NASA
- Technology
Data on UFOs fragmented, says NASA in first public meeting
Washington: Data on objects or incidents in the sky has so far been “fragmented”, said NASA in its first public meeting on unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The space agency, last year, set…
- Technology
Saturn’s rings are young and short-lived: NASA
Washington: Saturn’s rings are both young and ephemeral, which means that it may not be long when the beautiful rings may not be there, NASA scientists confirmed in three studies. The research…
- Science
NASA’s CAPSTONE images Moon, successfully tests GPS-like technology
Washington: NASA’s CAPSTONE mission — a microwave oven-sized CubeSat — captured its first images of the Moon, showing the lunar surface near the Moon’s North Pole. The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology…
- Science
Axiom Space’s second mission to space station on Sunday
New Delhi: American private space habitat company Axiom Space is set to launch its second mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. “Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) will be Axiom Space’s…
- World
Christina Hammock Koch to be first woman to go around the moon
US astronaut Christina Hammock Koch will be the envy of all women in the world as she becomes the first woman to go around the moon. While men have journeyed to moon…
- Science
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter captures Martian sunset
Washington: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter captured a shot of a sunset on the Red Planet, during its 45th flight. The little chopper’s high-resolution colour camera captured the Sun on February 22, Space.com…
- World
Biden proposes $27.2 bn for NASA to boost Moon, Mars programmes
Washington: US President Joe Biden has proposed a $27.2 billion budget for NASA in 2024, which is about $1.8 billion more than the agency received this year. The new budget will allow…
- Featured News
NISAR main teri galiyon pe ai vatan…: NASA-ISRO joint Satellite Project in final stages
The headline of this wonderfully written promising story is taken from the first line of the famous poem of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the internationally acclaimed Urdu poet Today is the birth anniversary…
- Science
Asteroid Ryugu is organic-rich, sample reveals
Washington: Asteroid Ryugu has a rich complement of organic molecules, according to a NASA and international team’s initial analysis of a sample from the asteroid’s surface delivered to Earth by Japan’s Hayabusa2…
- Science
NASA’s Webb telescope reveals network of gas, dust in nearby galaxies
San Francisco: Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed the first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths. According to NASA,…
- Science
Explained: Sun did not break off its chunk, just a normal solar activity
Washington: The Sun did not shed a chunk of it as being reported and what was spotted was a normal “solar prominence” activity on its surface. A solar prominence (also known as…
- Middle East
NASA satellites are helping Turkey, Syria earthquake response
Washington: After the massive earthquakes that struck southern Turkey and western Syria on February 6 and killed thousands, NASA on Saturday said it is working to share its aerial views and data…
- Science
Scientists shocked after huge piece of Sun breaks off
The Sun’s North Pole was surrounded by a tornado-like whirl when a large chunk of its surface broke off. Even though researchers are working to understand how it happened, the video of…
- Science
NASA to launch Mars science mission on Bezos-run Blue Origin’s rocket
Washington: The US space agency has announced a science mission to Mars aboard Jeff Bezos-run Blue Origin’s New Glenn space launch vehicle NASA awarded ‘Mars Science Mission Launch’ to Blue Origin’s New…