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A new study argues that meteorites that landed in volcanic pools of water 4 billion years ago were key to jump-starting life on Earth. (Photo: Pixabay )

NASA hunting for mysterious meteorite from the Pacific

The extraction will be carried by an exploration vehicle, making it the first instance of meteorite extraction from the...

2 July 2018 2:20 PM IST

The Met Office is also warning of potentially hazardous driving conditions in regions hit by the predicted storms. (Representative image/Source: Pixabay)

UK forecaster issues 1st ever thunderstorm alert

The official forecasters say torrential rain, hail and lightning are possible Sunday.

2 July 2018 1:48 PM IST

The Crew Interactive Mobile Companion, or CIMON, is an English-speaking droid roughly the size of a basketball that will help German astronaut Alexander Gerst conduct experiments on the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)

HAL-like robot to help astronaut in space odyssey

CIMON, is an english-speaking droid roughly the size of a basketball that will conduct experiments on the International...

1 July 2018 11:36 AM IST

The 10-meter (33-foot) pencil rocket lifted only slightly from its launch pad before dropping to the ground, disappearing in a fireball. (AP Photo)

Japanese pencil rocket blows up after liftoff

The MOMO-2 rocket, developed by Interstellar Technologies, was supposed to reach as high as 100 kilometres into space.

1 July 2018 8:18 AM IST

UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (extreme L) at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

UAE: Your brains can teach our scientists

The possibility of UAE investing in this project, however, did not come up for discussions, Prof Rudra Pratap added.

1 July 2018 6:38 AM IST

The space station and its six inhabitants were sailing 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the South Pacific when the Falcon 9 took off. (Photo AP)

SpaceX launches AI robot, strong coffee for station crew

A former NASA astronaut helped arrange the java delivery for the space station's Serena Aunon-Chancellor.

30 Jun 2018 9:43 AM IST

A team led by Frank Postberg and Nozair Khawaja they had identified fragments of large organic molecules in ice grains that were ejected from geysers through cracks in the moons icy exterior.

Saturn moon could support life: New Cassini findings reveal

The Cassini spacecraft first flew close to the ice-covered moon in 2005 as part of a mission to gather data on Saturn.

29 Jun 2018 8:35 AM IST

Cimon has Gersts face and voice imprinted in its memory. (Photo: AP)

A robot with true artificial intelligence is about to invade space

A German robot named Cimon is a friendly guy and he has this hard power-off button.

29 Jun 2018 7:45 AM IST

- This artists rendering provided by the European Southern Observatory shows the interstellar object named â€œOumuamuaâ€ which was discovered on Oct. 19, 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. In the Wednesday, June 27, 2018 edition of the journal Nature, a European-led team makes the case it is a comet, not an asteroid. (Photo: AP)

Comet or asteroid? Scientists ID interstellar visitor

Telescopes first spotted the mysterious red-tinged object last October as it zipped through the inner solar system.

28 Jun 2018 8:52 AM IST

This 2015 artists rendering provided by Northrop Grumman via NASA shows the James Webb Space Telescope. On Wednesday, June 27, 2018, NASA announced that the next-generation telescope will now fly no earlier than 2021 and its lifetime cost is now expected to reach nearly $10 billion. (Northrop Grumman/NASA via AP)

More delay, a cost for NASA's next-generation space telescope

For the third time in less than a year, the space agency announced a lengthy postponement for the James Webb Space...

28 Jun 2018 8:23 AM IST

The mission includes an orbiter, lander and a rover.

Chandrayaan-2: India to hunt for priceless Helium-3

Chandrayaan-2 is expected to be launched in October this year.

28 Jun 2018 5:59 AM IST

The mission is to land the rover on the south side of Moon which has never been accessible till now. (Image: Pixabay)

Indian Moon Mission: ISRO to fetch trillion-dollar-worth isotope from...

India's aeronautical body ISRO will be sending a rover to the moon to research the prospects of mining helium-3 and...

27 Jun 2018 6:09 PM IST