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NASA Seeks US Partners to Develop Reusable Systems for Moon Mission

Indo-Asian News Service | Friday December 14, 2018

NASA is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to the surface in 2028.

After 41 Years, NASA Spacecraft Escapes Sun's Bubble, Enters Interstellar

Science | Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post | Friday December 14, 2018

Ever since it left Earth 41 years ago, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has sailed across the solar system on a stream of energetic particles from the sun.

NASA's InSight Mars Lander Sends Back First Selfie on Mars

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday December 12, 2018

On December 6, the InSight lander used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images.

NASA's InSight Sends Back First Selfie On Mars

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday December 12, 2018

Barely two weeks after touching down on Mars, NASA's InSight lander has taken its first selfie using the spacecraft's robotic arm, the US space agency has said.

NASA Scientists Discover More Glaciers in East Antarctica Are Losing Ice

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 11, 2018

While East Antarctica has the potential to reshape coastlines around the world through sea level rise, scientists have long considered it more stable than West Antarctica.

NASA Probe Finds Water On Asteroid Bennu

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 11, 2018

NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has found water locked inside the asteroid Bennu.

NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Travels Beyond Heliosphere in Longest Running Mission

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 11, 2018

Voyager 2 was launched in 1977, just before Voyager 1, and both have travelled well beyond their original destinations: Jupiter and Saturn, stretching their four-year lifespan into 41 years.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Finds Signs of Water on Asteroid Bennu

Reuters | Tuesday December 11, 2018

OSIRIS-REx, which flew last week within a scant 19km of the asteroid Bennu some 2.25 million kilometres from Earth, found traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules.

Voyager 2 Is Now Also In Interstellar Space Behind Its Voyager 1 Twin

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 11, 2018

Voyager 2 is now some 18 billion kilometers away compared to Voyager 1 at 21.6 billion kilometers, both offering a measure of how far the empire of the Sun stretches.

6-Hour Long Spacewalk For Russian Cosmonauts To Check On ISS-Docked Soyuz

World News | Indo-Asian News Service | Monday December 10, 2018

Two Russian cosmonauts will go for a six-hour-long spacewalk tomorrow to check a hole in the external hull of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA's InSight Lander 'Hears' Wind on Mars

Agence France-Presse | Monday December 10, 2018

Humans can now hear the haunting, low rumble of wind on Mars for the first time, after NASA's InSight lander captured vibrations from the breeze on the Red Planet.

"Like A Waving Flag": NASA Craft 'Hears' Wind On Mars For The First Time

Science | Agence France-Presse | Saturday December 8, 2018

Humans can now hear the haunting, low rumble of wind on Mars for the first time, after NASA's InSight lander captured vibrations from the breeze on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Friday.

NASA Set To Grab A Piece Of Asteroid That May Hit Earth 200 Years Later

Science | Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post | Wednesday December 5, 2018

For the past two years, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has sailed across the solar system by the light of the stars. Like ancient mariners and the Apollo astronauts, it needed the constancy of the constellations to navigate the dark unknown. All that changed Monday, when the NASA probe finally reached its target, an Empire State Building-sized asteroid ...

100 New Exoplanets Discovered Just 3 Months With NASA's Kepler Telescope

Science | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 4, 2018

An international team of astronomers have discovered more than 100 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) -- that revolve around stars other than the Sun -- in only three months, using a combination of ground- and space-based telescopes.

Astronomers Discover Over 100 New Exoplanets

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday December 4, 2018

The team made the discovery in just three months.