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Indian-American among Nasa's new astronauts for future Moon, Mars missions

Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class

20 key industrial, political and economic developments to expect in 2020

Where is the Sensex headed? will the economy turn around? what about sectors like auto, pharma, consumer goods and infra? Business Standard tells you what to expect in the new year

Mars 2020 rover to seek ancient life, prepare for human missions: NASA

The rover has been constructed in a large, sterile room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, near Los Angeles, where its driving equipment was given its first successful test last week

China opposes US Space Force, says direct threat to outer space security

China's space program has advanced rapidly since its first crewed mission in 2003

Meet Shanmuga Subramanian: The Chennai techie who helped find Vikram debris

Shanmuga Subramanian, who made the discovery said, 'It was something challenging as even NASA can't find out so why can't we try out?'

Nasa satellite finds debris of Chandrayaan-2 lander Vikram, releases pics

NASA has found the crash site and debris of India's Chandrayaan-2 Vikram moon lander following a tip from an Indian space enthusiast who examined pictures of the area of the moon taken by a US orbiting camera.

Elon Musk rips Boeing's $90 million space trips as cost tops SpaceX's

NASA's Inspector General revealed this week that the agency had given Boeing an extra $287.2 million for its work on the commercial crew program

Nasa showcases early version of its first all-electric aeroplane

Adapted from a Italian-made Tecnam P2006T twin-engine propeller plane, the X-57 has been under development since 2015 and remains at least a year away from its first test flight

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

The VIPER robot will drive for miles (km) on the dusty lunar surface to get a closer look at underground pockets of "hundreds of millions of tons of water ice"

NASA orbiter finds no trace of Chandrayaan-2 lander 'Vikram' on moon

On September 7, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) attempted a soft landing of Vikram on the uncharted lunar south pole, before losing communication with the lander

Nissan, NASA to collaborate on research into future autonomous vehicles

Researchers from the Nissan Research Centre in Silicon Valley and NASA Ames have been working together to advance autonomous vehicle systems

Boeing, SpaceX progressing towards first crewed missions in 2018: NASA

"Both companies are scheduled to begin flight tests to prove the space systems meet NASA's requirements for certification in the coming year," Xinhua quoted NASA as saying

NASA to send probe to Titan or a comet by 2025

Both missions will receive funding through the end of 2018 to further develop and mature their concepts.

This is how Google AI helped NASA discover two exoplanets

The Google AI found exoplanets using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

Google AI helps Nasa discover solar system like ours

Kepler's four-year dataset consists of 35,000 possible planetary signals

Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball'

Telescopes in Chile, Hawaii and Arizona were used for the discovery and confirmation

Moon-sized body may have delivered gold, platinum to Earth: NASA

Planetary collisions are at the core of our solar system's formation, according to the study supported by NASA

Nasa scientists spot farthest known galaxy 'SPT0615-JD' in the universe

SPT0615-JD was identified in Hubble's Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey & companion S-RELICS Spitzer programme

NASA fires up Voyager 1 thrusters after 37 years

These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet

NASA to measure orbital debris around international space station

The Dec 4 launch will be SpaceX's 13th commercial resupply mission to the space station for NASA