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(Reuters) – A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said. The powered test flight over California’s Mojave Desert lasted 16 seconds and [...]
NASA released a time-lapse video of the sun showing three years’ solar activity in two minutes. The images are the latest from a project started in 2010 by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Photo: NASA Source: WSJDigitalNetwork
BANGALORE: Astrologer Shakuntala Devi, who was dubbed “human computer” for her swift numerical calculation abilities, passed away here on Sunday after brief illness. She was 83 and is survived by a daughter. “Madam breathed her last around 8.15am today (Sunday) in a private hospital due to heart failure and renal problem,” her associate Kavita [...]
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. The Kepler-62 system has five planets; 62b, 62c, 62d, 62e and [...]
Summer Ice Melt In Antarctica Is At The Highest Point In 1,000 Years, Researchers Say CANBERRA (Reuters) – The summer ice melt in parts of Antarctica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – President Barack Obama wants NASA to start work on finding a small asteroid that could be shifted into an orbit near the moon and used by astronauts as a stepping-stone for an eventual mission to Mars. The project, which envisions that astronauts could visit such an asteroid as early as [...]
The thin atmosphere of Mars is but a straggly reminder of what it used to be, according to Nasa scientists. In news that will give you the jitters every time you feel a stiff breeze, Nasa now has proof that most of the gas on Mars has was blown into space – and escaped from the [...]
A Dutch company called Mars One is looking for volunteer astronauts to participate in the first manned-mission to Mars. The company wants to send four people to the Red Planet to start a colony in 2023 although there is one catch – the successful applicants will have no way of coming back. Jim Drury [...]
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