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NASA’s Juno to make closest flyby to Jupiter’s largest Moon on June 7
NASA's Juno spacecraft will come within 645 miles (1,038 kilometres) of the surface of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede on June 7, the US space agency said on Friday.The solar-powered Juno spacecraft will fly past Ganymede at 1:35 p.m. EDT…
NASA to study ‘lost habitable’ world of Venus
NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus to understand how Earths nearest planetary neighbour became an inferno-like world when it may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like…
Organic salts detected on Mars: NASA
Organic salts are likely present on Mars, a NASA team has found, and their detection may provide evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet.A study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, found that organic salts,…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter completes first one-way trip
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has added many firsts to its kitty. After becoming the first to test power flight on another world and to capture the colour image of the Martian surface, the mini helicopter has now completed its fifth…
NASA astronaut successfully harvests 2 plants in space
NASAs Expedition 64 crew member Michael Hopkins has harvested two crops in space -- 'Amara' mustard, and a previously grown crop, 'Extra Dwarf' pak choi. They were grown for 64 days, the longest leafy greens have grown on station, the US…
NASA’s Odyssey spacecraft marks 20 years of mapping Mars
Do you know that a NASA spacecraft launched 20 years ago is still working at the Red Planet?For two decades, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet, 2001 Mars Odyssey, has helped locate water ice, assess landing sites, and study the…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx completes last flyover of asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has completed its last flyover of Bennu and is now slowly drifting away from the asteroid, the US space agency has said.The flyover was completed at around 6 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, but the mission team will have…
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter touches down on Red Planet
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has been dropped on the surface of the Red Planet ahead of its historic first flight scheduled for April 11.Ingenuity flew to Mars while being attached to the belly of NASA's Perseverance rover, which made a…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe set for final flyby of asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will get one last close encounter with Bennu on April 7 as it performs a final flyover to capture images of the asteroid's surface.While performing the flyover, the spacecraft will observe Bennu from a distance…
Astronomers detect X-rays from Uranus for 1st time
In a finding that may help scientists learn more about Uranus, astronomers have detected X-rays from this enigmatic ice giant planet in our solar system, for the first time.Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has two sets of rings…