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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
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Potentially hazardous giant asteroid to skim past Earth on Thursday: NASA
According to the Centre, as they orbit the Sun, the NEOs can occasionally approach close to Earth. …
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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Earth gets its first asteroid samples from 300 million kilometres away — and they could hold clues to the origins of life
Earth has known about the existence of asteroids since the 1800s, but it has taken humans more than…
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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
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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…
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Apophis, the ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid is speeding up — increasing the likelihood of it hitting Earth in 2068
This is when the asteroid speeds up because its thermal radiation is no longer uniform. Simply p…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…