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GPS is best-known for its widespread civilian applications, from navigation to time-stamping bank transactions. (Photo: AP)

Next-generation of GPS satellites are headed to space

But some of their most highly touted features will not be fully available until 2022 or later.

17 Dec 2018 4:46 PM IST

The majority of the rulebook for the Paris agreement has been created. (Photo: AP)

Talks adopt rulebook' to put Paris climate deal into action

Negotiators delayed other key decisions until next year a move that frustrated environmentalists and countries.

17 Dec 2018 1:52 PM IST

The tiny satellites are called CubeSats , and will collect data on phenomena such as radiation belts or on autonomous movement in space for a group of universities and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

New Zealand's Rocket Lab shoots 13 tiny cube satellites into orbit

Sunday's launch was the second commercial launch for the New Zealand firm.

17 Dec 2018 8:54 AM IST

The Cygnus cargo ship operated by the US company Orbital ATK left the International Space Station, packed with 1.5 tons of garbage, at 8:22 am (1322 GMT) on Monday.

Russian cosmonauts take samples on 6th hour of spacewalk to crack...

Roscosmos has ruled out a manufacturing defect causing the 2 mm-wide hole found in August.

14 Dec 2018 1:33 PM IST

Virgins twin-fuselage carrier airplane holding the SpaceShipTwo passenger spacecraft took off at 7:11 a.m.

Virgin Galactic completes crewed space test, more flights soon

The successful test flight presages a new era of civilian space travel that could kick off as soon as next year.

14 Dec 2018 12:04 PM IST

Composite image made available by NASA on Wednesday shows the InSight lander on the surface of Mars. (Photo: AP)

InSight lander takes first selfie on Mars: NASA

Camera on robotic arm used to take selfie a mosaic made up of 11 images.

13 Dec 2018 2:13 AM IST

A Russian cosmonaut and a US astronaut survived an aborted liftoff after a Soyuz rocket bound for the ISS failed in mid-air.

Russian cosmonauts take samples on sixth hour of spacewalk to crack...

Officials said the crew - three US astronauts, two Russian cosmonauts and one German - were never in danger.

12 Dec 2018 3:45 PM IST

FILE - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong, right, trudges across the surface of the moon leaving behind footprints. Moon dust collected by Armstrong during the first lunar landing is being sold at a New York auction. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million. Theyre just some of the items linked to space travel that Sothebys is auctioning off to mark the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing on July 20. (AP Photo, File)

Curry signals willingness to meet with NASA over Moon landing doubts

Curry is willing to take NASA up on its offer to tour its lunar lab in Houston.

12 Dec 2018 3:43 PM IST

Its trailing twin Voyager 1, which reached interstellar space in 2012 and is now 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. (Photo: NASA)

NASA's Voyager 2 becomes 2nd craft in interstellar space

The spacecraft is now beyond the outer boundary of the heliosphere, some 11 billion miles from earth.

11 Dec 2018 1:26 PM IST

In this image taken from NASA on August 24, 2018, the asteroid Bennu is seen from an image obtained from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraf. (Image: AFP)

NASA's first look: Tiny asteroid is studded with boulders

Osiris-Rex hooked up last week with the asteroid Bennu, which is only about three blocks wide and weighs about 80...

11 Dec 2018 1:05 PM IST

Scientists believe that asteroids and comets crashing into early Earth delivered organic compounds and water that seeded the planet for life. (Photo: NASA)

NASA probe finds signs of water on nearby asteroid Bennu

OSIRIS-REx, which flew last week within a scant 12 miles (19 km) of the asteroid Bennu.

11 Dec 2018 9:39 AM IST

With its Change 4 mission, China hopes to be the first country to make a soft landing.

China launches pioneering mission to far side of moon

A Long March 3B rocket carrying a lunar probe blasted off at 2:23 a.m. from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in...

9 Dec 2018 7:02 PM IST