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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…

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…

Washington : For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere the corona and sampled particles and magnetic fields there, the US space agency has…

Washington : The US space agency is all set to launch its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid, on Wednesday.This DART mission is targeted to launch at 1:21 a.m. EST (11:51 am…

Chennai : For the first time in its space exploration mission, an evasive measure was carried out recently to avoid the collision between Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter and US' Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Indian Space Research Organisation…

Washington : Skygazers are in for a treat as the longest partial lunar eclipse of the century is going to take place on November 19. It is also the longest such eclipse in nearly 600 years.Lunar eclipses occur when the moon passes into the…

New York : NASA's ambitious Parker Solar Probe spacecraft, studying the Sun at close proximity, is being bombarded with space dust and debris on its way to the Sun, according to a study.Scientists at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space…

Washington : NASA has delayed the upcoming launch of the agency's SpaceX Crew-3 mission due to a minor medical issue involving one of its crew members.The space agency is now looking for potential launch opportunities "at the end of the…

Washington : NASA telescopes have captured the colourful blast of a stellar explosion thousands of years ago, shedding new light on the evolution of such cosmic remains.The stellar remnant -- formally known as G344.7-0.1 -- that is located…

Washington : In a novel bid to seek out the origin of our solar system, the US space agency on Saturday launched the Lucy mission, the agency's first to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.Launched atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket…