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Next-generation GPS satellite launched into orbit

Last Updated: Friday, February 21, 2014, 09:48

A US Global Positioning System satellite was launched into orbit on Thursday, buttressing a 31-member navigation network in constant use by the military, civilian agencies and commercial customers worldwide.

Pocari Sweat` may be `first commercial moon delivery`

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 21:42

Cans of ` Pocari Sweat` may become the first commercial delivery to the moon.

India`s Team Indus among finalists in Google prize to land spacecraft on Moon

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 19:32

India`s Team Indus has been named among the five finalists of the Google Lunar XPrize, the grand global competition to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon by December 2015.

Mars rover Curiosity adds reverse driving for wheel protection

Last Updated: Monday, February 24, 2014, 16:17

NASA`s Mars rover Curiosity has finished its first long trek in over months using reverse driving to lessen damage to its wheels.

NASA`s NuSTAR reveals mystery of how stars explode

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 16:00

Astronomers - with the help of NASA`s, high-energy X-ray observatory,NuSTAR - have finally unravelled one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy, of how stars blow up in supernova explosions.

Ufologist claims evidence of colony on Mercury`s 400 degree C surface

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 15:36

UFO Sightings Daily author Scott Waring has claimed that the grainy digital pictures of Mercury show recently built structures.

Clouds circling supermassive black holes spotted

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 15:31

Astronomers have reported seeing huge clouds of gas orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies.

ESA to launch its space-based observatory PLATO to hunt planets by 2024

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 11:24

A space-based observatory to search for planets orbiting alien stars has been selected as ESA`s third medium-class science mission, and is planned for launch by 2024.

Internet connection on the moon far faster than on the Earth

Last Updated: Thursday, February 20, 2014, 10:51

Sounds unreal, but it`s true! Internet connection on the moon is 10 times faster than on the Earth.

What actually happens when a star is sucked in by a black hole

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 16:04

A new research has tried to show what exactly happens during the destruction of a star as it falls into a black hole.