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Solar Orbiter sends closest images of Sun, reveals mysterious 'campfires'

As the spacecraft flew within 48 million miles of the Sun, all 10 instruments flicked on, and Solar Orbiter snapped the closest pictures of the giant star to date

Boeing receives $916 mn deal to support NASA with ISS ops for next 4 years

Under the terms of the contract, Boeing will provide engineering support services, resources and personnel for activities aboard the ISS and manage many of the station's systems, the release said

Six things you should know about NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter

When NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida later this summer, an innovative experiment will ride along

Comet Neowise to be visible in Indian skies for 20 days starting July 14

Dubbed as Neowise, the comet swept within Mercury's orbit a week ago

Curiosity resumes Martian mountain climb as Nasa team runs rover from home

Amid coronavirus pandemic, scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are executing commands from their living rooms to run a rover over 116 million km away, on Mars

Isro's Mangalyan sends images of Mars' biggest moon Phobos and its craters

'The Mars Colour Camera (MCC) on board the Mars Orbiter Mission has imaged Phobos,' Isro said in a statement

Breathe easy: 40% drop in Sulphur Dioxide concentration in air across India

The observations are significant as India was in 2019 named the world's largest emitter of SO2

In pictures: All you need to know about NASA's Lunar Loo Challenge

NASA is offering $35,000 as a cash reward to people for engineering the best 'lunar loo' design. All the submissions for the challenge should be made by August 17

NASA finds drop in CO2, greenhouse emission in India during virus lockdown

NASA collaborates with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to document planet-wide changes in the environment, society during the Covid-19 lockdown

Youngest hot Jupitar offers new clues to formation of exotic worlds

HIP 67522 b was identified as a planet candidate by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which detects planets via the transit method

NASA selects Kathy Lunders as new head of human spaceflight mission

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency's next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations

Earth vs Space chess: Match to be played today to mark 50th anniversary

Russia's Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin will be present at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, and the match will be streamed by the Russian chess federation

A new paradigm

The success of SpaceX has opened up immense possibilities

Stadium-sized asteroid, 2 others to whiz past Earth in June: Know details

NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) web-site at the Centre for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) reveals that they will be fast approaching the Earth this month

Hubble's surprise discovery in early universe paves way for Webb Telescope

The team was looking for answers about when and how the first stars and galaxies in the universe were formed after the Big Bang

Three Indian manufacturers to commercialise NASA-developed ventilator

Alpha Design Technologies, Bharat Forge and Medha Servo Drives are three of 18 companies in the world to have been selected to manufacture the life-saving machine

Nasa-SpaceX Mission: Crew Dragon astronauts enter Space Station

The US space agency posted a video of Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley stepping into the ISS and being greeted by the three spacefarers who had been living on its board for months

Docking confirmed: Crew Dragon has arrived at the @space_station!

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) also took to Twitter to announce the docking

SpaceX's Dragon delivers two astronauts to International Space Station

With test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken poised to take over manual control if necessary, the SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up to the station and docked automatically, without any assistance

In pictures: All you should know about the successful SpaceX-NASA launch

Falcon 9 lifts off from historic Launch Complex 39A and sends Crew Dragon to orbit on its first flight with NASA astronauts to the space station