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NASA astronauts test free-flying smartphone robots in space

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 18:57

Yes, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been working with the small free-flying robots since 2011. Now, they believe that these small spherical robots, which are being upgraded with the smartphones, will be able to perform the housekeeping jobs for them.

Most detailed map yet of Mars developed

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 23, 2014, 12:38

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed the most detailed map of Mars to date, which includes topographic and thermal information as well as data on the properties of the Martian surface.

Dwarf galaxies dancing around larger ones question universe formation theories

Dwarf galaxies dancing around larger ones question universe formation theories

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 16:05

Several dwarf galaxies that `dance` throughout the universe in arranged disc-shaped orbits around larger ones makes it more difficult to understand how the universe was formed and evolved, according to a new study.

Exoplanet with longest known year discovered

Exoplanet with longest known year discovered

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 13:21

In a recent discovery, astronomers have discovered a transiting exoplanet with the longest known year which circles its star once every 704 days.

Mars orbiter completes about 80 per cent of journey

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 12:09

Inching closer to the red planet, India`s ambitious Mars orbiter spacecraft has covered more than 540 million kilometres, about 80 per cent of its journey for its rendezvous with the planet scheduled for September 24.

From Moon to Mars, Armstrong will always be there

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 11:37

Honouring the first moonwalker Neil Armstrong, NASA has renamed the historic "operations and checkout building" at the Florida-based John F Kennedy Space Centre as the "Neil Armstrong operations and checkout building".

Diamond blasted with laser to decode giant planets` core

Last Updated: Sunday, July 20, 2014, 14:34

To unlock the mystery behind how the cores of `super-Earths` or giant planets like Jupiter respond to intense atmospheric pressure, US researchers have blasted a diamond with the world`s biggest laser beam at a very high pressure.

Rosetta`s target comet has a double nucleus

Last Updated: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 19:46

Destination of ESA`s spacecraft Rosetta, Rosetta 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is a twofold comet as seen in the images obtained by OSIRIS, the onboard scientific imaging system recently.

World`s largest laser re-creates giant planets` conditions in lab for first time

Last Updated: Saturday, July 19, 2014, 12:39

Scientists have experimentally re-created the conditions that endure deep inside the giant planets like Jupiter, Uranus and many of the planets recently discovered outside our solar system with the help of very powerful laser.

Conditions deep inside giant planets recreated in lab

Last Updated: Friday, July 18, 2014, 18:29

In what could lead to better understanding of how giant planets form, researchers have experimentally recreated the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets, such as Jupiter, Uranus and many other planets recently discovered outside the solar system.