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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the Dragon spacecraft onboard, is seen at Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on June 3, 2017 (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX blasts off cargo using recycled spaceship

The refurbished Dragon cargo capsule soared into space aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 5:07 pm (2107 GMT) from Cape...

5 Jun 2017 7:53 AM IST

It will place the 3.2 tonne GSAT-19 satellite into the GTO orbit.

ISRO's heaviest rocket to make its maiden flight today

Heaviest rocket to test Isro's indigenous rocket making skills.

5 Jun 2017 6:06 AM IST

This evenly layered rock imaged in 2014 by the Mastcam on NASAs Curiosity Mars rover shows a pattern typical of a lake-floor sedimentary deposit near where flowing water entered a lake. Shallow and deep parts of an ancient Martian lake left different clues in mudstone formed from lakebed deposits. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

Rover findings indicate stratified lake on ancient Mars

A long-lasting lake on ancient Mars provided stable environmental conditions that differed significantly from 1 part of...

4 Jun 2017 9:32 AM IST

The drug, ONX-0801, is described as the biggest breakthrough in the past 10 years after it shrunk tumours in seven of 15 test patients to take part in the worlds first clinical trial.

Ovarian cancer cure holds promise

Drug shrinks tumours without side effects.

4 Jun 2017 3:37 AM IST

Isros communication satellite GSAT-9 on-board GSLV-F09 lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

Nellore: GSLV-Mk III launch on Monday

The launch is scheduled for June 5, Monday at 5.28 pm, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, in Nellore...

4 Jun 2017 1:37 AM IST

Researchers found that 43 per cent of deceased Apollo astronauts died from a cardiovascular problem. (Photo: Pixabay)

Space capsule with 2 astronauts returns to Earth

Both were extracted from the capsule, which came to rest on its side, within 15 minutes and appeared to be in good...

3 Jun 2017 8:36 PM IST

The biggest known structures in the universe are called galaxy clusters which are formed by thousands of galaxies like our milky way.

Chinese space telescope to observe Milky Way pulsars

To date, scientists have discovered over 2,000 pulsars.

3 Jun 2017 2:59 PM IST

A long coast line, with over 3,200 fishing villages, Indias fishing industry is equally vulnerable to climate change issues.

Indian fishermen try new nets for healthier oceans

No one in 180 villages of Sindhudurg district expected to have problems fishing, after centuries of their families...

3 Jun 2017 1:12 PM IST

The world was a different place when Thomas Pesquet arrived on the International Space Station (ISS) on November 20 for a six-month mission. (Photo: AFP)

Russian, French astronauts return from space station stint

Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and Thomas Pesquet, with the European Space Agency left the station at 6:47 a.m. EDT.

3 Jun 2017 7:54 AM IST

India on Friday successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile, which can carry a 500 kg to 1,000 kg warhead, in Chandipur near Balasore on Friday.

Prithvi-II successfully test-fired from Odisha

The indigenously developed Prithvi-II has a strike range of 350 km and is capable of carrying 500 kg to 1,000 kg of...

3 Jun 2017 6:50 AM IST

(Representational image/NASA)

NASA set to launch first-ever mission to neutron-stars

The same platform will also carry out the world's first demonstration of X-ray navigation in space.

2 Jun 2017 9:05 PM IST

Over time, energized particles in the solar wind stripped off Mars atmosphere, leaving a thin and still-shrinking envelope of gases around the planet (Photo: NASA)

Ancient lake on Mars harboured diverse microbial life: study

Researchers found that the lake in Mars' Gale Crater was stratified.

2 Jun 2017 6:31 PM IST