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Curiosity rover drives in reverse on Mars

Last Updated: Monday, February 24, 2014, 05:29

NASA`s Curiosity Mars rover has completed a 100.3 metre backwards drive over the Martian terrain - the longest one-day trek in more than three months.

China`s moon rover goes into third planned dormancy

Last Updated: Sunday, February 23, 2014, 21:32

China`s first lunar rover Jade Rabbit has entered its third “planned dormancy”. It had woken up ten days ago after being declared dead and now has entered its 14-day dormancy yesterday, with the mechanical control issues unresolved.

NASA halts Orion space capsule test in ocean

Last Updated: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 12:23

NASA officials said on Saturday they have suspended training exercise of a test version of Orion space capsule off California coast.

NASA spots largest ever solar flare

Last Updated: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 10:19

NASA`s newly-launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer, or IRIS, has spotted its strongest solar flare to date.

Leading experts come together to build world`s largest radio telescope

Last Updated: Saturday, February 22, 2014, 10:15

Leading experts from around the world have gathered in Stellenbosch, South Africa to plan how SKA ( Square Kilometre Array ) - an international enterprise to build the largest radio telescope - will be used.

`Mars One` vows to defy fatwa by sending people to space

Last Updated: Friday, February 21, 2014, 19:24

A space exploration company is planning to send four people on a one-way trip to Mars to fight against the fatwa issued by Islamic authorities which mentions that the trip was akin to suicide.

Venus being bombarded by planet-sized space weather explosions

Last Updated: Friday, February 21, 2014, 11:38

Researchers have discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth`s magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus.

Quasar study could turn universe`s formation theory on its head

Last Updated: Friday, February 21, 2014, 11:24

MIT researchers have proposed an experiment that may close the last major loophole of physicist John Bell`s inequality-a 50-year-old theorem that, if violated by experiments, would mean that our universe is based on the less-tangible probabilities of quantum mechanics.

Gas cloud where stars are born spotted

Last Updated: Friday, February 21, 2014, 10:06

A team of researchers, using a telescope installed at the driest place on Earth - Ridge A in Antarctica - have identified a giant gas cloud that appears to be in an early stage of formation.

`Solar storms behave like supernovae`

Last Updated: Friday, February 21, 2014, 09:57

Researchers have explained for the first time the details of how solar storms behave as they fall back onto the Sun`s surface.