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Newly discovered `hypervelocity star` could provide clues about `dark matter`

Last Updated: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 09:36

Researchers have discovered a "hypervelocity star" that is the closest, second-brightest and among the largest of 20 found so far.

NASA’s Curiosity rover drills hole into 3rd Martian rock for sample test

NASA’s Curiosity rover drills hole into 3rd Martian rock for sample test

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 14:17

Last week NASA’s Curiosity Rover conducted a successful test bore into a sandstone slab at “Kimberley”. This week it decided to go for a deep drill excursion into the Martian rock target called “Windjama.

Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 11:29

Researchers have created a map using data from the Planck Space Telescope.

Two astronauts inducted into NASA Hall of Fame

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 22:06

Two former astronauts and veteran space explorers, Shannon Lucid and Jerry Ross were inducted into the NASA Hall of Fame.

Soon, Boeing spacecraft to send astronauts in space

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 14:11

Boeing is entering into a new domain of space-bound flight operations. Boeing has unveiled a mock up of the interior of their new Crew Space Transportation (CST-100) vehicle that will be used to astronauts into space in the coming years.

NASA produces video clip with R2-D2 for annual Star Wars day

Last Updated: Monday, May 5, 2014, 19:29

NASA has produced a video clip on the occasion of the annual Star Wars day , which stars the iconic R2-D2 coming to their rescue.

Two suns could up chances of habitable `Exomoons`

Last Updated: Monday, May 5, 2014, 16:07

Moons in close binary solar systems have a better chance of hosting life than those in single-star systems according to a new research.

Bus-sized asteroid buzzes Earth, comes closer than the moon

Last Updated: Monday, May 5, 2014, 10:15

NASA has reported that a small sized asteroid buzzed close to the Earth at a range that was closer than the moon on May 3 . The asteroid was about the size of a city bus and posed no threat to our planet.

India successfully test fires Astra air-to-air missile

Last Updated: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 22:43

India today successfully test-fired its first indigenously-developed air-to-air missile Astra from a Su-30 combat aircraft over a firing range in the western sector.

NASA to grow plants in space

Last Updated: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 17:49

NASA has developed a vegetable production system termed as `Veggie plant pillows` that could soon give astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) their first taste of space-grown salad.