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The current norm for receiving a womb transplant is that the organ would come from a live family member willing to donate it. (Representational Photo: Pixabay)

World's first baby born via womb transplant from dead donor

The case involved connecting veins from the donor uterus with the recipient's veins as well as linking arteries and...

5 Dec 2018 2:45 PM IST

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.

SpaceX launches biggest US 'rideshare' mission with 64 satellites

The Falcon 9 blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 10:34 a.m.

4 Dec 2018 11:13 AM IST

The US plan, the paper said, involves privatising the ISS, a low-orbit space station piloted by the US space agency NASA and developed jointly with its Russian counterpart.

Russia launches first manned voyage to ISS since rocket accident

The Soyuz lifted off at 1131 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

4 Dec 2018 11:11 AM IST

JAXA, in a statement, claimed that a kilometer-wide diamond-shaped space rock is rich in water and organic materials. (Photo: ANI)

NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat

Scientists estimate there is a one-in-2,700 chance of the asteroid slamming into Earth 166 years from now.

4 Dec 2018 11:09 AM IST

U.S. astronaut Anne McClain, centre, Russian cosmonaut Å¾leg Kononenko, bottom, and CSA astronaut David Saint Jacques during the rocket launch. (Photo: AP)

Astronauts blast off to International Space Station in Russian-made...

Capsule successfully launched into orbit, says Roscomos.

4 Dec 2018 1:14 AM IST

US National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins called Hes experiment â€œa misadventure of a major sortâ€. (Photo: AP)

Could anyone have stopped gene-edited babies experiment?

The young scientist, He Jiankui, saw the power of this tool, called CRISPR, to transform genes.

3 Dec 2018 10:54 AM IST

The European-Russian ExoMars also will sniff out possible past life. (Photo: AP)

Planet Earth working on 3 Mars landers to follow InSight

NASA's InSight spacecraft touched down on the sweeping, red equatorial plains Monday, less than 400 miles from...

3 Dec 2018 9:44 AM IST

InSight was engineered to operate on a surface with an inclination up to 15 degrees. (Representational image)

NASA's Martian quake sensor InSight lands at slight angle

The $993 million lander, a lava plain for a two-year mission aimed at better understanding how Earth's neighboring...

2 Dec 2018 1:36 PM 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)

Elon Musk won't be seen smoking pot in public again, says NASA

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that Musk is committed to safety as anybody.

1 Dec 2018 1:19 PM IST

This illustration made available by NASA in October 2016 shows an illustration of NASAs InSight lander about to land on the surface of Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA's Martian quake sensor InSight lands at slight angle

The vehicle sits slightly tilted (about 4 degrees) in a shallow dust- and sand-filled impact crater.

1 Dec 2018 11:41 AM IST

NASA officials said the research will help get astronauts back to the moon more quickly. (Pavel Golovkin, ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Next US moon landing will be by private companies, not NASA

The goal is to get small science and technology experiments to the surface of the moon as soon as possible.

1 Dec 2018 10:50 AM IST

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today launched Indias best-ever high-resolution earth imaging satellite, HysIS. (Photo: ANI | Twitter)

India's Earth observation satellite among 31 sent into space

The rocket launched from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh carried the Hyper-Spectral Imaging Satellite with...

30 Nov 2018 8:01 PM IST