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The 520-day record set by Scott Kelly, whose one-year space station mission ended in March. (Representational Image)

US astronauts defy technical glitch to complete 200th spacewalk

Fischer ended up sharing Whitson's spacesuit servicing system, causing both to burn through their battery power faster...

13 May 2017 9:00 PM IST

Peggy Whitson will be 56 when she rockets off the planet Thursday, and shell celebrate her 57th birthday in February on the International Space Station. (Photo:AP)

US spacewalkers overcome glitch on 200th station outing

Two US astronauts overcame an early equipment glitch to complete an abbreviated spacewalk outside the International...

13 May 2017 8:22 AM IST

American astronaut Jack Fischer pictured inside the International Space Station on May 12, 2017 (Photo: AFP)

'Awesomesauce,' proclaims US astronaut on historic spacewalk

NASA's bulky white spacesuits are aging, and the same models have been in use for four decades.

13 May 2017 7:46 AM IST

US Navy divers and other personnel practicing for recovery of Orion on its return from deep space missions, using a test version of the crew module (Photo: AFP)

NASA delays deep-space Orion test to 2019 due to costs

The first test flight of NASA's Orion capsule, designed to one day carry people to Mars, has been delayed until 2019

13 May 2017 7:37 AM IST

NASA scientists discover ancient microbes that can survive on a diet of sulfite, manganese and copper oxide in the Naica mine in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Historic 200th spacewalk starts late

The official start time was about two hours after it was supposed to begin, Nasa said.

13 May 2017 2:10 AM IST

Located 437 light-years away, HAT-P-26b orbits a star roughly twice as old as our Sun. The planet shows a primitive atmosphere

Nasa detects water on warm Neptune'

The analysis is one of the most detailed studies to date of a â€œwarm Neptune,â€or a planet that is Neptune-sized and...

13 May 2017 2:06 AM IST

The water bottle bus stop was conceptualized and constructed by Bamboo House India under their Recycle India initiative.

First of its kind! Bus stop made of recycled water bottles

This bus stop of Swaroopnagar colony has been built by using thousand recycled plastic bottles, bought from a scrap...

12 May 2017 6:51 PM IST

(Image: Buzz Aldrin/Facebook)

NASA must ditch ISS to get to Mars: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin

Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin is of the opinion that the International Space Station should be run by private firms too.

12 May 2017 12:28 PM IST

Scientists have sounded the alarm over the problems posed to space missions from orbital junk

The latest alien' signal has left astronomers confused

Fast radio bursts (FRB) 150215 were first detected in 2015 and researchers have studied it since then.

12 May 2017 10:01 AM IST

Although it is the size of Neptune, it is being referred as â€œwarm Neptuneâ€as it is much closer to its parent star. ((Photo: NASA)

Scientists discover new Neptune-like planet

Combining data from NASA's Hubble and Splitzer space telescopes revealed an exo-planet similar to the size of Neptune

12 May 2017 9:27 AM IST

A Long March 7 rocket just before blast off at Wenchang Space Launch Centre on April 20, 2017. Groups of volunteers will live in a sealed lab simulating a lunar-like environment as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon (Photo:AFP)

China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission

The volunteers will live in the sealed lab to simulate a long-term, self-contained space mission with no input from the...

12 May 2017 7:46 AM IST

CBI sources said three private medical colleges Chirayu Medical College, Peoples Medical College and LNCT Medical College in the state are under scanner for admitting majority of these students. (Representational image)

Scientists close to developing Zika vaccine

Microcephaly is a birth defect where a baby's head is smaller than expected when compared to their peers.

12 May 2017 7:06 AM IST