It’s a proud moment for India that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected and featured a Tamil Nadu boy’s painting in its 2019 New Year Calendar. N Thainmulkel, a 12-year-old student hailing from Dindigul district sent the agency a painting by him with ‘Space Food’ as the theme. His work was[Read More…]
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NASA’s InSight lander places first instrument on Mars
Los Angeles, NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, marking the first time a seismometer had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. New images from the lander showed the seismometer on the ground, its copper-coloured covering faintly illuminated in the Martian[Read More…]
NASA photographs Mars InSight lander from space
Washington, NASA has pinpointed the exact landing location of its newly launched InSight lander, using a powerful camera onboard another of the agency’s spacecraft, hovering around the Red Planet. On November 26, InSight landed within a 130 km ellipse at Elysium Planitia on Mars. However, there was no way to[Read More…]
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for Moon mission
Washington, NASA is set to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems, in a major step to land astronauts on the surface of the Moon. NASA is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to[Read More…]
NASA’s Juno mission to cross halfway to Jupiter next week
Washington: NASA’s Juno mission will next week mark the halfway point in data collection by completing the 16th science pass of Jupiter. Launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. “On December 21, at 11:49:48 a.m. EST the Juno spacecraft[Read More…]
NASA offers help to rescue ‘Iron Man’ from space
Marvel’s fans got disheartened after watching Tony Stark drifting in space in the Avengers: Endgame trailer, and it didn’t look like survival was likely, following which the fans have been pleading with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to bring their hero back to Earth. To everybody’s surprise, NASA has offered help even[Read More…]
First NASA probe to return asteroid sample reaches destination
Washington: The first spacecraft that NASA sent to collect sample from an asteroid has now arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft met Bennu on Monday after travelling through space for more than two years and over two billion kilometres, NASA[Read More…]
NASA’s MAVEN marks 4 years in Mars orbit with selfie
MAVEN’S selfie image looks at ultraviolet wavelengths of sunlight reflected off of components of the spacecraft. The image was obtained with the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument that normally looks at ultraviolet emissions from the Martian upper atmosphere, the US space agency said in a statement. “MAVEN has been a[Read More…]
Girl loses NASA internship after Twitter tiff with space council member Hickam
A woman identified as Naomi H was recently granted with NASA internship offer, however, got fired after her Twitter posts that used slang language and even abused Former NASA engineer Homer Hickam. The entire story started when Naomi took to the twitter to flaunt her NASA internship offer. Naomi however[Read More…]
Partial Solar Eclipse 11 Aug, 2018: Time, Myths, Guidelines, more
A partial solar eclipse, the third and final solar eclipse of the year, will take place on August 11, lasting for nearly 3 hours 30 minutes. The partial solar eclipse will be visible in the day starting at around 1:32 PM Indian Standard Time (IST), and will be visible till 5:02[Read More…]
Mars to look brighter, closest to the Earth in 15 years
Don’t forget to look up and catch a glimpse of a brighter Mars tonight as the Red Planet makes its closest approach to Earth in 15 years on Tuesday when the two planets will be 57.6 million kilometers apart. On July 27, Mars was at opposition, meaning that the Sun[Read More…]
NASA’s Hubble captured first image of surviving companion to supernova
Washington: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova, a compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in double-star systems, the US space agency said. Seventeen years ago, astronomers had witnessed a supernova go off 40 million light-years away in the galaxy called NGC[Read More…]
NASA’s next planet-hunting mission starts next week
Washington: NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or Tess aimed at detecting planets outside our solar system, is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on April 16. The mission is scheduled to launch no earlier around 4.02 a.m. on April 17 (India time) from Cape Canaveral Air[Read More…]
NASA tells Boeing to fly three people for six months to ISS
Washington: NASA has updated its commercial crew contract with Boeing to let the US-based aerospace company fly three people to the International Space Station (ISS) who will stay there for up to six months from an earlier planned two-week trip. The move is seen as to quickly end the dependency[Read More…]
NASA to build supersonic manned plane without sonic boom
Washington: US space agency NASA has started to create a supersonic manned aircraft that may cause no eardrum-battering sonic boom. It announced plans on Tuesday to grant a $247.5 million contract to Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace and defence group to design and build a new plane, Xinhua news agency[Read More…]
Google AI that helped NASA find exoplanets now open for all
San Francisco: A Google model based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) that helped NASA discover two exoplanets, is now available for researchers to process data from Kepler Space Telescope. The “TensorFlow” model decoded massive sets of data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to discover two exoplanets last[Read More…]
NASA wants you to send your name to the Sun
Washington: If you want your name to travel through the Sun’s atmosphere, braving brutal heat and radiation conditions, here comes your chance. NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names online to be placed on a microchip aboard its historic solar probe launching this summer. “This probe[Read More…]
Climate change driving dramatic rise in sea levels: NASA study
Washington: The sea level may rise twice as high by 2100 as previously estimated as a result of climate change, a new NASA study says. According to the findings detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, rise in sea level may increase by up to 65[Read More…]
3 astronauts back on Earth after months in space
Washington: Three astronauts have landed safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday after five-and-a-half-month of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit. The Soyuz spacecraft with NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 8.31 a.m. in Kazakhstan, NASA said.[Read More…]
Two astronauts to take long spacewalk on Friday
Washington: Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday for a planned six-and-a-half hour spacewalk, NASA has said. Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to begin the spacewalk at 7.10 a.m. to move components for the station’s[Read More…]
NASA looks at Artificial Intelligence to communicate with space
As a collection of space data increases, NASA is exploring the infusion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into space communications networks to meet demand and increase efficiency. Software-defined radios like cognitive radio use AI to employ underutilised portions of the electromagnetic spectrum without human intervention. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permits[Read More…]
NASA drone race: Human pilot emerges faster than AI
In a drone race that pitted a world-class pilot against Artificial Intelligence (AI), the human pilot emerged faster although the AI flew the drone more smoothly and consistently, NASA scientists have announced. The scientists raced drones controlled by AI against a professional human pilot on October 12 to put their[Read More…]
In Pics: NASA shares pictures of 9/11 attack captured from space
A series of images captured from the International Space Station was shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States. Notably, the International Space Station was flying over the attack site in New York City when the attack[Read More…]
9 year old applies for job at NASA, says he is ‘Guardian of the Galaxy’
NASA had posted a vacancy for the job of a planetary protection officer earlier this week. One year of experience as a top-civilian government employee and an advanced degree in science or mathematics were mentioned as the required qualifications. Jack Davis, a 9-year-old boy had none of these but chose[Read More…]
NASA is offering job to protect Earth from aliens
If you too have fancied Star Wars and the extraterrestrial, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has the perfect job for you. NASA is offering jobs to protect the Earth from aliens and will pay a six-figure salary to the person. The planetary protection officer would be responsible for implementing[Read More…]