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NASA will reach an asteroid today that may contain raw materials for life on Earth. Watch the rendezvous live.
According to NASA, Bennu (the asteroid formerly known as "1999 RQ36") is one such dirty asteroid in…
Dave Mosher
A Japanese spacecraft has landed on an asteroid after blasting it with a bullet. The mission will bring back rock samples to Earth.
But Bennu has already made a significant finding: In December, before it entered orbit around Bennu…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
NASA successfully launches a nearly $1 billion mission to an asteroid millions of miles away
This launch occurred exactly a week after SpaceX's planned launch of a satellite for Facebook explo…
Rebecca Harrington
This space probe is almost ready to sample an asteroid - and resolve a mystery of life's origins
This is closer than most asteroids, but the spacecraft likely won't reach Bennu until 2019. After i…
Kelly Dickerson
Here's why NASA is risking nearly $1 billion to suck up 2.1 ounces of dirty asteroid
If all goes according to plan, the 1.7-ton OSIRIS-REx probe - short for Origins, Spectral Interpret…
Dave Mosher
Planned crewed launch of Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft called off
NASA announced on social media platform X that the problem was identified with an oxygen valve on p…
ANI
322 new projects for 12,413 km road construction sanctioned under 'Bharatmala Pariyojana'
Till August, 2,921 km road has been constructed under the project. The Ministry of Road Trans…
CBI takes over probe into Hathras gangrape case
The agency registered an FIR on Sunday morning under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections related to…
PTI
Vedanta will continue on the stock exchange — delisting offer fails due to insufficient shares coming back
Anil Agarwal's Vedanta Limited announced on Saturday that its delisting offer had failed due to the…
India's COVID-19 tally closes in on 7 million mark
The death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 1,07,416 with 926 people succumbing to the disease in a s…
PTI
Delhi's air quality dips to poor — may improve in coming days
The city recorded an overall air quality index (AQI) of 218 at 10:30 am, with Jahangirpuri (AQI …
PTI
Fastest possible speed of sound recorded at 36 km per second
The result is around twice as fast as the speed of sound in diamond, the hardest known material …
Schools in Maharashtra not to reopen before Diwali, says education minister Gaikwad
As the coronavirus cases continue to rise in Maharashtra, state School Education Minister Varsha Ga…
PTI
Antarctic ice may melt 20 years sooner than estimated — global sea levels likely to rise by an additional three inches by 2100
The fact that the polar ice sheets are melting as the planet gets warmers is no secret. However, sc…
Space 2021: All the Mars landings, eclipses, astronaut flights, rocket launches, and other big missions to look for this year
In 2021, we'll see nine meteor showers. Boeing and SpaceX should launch humans into orbit, and NASA…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine says it's in the 'best interest of NASA' for him to resign rather than work for the Biden administration
Bridenstine said NASA's next administrator should be someone with a closer relationship to Biden an…
Susie Neilson
Tonight, NASA is launching a mission that could solve the mystery of life with just a few scoops of dirt
But the road trip doesn't end there. When OSIRIS-Rex finally reaches Bennu in September 2019, it wi…
Ali Sundermier
NASA's next big $1 billion mission has a special delivery for Earth
NASA is about to embark on an epic journey to an asteroid called "Bennu," searching for answers to …
Corey Protin,Jessica Orwig
NASA is about to announce the finalists of its next $1 billion space mission
Previous missions selected by New Frontiers include New Horizons, a nuclear-powered probe that flew…
Dave Mosher
The 10 most important things in the world right now
1. North Korea has conducted a "successful" fifth nuclear test, in an explosion described as Pyongy…