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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
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
NASA's groundbreaking Cassini probe is dead after 20 years of exploring Saturn
But with so many questions about Saturn still unanswered, NASA decided to keep Cassini in orbit the…
Dave Mosher
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 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
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
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
Japan has completed its 3-billion-mile mission to collect dust from an asteroid. Photos show the prize falling into Australia like a fireball.
The world now has its first asteroid samples. A Japanese spacecraft bombed asteroid Ryugu to collec…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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…