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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc. (image:AP)Science
Elon Musk promises free rides through tunnel, but to where?

Elon Musk is promising the public “free rides” through the first high-speed passenger tunnel drilled beneath Los...

13 May 2018 1:15 PM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the Tess satellite lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The satellite known as Tess will survey almost the entire sky, staring at the brightest, closest stars in an effort to find any planets that might be encircling them. (Photo: AP)Science
SpaceX launches new rocket primed for future crewed missions

Minutes later, the rocket's main-stage booster flew itself back to Earth.

12 May 2018 9:19 AM IST

It will have a weight of about four pounds, and a fuselage the size of a softball.Science
Video | Believe it or not, NASA to fly a helicopter on Mars

The Helicopter will take flight in thin Martian atmosphere with twin counter-rotating blades

12 May 2018 9:14 AM IST

SpaceX is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year. (Photo: AFP)Science
SpaceX postpones its first commercial launch of updated Falcon 9...

The rocket's onboard computers halted the countdown about one minute before the Block-5 edition of the Falcon 9 was set...

11 May 2018 9:34 AM IST

In this photo, a new fissure erupts in Leilani Estates in Pahoa, Hawaii. Hawaiis erupting Kilauea volcano has destroyed homes and forced the evacuations of more than a thousand people. (U.S. Geological Survey via AP)Science
Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupts and destroys 26 homes

More than 1,700 residents who have been evacuated were allowed to briefly return to gather medicine, pets, and other...

7 May 2018 12:24 PM IST

InSight spacecraft launches onboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-V rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to study the \inner space\ of Mars. (Photo: AP)Science
NASA launches InSight spacecraft to Mars to dig down deep

InSight will dig deeper into Mars than ever before nearly 16 feet, or 5 metres to take the planet's temperature.

6 May 2018 8:55 AM IST

In this image released by NASA, a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas-V rocket with NASAs InSight onboard awaits launch, Friday, May 4, 2018, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The rocket is set to launch early Saturday. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)Science
Spacecraft for detecting 'Marsquakes' set for rare California launch

The Mars InSight probe is due for liftoff on Saturday before dawn from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

5 May 2018 9:26 AM IST

This illustration made available by NASA on March 29, 2018 shows the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft flying over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance. The MarCOs will be the first CubeSats - a kind of modular, mini-satellite - flown into deep space. Theyre designed to fly along behind NASAs InSight lander on its cruise to Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)Science
NASA spacecraft will have company all the way to Mars

Atlas V rocket set to launch early morning from California with the Mars InSight lander.

5 May 2018 9:15 AM IST

The island was temporarily evacuated last September when the eruption cycle began.Science
Vanuatu plans to permanently evacuate entire volcanic island

Already hundreds of people have moved to temporary shelters on parts of the island that are not so affected by the ash.

4 May 2018 8:55 AM IST

The report found the splintered wreck was most likely sunk by an explosion. (Photo: AP)Science
2 Indian Ocean 19th century shipwrecks named by historians

The museum's examination of the images of the scattered remnants found it was possibly the brig W. Gordon or the barque...

4 May 2018 8:34 AM IST

In this April 23, 2018 photo made available by NASA, a crane is used to lift NASAs InSight Mars lander for installation atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. InSight is scheduled for liftoff May 5, 2018. (Leif Heimbold/NASA via AP)Science
NASA sending robotic geologist to Mars to dig super deep

The Mars InSight spacecraft, set to launch this weekend, will also take the planet's pulse by making the first...

3 May 2018 3:19 PM IST

On its website, NASA explains that it does use the materials for wind experiments launched on sounding rockets to the upper atmosphere.Science
NASA's nuclear reactor could power crewed missions to Mars

NASA has successfully demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power system that could enable long-duration crewed missions to...

3 May 2018 2:37 PM IST

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