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Nasa showcases early version of its first all-electric aeroplane

Adapted from a Italian-made Tecnam P2006T twin-engine propeller plane, the X-57 has been under development since 2015 and remains at least a year away from its first test flight

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

The VIPER robot will drive for miles (km) on the dusty lunar surface to get a closer look at underground pockets of "hundreds of millions of tons of water ice"

NASA orbiter finds no trace of Chandrayaan-2 lander 'Vikram' on moon

On September 7, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) attempted a soft landing of Vikram on the uncharted lunar south pole, before losing communication with the lander

Nissan, NASA to collaborate on research into future autonomous vehicles

Researchers from the Nissan Research Centre in Silicon Valley and NASA Ames have been working together to advance autonomous vehicle systems

Boeing, SpaceX progressing towards first crewed missions in 2018: NASA

"Both companies are scheduled to begin flight tests to prove the space systems meet NASA's requirements for certification in the coming year," Xinhua quoted NASA as saying

NASA to send probe to Titan or a comet by 2025

Both missions will receive funding through the end of 2018 to further develop and mature their concepts.

This is how Google AI helped NASA discover two exoplanets

The Google AI found exoplanets using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.

Google AI helps Nasa discover solar system like ours

Kepler's four-year dataset consists of 35,000 possible planetary signals

Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball'

Telescopes in Chile, Hawaii and Arizona were used for the discovery and confirmation

Moon-sized body may have delivered gold, platinum to Earth: NASA

Planetary collisions are at the core of our solar system's formation, according to the study supported by NASA

Nasa scientists spot farthest known galaxy 'SPT0615-JD' in the universe

SPT0615-JD was identified in Hubble's Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey & companion S-RELICS Spitzer programme

NASA fires up Voyager 1 thrusters after 37 years

These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet

NASA to measure orbital debris around international space station

The Dec 4 launch will be SpaceX's 13th commercial resupply mission to the space station for NASA

Nasa map shows how Earth has changed in 20 yrs and impact of climate change

Satellites measured land and ocean life from space as early as the 1970s

NASA contracts Uber to build flying taxi air control software

Holden is set to reveal the company's latest air taxi plans at Web Summit, an annual internet conference taking place in Lisbon

Taxis that fly? Uber ties up with NASA to get them off the ground

The announcement comes as the Uber Elevate summit in Los Angeles brings together tech and transportation leaders to discuss the future of urban aviation.

Nasa's new global map shows seasonal changes on Earth over two decades

Polar ice caps and snow cover are shown ebbing and flowing with the seasons

Nasa's Dawn mission set for close look at dwarf planet Ceres

NASA has approved a second extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres, allowing the spacecraft to get a closer look at the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. During this extension, the spacecraft will descend to lower altitudes than ever before at the dwarf planet, which it has been orbiting since March 2015. The spacecraft will continue at Ceres for the remainder of its science investigation and will remain in a stable orbit indefinitely after its fuel runs out. The Dawn flight team is studying ways to manoeuvre the spacecraft into a new elliptical orbit, which may take the it to less than 200 kilometres from the surface of Ceres at closest approach. Previously, Dawn's lowest altitude was 385 kilometres. A priority of the second Ceres mission extension is collecting data with Dawn's gamma ray and neutron spectrometer, which measures the number and energy of gamma rays and neutrons. This information is important for understanding the compositi

Planet Nine does exist in our solar system: NASA

The elusive 'Planet Nine' does exist, and may be 10 times the mass of the Earth and 20 times away from the Sun than Neptune, NASA scientists say. Planet Nine could turn out to be our solar system's missing 'super Earth' - a planet with a mass higher than the Earth's, but substantially lower than the masses of ice giants Uranus and Neptune. The signs so far are indirect, mainly its gravitational footprints, but that adds up to a compelling case, they said. "There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine," said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the US. "If you were to remove this explanation and imagine Planet Nine does not exist, then you generate more problems than you solve. All of a sudden, you have five different puzzles, and you must come up with five different theories to explain them," said Batygin. Six known objects in the distant Kuiper Belt,

Nasa running out of critical fuel for future space missions, warns US govt

Nasa's current plans for solar system exploration, supply of this critical resource could be exhausted within the next decade