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After conquering dark side of the moon, China targets Mars in 2020: Report

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Updated on Jan 15, 2019 06:05 PM IST

On January 3, China’s robotic spacecraft Chang’e-4 landed on the far side of the moon, a first in the human history of space exploration. The China National Space Administration is working to send a probe to Mars.

The lunar lander of the Chang'e-4 probe is seen in a photo taken by the rover Yutu-2 on Jan. 11, 2019.(AP Photo)

Indo Asian News Service | ByIndo Asian News Service

After dark side of the moon, China to collect lunar samples this year

China's space agency says it worked with NASA to collect data from the far side of the moon. The state-run China Daily said this was the first such collaboration since an American law banned joint space projects with China that do not have prior congressional approval.

The rover Yutu-2 is seen in a photo taken by the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe on Jan. 11, 2019.(AP Photo)

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Updated on Jan 14, 2019 04:57 PM IST

Reuters | ByReuters

Earth, Moon captured in one frame by NASA spacecraft

NASA’s spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying asteroid Bennu from orbit.

The picture shows the asteroid Bennu, top right, about 43 kilometres from the spacecraft, and the Earth and moon, bottom left, more than 110 million kilometres away.(Twitter/@OSIRISREx)

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Updated on Jan 10, 2019 06:19 PM IST

Washington | ByIndo Asian News Service

Mysterious fast radio bursts discovered from deep space ‘could be aliens’

Some scientists also believe that the fast radio bursts emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away. However, the source of these signals, originating from far outside our Milky Way galaxy, are not well understood.

The discovery of the extragalactic signal is among the first, eagerly awaited results from the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a radio telescope inaugurated in 2017.(Photo: Twitter/@SKA_telescope)

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Updated on Jan 10, 2019 04:45 PM IST

Toronto | ByPress Trust of India

Centre looks to set up 20 cyber physical centres

India will begin research on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things and Quantum Computing under a national mission with a budget of ₹3,660 crore .

india news

Updated on Jan 06, 2019 09:32 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Jalandhar | ByAnonna Dutt

NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft zips past most distant world known to mankind

The spaceship was to collect 900 images over the course of a few seconds as it shaved by at a distance of about 2,000 miles (3,500 kilometers).

A NASA spacecraft on Tuesday flew past the most distant world ever studied by humankind, Ultima Thule, a frozen relic of the early solar system that could reveal how planets formed.(Twitter/NASA)

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Updated on Jan 02, 2019 01:32 AM IST

Tampa | ByAgence France-Presse

On New Year’s day, NASA aircraft zooms by most distant, icy world, Ultima Thule

The US space agency planned to ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark the spacecraft’s zoom past the mysterious object located about four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt.

NASA counted down Monday to a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.(Twitter/ NASA)

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Updated on Jan 01, 2019 11:11 AM IST

Tampa | ByAgence France-Presse

Moon probe tops agenda for Isro’s biggest year yet

The Chandrayaan-2 mission, which is estimated to cost ₹800 crore, will send a rover to the moon’s south pole that has never been explored before.

The Indian military communication satellite GSAT-7A is pictured next to the moon as it is launched into orbit on the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in Sriharikota in the state of Andhra Pradesh on December 19, 2018.(AFP Photo)

science

Updated on Jan 01, 2019 02:36 PM IST

ByAnonna Dutt

NASA spaceship to photograph most distant world explored yet on New Year’s Day

A camera on board the New Horizons spacecraft is currently zooming in on Ultima Thule, so scientists can get a better sense of its shape and configuration -- whether it is one object or several.

Artist’s illustration obtained from NASA shows the New Horizons spacecraft encountering 2014 MU69 – nicknamed ‘Ultima Thule’ – a Kuiper Belt object that orbits one billion miles beyond Pluto.(AFP)

science

Updated on Dec 29, 2018 09:38 AM IST

Agence France-Presse | ByAgence France-Presse

Evidence of water discovered in 17 asteroids

Recent studies have shown that other celestial bodies in our solar system have, or used to have, water in some form.

An artist's rendering shows an asteroid slowly disintegrating as it orbits a white dwarf star.(AP File Photo/Representative image)

science

Updated on Dec 19, 2018 03:47 PM IST

Tokyo | ByPress Trust of India

Sun’s behavior to change from 2020. This is how it will help space missions

According to scientists, predicting the solar cycle is important because the sun’s activity influences environmental conditions in the space. This adversely affects satellites and space-based technologies such as telecommunications and navigational networks.

Prediction of the upcoming solar cycle, also called sunspot cycle, will help in strategically plan missions to space and in the upkeep of space-based technologies.(Reuters File / Nasa / Representative Image)

science

Updated on Dec 07, 2018 09:21 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Mumbai | BySnehal Fernandes

Using NASA’s Kepler Space telescope, scientists discover over 100 new exoplanets

Scientists have discovered a cache over 100 new exoplanets using data from NASA’s Kepler Space telescope as well as ground-based observatories. The diverse planets are expected to play a large role in developing the research field of exoplanets and life in the universe.

Exoplanets, which revolve around stars other than the sun, have been actively researched in recent years.(Getty Images/Picture for representation)

world news

Updated on Dec 04, 2018 04:41 PM IST

Tokyo | ByPress Trust of India

3 astronauts set to launch to space station on Monday, says NASA

The three new space travellers -- Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Russian space agency Roscosmos - are preparing to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft at 5.31 pm from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.

Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for December 3 and will carry Expedition 58 prime crew members, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA, and Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) into orbit to begin their six and a half month mission on the International Space Station.(AP Photo)

world news

Published on Dec 02, 2018 01:17 PM IST

Washington | ByIndo Asian News Service

NASA’s InSight lands on Mars in unprecedented mission, sends first photo

After sailing 548 million km on a six-month voyage through deep space, the robotic lander InSight touched down on the dusty, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet.

People celebrate as the InSight lander touchdowns on Mars at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in Pasadena, Calif.(AP)

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Updated on Nov 27, 2018 01:59 AM IST

Cape Canerval | ByAssociated Press

NASA Mars InSight Live highlights: Spacecraft sends first picture from Mars surface

NASA’s Mars lander InSight touched down safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Monday to begin its two-year mission as the first spacecraft designed to explore the deep interior of another world.Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) near Los Angeles said the successful landing was confirmed by signals relayed to Earth from one of two miniature satellites that were launched along with InSight and flying past Mars when it arrived shortly before 3 p.m. EST (2000 GMT)Here are the highlights:

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Updated on Nov 27, 2018 05:52 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAgencies

NASA’s 2020 rover to look for signs of ancient life on Mars

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will not only seek signs of ancient habitable conditions -- and past microbial life -- but the rover also will collect rock and soil samples and store them in a cache on the planet’s surface

NASA has chosen Jezero Crater, a geologically rich terrain, as the landing site for its upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission, the US space agency said.(Twitter/NASA)

science

Published on Nov 20, 2018 01:38 PM IST

Washington | ByPress Trust of India

This is heavy: The kilogram, ‘a great work of peace’, is getting an update

The kilo is “a tribute to man’s ability to collaborate,” said Martin Milton, director of International Bureau of Weights and Measures. “It’s been called a great work of peace, actually, because it’s one of the areas where all of the states of the world come together with absolutely the same objective.”

The International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK) is pictured in Paris, France, in this undated photo obtained from social media on November 12.(REUTERS)

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Updated on Nov 13, 2018 05:59 PM IST

Sevres (France) | ByAssociated Press

Isro plans Venus mission for 2023, invites international payloads

Isro’s Venus mission will focus on studying the surface and the sub-surface of the planet, atmospheric chemistry, and the interactions with solar radiation or solar winds.

India will send 12 scientific payloads aboard the satellite for the Venus mission, including a thermal camera, mass spectrometer and cloud monitoring camera.(ISRO Photo)

india news

Updated on Nov 09, 2018 09:08 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAnonna Dutt

This NASA spacecraft has become the closest ever to Sun

“It’s been just 78 days since Parker Solar Probe launched, and we’ve now come closer to our star than any other spacecraft in history,” said Project Manager Andy Driesman.

The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun’s surface on October 29.(AFP file photo)

science

Updated on Oct 30, 2018 11:28 AM IST

Washington | ByIndo-Asian News Service

NASA names gamma constellations after The Hulk and Godzilla

The constellations, constructed with sources visible through its gamma-ray telescope, were devised to celebrate the completion of 10 years of operations of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

One of the new constellations has been named after The Incredible Hulk, as in the Avengers movie character is a the product of a gamma-ray experiment gone awry.

science

Updated on Oct 22, 2018 01:02 PM IST

Washington | ByPress Trust of India

Indian researchers develop skin gel that will protect farmers from pesticides

A team from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) have formulated/created and patented the gel

The gel, when applied on animal models, chemically deactivated or neutralised organophosphate-based pesticides on their skin and reduced the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE).(Getty Images/Representative image)

india news

Updated on Oct 19, 2018 09:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySnehal Fernandes, Mumbai

There is no God; no one directs our fate: Stephen Hawking in final book

Stephen Hawking, who is known for his work in cosmology and theoretical physics, was the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking speaks during the Opening Ceremony for the 2012 Paralympics in London, Aug. 29, 2012.(AP File Photo)

science

Published on Oct 17, 2018 07:02 PM IST

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India

Physicist Stephen Hawking’s final scientific paper released

The paper titled “Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair” was completed in the days before Stephen Hawking’s death in March.

Physicist Stephen Hawking sits on stage during an announcement of the Breakthrough Starshot initiative with investor Yuri Milner in New York on April 12, 2016.(REUTERS)

science

Updated on Oct 11, 2018 03:29 PM IST

London | ByIndo Asian News Service

What if medicines have no side effect?

According to Arun Shukla, associate professor, European Molecular Biology Organization young investigator and lead scientist on the project, about 40% of currently prescribed drugs target GPCRs which are responsible for transfer of information across the cell membrane.

science

Updated on Oct 10, 2018 10:23 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByJayashree Nandi

Discovery of pseudo-shock waves in sun a major breakthrough

The solar corona shapes the structure and dynamics of the heliosphere (a bubble-like region of space) within which all planets of our solar system reside. It constitutes an inter-planetary magnetic field and creates space weather in planetary atmospheres, including our own.

The sun’s image in extreme ultraviolet light from NASA-SDO (solar dynamics observatory) spacecraft.

science

Published on Oct 09, 2018 02:32 PM IST

Lucknow | ByBN Dwivedi

Frances H Arnold, George P Smith, Sir Gregory P Winter win 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

This year’s Chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded in one part to Frances H Arnold and the other half jointly to George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter.

Frances H Arnold, George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter were awarded the 9-million-kronor ($1.01 million) chemistry prize, the last of this year’s scientific Nobel Prizes.(AP File Photo)

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Updated on Oct 03, 2018 05:28 PM IST

Stockholm/London | ByReuters

Scientists finally decide on world’s ‘largest bird’. And it is extinct

For 60 million years the colossal, flightless elephant bird -- Aepyornis maximus -- stalked the savannah and rainforests of Madagascar until it was hunted to extinction around 1,000 years ago.

Aepyornis maximus weighs an estimated 860 kilogrammes -- about the same as a fully grown giraffe.(Picture courtesy: Wiki Commons)

science

Updated on Sep 26, 2018 03:58 PM IST

Paris | ByAgence France-Presse

Want to name the next Mars rover? Nasa is conducting a contest

The Mars 2020 rover mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars, including key questions about the potential for life on the Red Planet.

All proposals to hold a contest must be received by October 9, Nasa said.(AFP File Photo)

science

Published on Sep 22, 2018 01:57 PM IST

Washington | ByIndo Asian News Service

Yusaku Maezawa: Meet the Japanese billionaire who’ll fly around the moon

The SpaceX moon mission, set for takeoff in 2023, is just the latest exploit in Japanese tycoon Yusaku Maezawa’s colourful and ambitious career.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa reacts near a Falcon 9 rocket during the announcement by Elon Musk to be the first private passenger who will fly around the Moon aboard the SpaceX BFR launch vehicle.(AFP File Photo)

world news

Updated on Sep 18, 2018 06:22 PM IST

Tokyo | ByAssociated Press

Who will be the first passenger on commercial flight around moon? SpaceX to reveal soon

The identity of the traveller will be revealed at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, during an event Monday evening.

This artist's illustration courtesy of SpaceX obtained September 17, 2018, shows the SpaceX BFR launch vehicle passenger spacecraft, enabling access for everyday people who dream of travelling to space.(AFP Photo)

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Updated on Sep 17, 2018 11:54 PM IST

Hawthorne, California | ByAssociated Press

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On January 3, China’s robotic spacecraft Chang’e-4 landed on the far side of the moon, a first in the human history of space exploration. The China National Space Administration is working to send a probe to Mars.

China's space agency says it worked with NASA to collect data from the far side of the moon. The state-run China Daily said this was the first such collaboration since an American law banned joint space projects with China that do not have prior congressional approval.

NASA’s spacecraft will spend almost a year surveying asteroid Bennu from orbit.

Some scientists also believe that the fast radio bursts emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away. However, the source of these signals, originating from far outside our Milky Way galaxy, are not well understood.

India will begin research on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things and Quantum Computing under a national mission with a budget of ₹3,660 crore .

The spaceship was to collect 900 images over the course of a few seconds as it shaved by at a distance of about 2,000 miles (3,500 kilometers).

The US space agency planned to ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark the spacecraft’s zoom past the mysterious object located about four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt.

The Chandrayaan-2 mission, which is estimated to cost ₹800 crore, will send a rover to the moon’s south pole that has never been explored before.

A camera on board the New Horizons spacecraft is currently zooming in on Ultima Thule, so scientists can get a better sense of its shape and configuration -- whether it is one object or several.

Recent studies have shown that other celestial bodies in our solar system have, or used to have, water in some form.

According to scientists, predicting the solar cycle is important because the sun’s activity influences environmental conditions in the space. This adversely affects satellites and space-based technologies such as telecommunications and navigational networks.

Scientists have discovered a cache over 100 new exoplanets using data from NASA’s Kepler Space telescope as well as ground-based observatories. The diverse planets are expected to play a large role in developing the research field of exoplanets and life in the universe.

The three new space travellers -- Anne McClain of NASA, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of Russian space agency Roscosmos - are preparing to launch aboard the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft at 5.31 pm from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.

After sailing 548 million km on a six-month voyage through deep space, the robotic lander InSight touched down on the dusty, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet.

NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will not only seek signs of ancient habitable conditions -- and past microbial life -- but the rover also will collect rock and soil samples and store them in a cache on the planet’s surface

Isro’s Venus mission will focus on studying the surface and the sub-surface of the planet, atmospheric chemistry, and the interactions with solar radiation or solar winds.

“It’s been just 78 days since Parker Solar Probe launched, and we’ve now come closer to our star than any other spacecraft in history,” said Project Manager Andy Driesman.

The constellations, constructed with sources visible through its gamma-ray telescope, were devised to celebrate the completion of 10 years of operations of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

A team from the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) have formulated/created and patented the gel

Stephen Hawking, who is known for his work in cosmology and theoretical physics, was the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

The paper titled “Black Hole Entropy and Soft Hair” was completed in the days before Stephen Hawking’s death in March.

According to Arun Shukla, associate professor, European Molecular Biology Organization young investigator and lead scientist on the project, about 40% of currently prescribed drugs target GPCRs which are responsible for transfer of information across the cell membrane.

The solar corona shapes the structure and dynamics of the heliosphere (a bubble-like region of space) within which all planets of our solar system reside. It constitutes an inter-planetary magnetic field and creates space weather in planetary atmospheres, including our own.

This year’s Chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded in one part to Frances H Arnold and the other half jointly to George P Smith and Sir Gregory P Winter.

For 60 million years the colossal, flightless elephant bird -- Aepyornis maximus -- stalked the savannah and rainforests of Madagascar until it was hunted to extinction around 1,000 years ago.

The Mars 2020 rover mission addresses high-priority science goals for Mars, including key questions about the potential for life on the Red Planet.

The SpaceX moon mission, set for takeoff in 2023, is just the latest exploit in Japanese tycoon Yusaku Maezawa’s colourful and ambitious career.

The identity of the traveller will be revealed at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, during an event Monday evening.

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