NEW DELHI: Four astronauts from the US, Japan, and Russia, part of the NASA rotation mission, have successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS), after an approximately 15-hour journey, the US space agency said on Saturday.
NEW DELHI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NASA are set to launch their collaborative Earth observation satellite, NISAR, on Wednesday, at 5:40 p.m. IST from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
CHENNAI: The Earth Observation Satellite jointly developed by ISRO and NASA will be launched into space on July 30 aboard India’s GSLV-F16 rocket, ISRO Chairman Dr. V Narayanan announced today.
NEW DELHI: Two young Indians, from New Zealand, have made a giant leap to win an internship at US space agency NASA’s prestigious Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
NEW DELHI: After being deferred multiple times, NASA on Tuesday announced a new date for Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's historic flight to the International Space Station.
NEW DELHI: The launch of Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4), the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS), has been postponed once again on Friday, as NASA and its partners continue technical evaluations.
NEW YORK: The much-anticipated launch of the Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), featuring Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, has been postponed once again due to technical observations related to the Zvezda module of the ISS.
NEW YORK: Elon Musk's threat, which he later retracted, to cut off NASA's use of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft would be a huge blow to NASA, depriving the space agency of the only American vehicle capable of transporting astronauts to the International Space Station and dramatically changing how NASA would access the $100 billion orbiting laboratory, The Washington Post has reported.
NEW DELHI: US researchers have engineered a novel gene therapy to target the airway and lungs via a nasal spray.
NEW DELHI: SpaceX has postponed the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, which was scheduled to carry a crew of four astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and return the "stranded" NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.
NEW YORK: American company Intuitive Machines has successfully launched its second lunar mission to deliver science payloads of NASA to the Moon.
NEW YORK: NASA and SpaceX are accelerating the target launch and return dates for the upcoming crew rotation missions to and from the International Space Station (ISS), which will bring the agency's stranded astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back home.
NEW DELHI: NASA on Thursday said it is “working expeditiously” along with SpaceX to safely bring back Indian origin astronaut Sunita Williams and astronaut Butch Willmore, currently stuck in the International Space Station (ISS) for 238 days.
NEW DELHI: NASA on Friday confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe spacecraft is "safe" after becoming the first “human-made object” in history to fly dangerously close to the Sun.
NEW DELHI: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is expected to make its record flyby of the Sun -- just 6.1 million km -- on Christmas Eve.
LOS ANGELES: Reality star and socialite Paris Hilton is singing to two of her adoring fans, her kids. She recently took to her Instagram, and shared a sweet video in which she is seen holding a toy microphone and kneeling on the floor next to son Phoenix, and daughter, London.
LOS ANGELES: NASA engineers have completed investigations on the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter which was permanently grounded on the Red Planet since its last flight in January this year.
WASHINGTON: Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire who made the first private spacewalk in collaboration with Elon Musk's SpaceX, has been nominated by US President-elect Donald Trump to lead NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
MUMBAI: Honasa Consumer Ltd, the parent company of direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand Mamaearth, saw its stock plunged more than 20 per cent on Monday, after the company slipped into losses in the second quarter of the fiscal year (FY) 2024-25. From its record high, the stock has plunged almost 45 per cent to date.
NEW DELHI: US space agency NASA has partnered with Microsoft to develop an easier-to-access and user-friendly Artificial Intelligence-based chatbot that can help people decode scientific data about Earth.
SEOUL: South Korea's national space agency on Friday said it plans to send a solar coronagraph jointly developed with the US to the International Space Station (ISS) to study the sun's outer atmosphere, or corona, and solar wind.
SEOUL: South Korea's national space agency on Wednesday said it will join hands with the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct studies related to the Moon exploration Artemis programme.
NEW DELHI: In a first, scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) have developed a unique way through the nose to deliver tuberculosis (TB) medicines directly to the brain.
NEW DELHI: SpaceX on Monday launched NASA's Europa Clipper mission to explore the potential for life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
NEW DELHI: After being stalled due to hurricane Milton, NASA’s Europa Clipper mission aims to fly to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa in search of life on Monday, SpaceX has said.
WASHINGTON: SpaceX on Wednesday for the fourth time launched an international crew of four astronauts from NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) on a science expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).
NEW YORK: Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the centre of dense star clusters located throughout the universe.
WASHINGTON: NASA has sent a telescope in space that will measure the amount of light reflected off the Moon in order to improve the accuracy and consistency of measurements among Earth-observing satellites.
MOSCOW: The Russian Health Ministry has registered the nasal version of its Covid-19 jab, Sputnik V, which is said to be the world's first nasal vaccine against the virus.
WASHINGTON:It is commonly believed that water on Mars evaporated about 3 billion years ago.But two scientists studying data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found signs of liquid water on the Red Planet as recently as 2 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, meaning water flowed there about a billion years longer than previous estimates.
GURUGRAM: Digital-first consumer brands platform Honasa, that owns personal care brands like Mamaearth, on Saturday said it has raised $52 million led by Sequoia, becoming the first Indian unicorn of 2022.
HYDERABAD: Bharat Biotech is targeting to make one billion doses of its Covid-19 intranasal vaccine annually while it is on track to achieve one billion doses of Covaxin, India's first indigenous Covid vaccine.
WASHINGTON: Indian-origin Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel with the US Air Force and SpaceX's first flight surgeon, has been selected by NASA among the 10 new astronauts who could fly to the Moon someday.
NEW DELHI:The clear blue skies over the national capital may go dark soon with dust and smoke as the stubble burning season nears. The satellite images by US space agency NASA have shown that crop residue burning has already started in several fields in Haryana and Punjab, according to media reports.
WASHINGTON: US space agency NASA does not intend to rename its much-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, despite controversy over its name, according to media reports.
NASA has sent an inspiring letter to a nine-year-old who expressed interest in being a Planetary Protection Officer after the US space agency recently announced opening for the position
WASHINGTON: NASAs Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins has harvested two crops in space --‘Amara mustard, and a previously grown crop, ‘Extra Dwarf pak choi. They were grown for 64 days, the longest leafy greens have grown on station, the US space agency said.
WASHINGTON: In a historic feat for humankind, NASA on Monday successfully launched the first powered, controlled flight of its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on another planet.
HYDERABAD: Voting for Nagarjunasagar Assembly bypoll in Telangana began on Saturday morning amid tight security.Polling started at 7 am and will continue till 7 pm, with the last hour earmarked for covid patients.
CHENNAI: Senior Congress leader and former Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy on Friday said the AINRC, heading the NDA in Puducherry, would be dumped by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), its ally, once the Assembly polls on April 6 are over.
WASHINGTON: NASA will attempt to fly Ingenuity mini-helicopter, currently attached to the belly of Perseverance rover, on Mars on April 8, in first such attempt on another planet.
WASHINGTON:You can now have a feel of how it would be like if you get a chance to drive on Mars as NASA has released audio clips of its Perseverance rover crunching across the surface of the Red Planet, adding a whole new dimension to Mars exploration.
WASHINGTON: The Mars rover from NASA has sent first-ever audio readings like the mesmerising sound of Martian wind, captured from its SuperCam instrument, back home.
WASHINGTON: NASA has named the landing site of its Perseverance Mars rover after the science fiction author Octavia Butler.
WASHINGTON: Taking a step closer to realising its ambitious sample return programme after the touchdown of the Mars Perseverance rover, NASA has awarded a key contract to Northrop Grumman Systems of Elkton, Maryland.
WASHINGTON: In a wide-spread cyber-attack on US federal agencies and enterprises, hackers also broke into the networks of NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), The Washington Post has reported, saying the Biden administration is reportedly preparing sanctions against Russia as the cybercriminals are "likely Russian in origin".
WASHINGTON: NASA has released a new video from its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on February 18.
WASHINGTON: NASAs Perseverance rover has sent some stunning photos of the Red Planet, including a high-resolution colour selfie taken during its landing.
NEW DELHI: As the NASA successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet Mars' equator called Jezero, Google on Friday added a virtual fireworks on its page for a specific search.
NEW DELHI:As the world watched the new NASA rover touchdown on the Martian surface, it was Indian American Swati Mohan who virtually spearheaded the successful landing of Perseverance that will search for signs on life on the Red Planet.
WASHINGTON: The American space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has successfully landed its Perseverance rover in a deep crater near the planet Mars' equator called Jezero.
Washington: Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have confirmed that the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is healthy and on target to touch down in Jezero Crater at around 3.55 p.m. EST on February 18.
NEW DELHI: A meeting of the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is currently underway to discuss the permission sought by vaccine developer Bharat Biotech to conduct clinical trials of its intranasal vaccine for the coronavirus.
SAN FRANCISCO: In a historic feat challenging SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Virgin Orbit which is the sister company of billionaire Sir Richard Branson's space tourism outfit Virgin Galactic, on Monday successfully sent its LauncherOne rocket into space via air launch, and not through a traditional one from a launch pad on Earth.
NEW DELHI: Public health experts believe that intranasal vaccines for coronavirus, administered through nose rather than muscles, can be a potential gamechanger in Indias fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
NEW DELHI: Days after getting Drugs Controller General of India's (DCGI) nod for India's first indigenously-made coronavirus vaccine, Bharat Biotech has again knocked on the doors of the drug controller seeking permission to conduct clinical trials of their intranasal vaccine for the viral disease.
WASHINGTON:NASA has selected an initial team of 18 astronauts, including Indian-American astronaut Raja Chari, to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next lunar missions, including sending the first woman and next man to walk on the lunar surface in 2024.
WASHINGTON:A NASA resupply spacecraft named in honour of late astronaut Kalpana Chawla was on way to the International Space station (ISS) on Saturday with nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, technology demonstrations and commercial products, and a new space toilet is part of the cargo.
WASHINGTON: NASA and SpaceX now are targeting October 31 for the launch of the agency's SpaceX Crew-1 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station.
HYDERABAD: Leading vaccine maker Bharat Biotech on Wednesday announced a licensing agreement with Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for a novel chimp-adenovirus, single dose intranasal vaccine for Covid-19.
WASHINGTON: The largest planet in our solar system may not be as dry as earlier shown by a NASA probe, according to the first science results revealed by the US space agency's Juno mission on the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere.
WASHINGTON:After grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu's surface, the US space agency has finally selected a sample collection site on asteroid Bennu.
WASHINGTON: Engineers have finally assembled NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble observatory.
WASHINGTON: After grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu's surface, NASA, the US space agency, has finally selected four potential sites for its spacecraft to "tag" its cosmic dance partner.
WASHINGTON: Returning astronauts to the moon in 2024 could cost about $30 billion, or roughly the same price tag as the Apollo 11 spaceflight when factoring in inflation, NASA has said.
NASA has invited citizen scientists to help them track mosquitos known to carry and spread diseases like Zika, West Nile Virus and malaria to create new forecast models that can predict the spread of these diseases.