars than ever before nearly 16 feet, or 5 metres to take the planet's temperature.

6 May 2018 8:55 AM IST

In this image released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with NASAs InSight onboard awaits launch, Friday, May 4, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The rocket is set to launch early Saturday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

Spacecraft for detecting 'Marsquakes' set for rare California launch

The Mars InSight probe is due for liftoff on Saturday before dawn from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

5 May 2018 9:26 AM IST

This illustration made available by NASA on March 29, 2018 shows the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft flying over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance. The MarCOs will be the first CubeSats - a kind of modular, mini-satellite - flown into deep space. Theyre designed to fly along behind NASAs InSight lander on its cruise to Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA spacecraft will have company all the way to Mars

Atlas V rocket set to launch early morning from California with the Mars InSight lander.

5 May 2018 9:15 AM IST

The island was temporarily evacuated last September when the eruption cycle began.

Vanuatu plans to permanently evacuate entire volcanic island

Already hundreds of people have moved to temporary shelters on parts of the island that are not so affected by the ash.

4 May 2018 8:55 AM IST

The report found the splintered wreck was most likely sunk by an explosion. (Photo: AP)

2 Indian Ocean 19th century shipwrecks named by historians

The museum's examination of the images of the scattered remnants found it was possibly the brig W. Gordon or the barque...

4 May 2018 8:34 AM IST

In this April 23, 2018 photo made available by NASA, a crane is used to lift NASAs InSight Mars lander for installation atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight is scheduled for liftoff May 5, 2018. (Leif Heimbold/NASA via AP)

NASA sending robotic geologist to Mars to dig super deep

The Mars InSight spacecraft, set to launch this weekend, will also take the planet's pulse by making the first...

3 May 2018 3:19 PM IST

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

NASA's nuclear reactor could power crewed missions to Mars

NASA has successfully demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to...

3 May 2018 2:37 PM IST

Mars 2020 spacecraft heat shield damaged in test

Mars 2020 spacecraft heat shield damaged in test

The fracture occurred near the shield's outer edge and spans the circumference of the component, NASA said.

29 April 2018 10:21 AM IST

NASAs Mars rover

ExoMars Rover prepares for shake down ahead of Mars trip

If the 2020 mission goes to plan it would be Europe's first rover on Mars.

28 April 2018 9:21 AM IST

The Curiosity rover, seen here snapping a selfie in 2016, has turned its camera to the sky and taken some shots of fast-moving clouds in the Red Planets atmosphere (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Scientists shocked as NASA cuts only moon rover

It would have been the first US lunar lander since Apollo 17 in 1972.

28 April 2018 9:18 AM IST

The ExoMars Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ÂºN/165.9ÂºE) on 15 April 2018. Scientists combined three pictures taken by the Trace Gas Orbiters camera instrument, CaSSIS, from an altitude of 400 kilometers (249 miles). (Photo: AP)

European Space Agency releases 1st image from Mars orbiter

The European Space Agency has released its first image taken by a probe orbiting Mars, showing the ice-covered edge of a...

27 April 2018 5:03 PM IST

Europes Sentinel-3B Earth-observation satellite launches atop a Rockot rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia on April 25, 2018. (Photo: ESA)

Europe launches seventh Sentinel Earth observation satellite

It will join its twin Sentinel-3A, which has been in orbit since 2016, to collect data on sea surface temperature.

26 April 2018 2:28 PM IST