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Israel joins NASA-led Artemis space mission to land humans on Moon, Mars
Jerusalem : Israel has signed the Artemis Accords and joined the US-led programme to land human beings on the Moon by 2025 and later on Mars, the Israel Space Agency (ISA) said.The agreement, signed by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and ISA…
What’s next for Webb telescope after reaching final destination in space
Washington : NASA's next-generation James Webb telescope, which travelled about 1 million miles from Earth, has reached its final destination.But, the science operations are expected to begin only in late June or early July, Space.com…
NASA’s James Webb telescope reaches final orbit in space
Washington : NASA's revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope has reached the final orbit in space on Tuesday, after a month of space travel.A joint effort with the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canadian Space Agency, the Webb mission was…
NASA offers $1mn for innovative ideas to feed astronauts
Washington : NASA will pay up to $1 million to people who can come up with innovative and sustainable food production ideas to feed astronauts in space, as the US space agency prepares to send astronauts further into the cosmos than ever…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover finds carbon signature on Mars
Washington : Scientists at NASA's Curiosity rover have found a type of carbon that on Earth is associated with biological processes from several powdered rock samples collected from the surface of Mars.While the finding is intriguing, it…
2021 6th hottest year, last 8 years the warmest: NASA
New Delhi/New York : Earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record, and the past eight years are the warmest, according to an independent analysis done by NASA and the National Oceanic and…
NASA’s Webb Telescope unfolds primary mirror, set for big action
Washington : NASA's James Webb Space Telescope team has successfully deployed its 21-foot, gold-coated primary mirror, completing the final stage of all major spacecraft deployments to prepare for science operations in deeper space.A joint…
Amazon Alexa to fly with NASA’s 1st Artemis Moon mission
New Delhi : As the world prepares for NASA's Artemis 1 mission, likely to take off as soon as in March this year to send an Orion spacecraft around the Moon, it will carry Amazon's virtual assistant Alexa and Cisco Webex video collaboration…
What’s next for NASA’s newly launched James Webb Space Telescope
New York: NASA's next-generation James Webb telescope enroute to space to probe galaxies, distant worlds will take 29 days to reach its orbit, about 1 million miles from Earth.The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was launched atop an…
NASA’s James Webb telescope enroute space to probe our origin
Washington : After nearly two and a half decades of hard work, the US space agency and its partners on Saturday launched its next-generation space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, that will help solve mysteries in our solar…