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The candidates will need at least two years’ professional experience, or, in the case of pilots, 1,000 hours of pilot-in-command time. read more

Made for Mars, the wheel made of nickel-titanium alloy can change shape as needed read more

NASA’s Christina Koch touched down at 0912 GMT on the Kazakh steppe after 328 days in space, along with Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency. read more

Nasa turned off its Spitzer Space Telescope, the best infrared eye in the universe, on January 30, ending a 16-year mission. Launched in 2003, Spitzer was one of Nasa’s four Great Observatories, along with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray... read more

ISRO will be selecting three students from each state and union territories for the programme, who will later get lectures by ISRO scientists and will also get access to the space agency’s laboratories. read more

Spitzer, which was launched in 2003, studied some of the most distant galaxies ever detected with the light from some of the cosmic bodies travelling for billions of years to reach the telescope. read more

The satellites -- a pioneering international space telescope and an experimental US craft traveling in opposing orbits -- are expected to pass within 100 meters (yards) of each other at 2339 GMT, according to the space debris tracker LeoLabs. read more

NASA astronaut Christina Koch has been living on the International Space Station since March and returns to Earth on Feb. 6, landing in Kazakhstan with two colleagues aboard a Russian capsule. read more

Still sealed in individual baking pouches and packed in their spaceflight container, the cookies remain frozen in a lab. read more

Isro chief K Sivan said the Gaganyaan mission not only aims at India’s maiden human flight to the space but also setting up a new space station for ‘continuous space human presence’. read more

The nine-minute flight ended with the Dragon crew capsule parachuting safely into the Atlantic, after separating and speeding away from the exploding rocket. read more

On Tuesday, speaking at the 45th Eastern India Science Fair and 19th Science and Engineering Fair in the city, Dhankhar said flying objects existed during the time of Ramayana, drawing criticism from a section of scientists and scholars, and several... read more

In 2019, when 17-year-old Wolf Cukier finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in New York, he joined NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as a summer intern. read more

The Marine Corps major, MIT graduate and college basketball player can now add another accomplishment to her burgeoning resume: the first Iranian-American astronaut. read more

January 10 will witness the first of four Penumbral lunar eclipses of 2020. read more