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Laser Space Communication Systems to play instrumental role in future missions: NASA

The US space agency NASA is doing intensive research to develop laser-based space communications systems which will play a major role in ensuring rapid and accurate transmission of information from...

November 10, 2013

Kepler 78b: Newly discovered planet

Astronomers have discovered a new planet called Kepler 78b which has a similar mass and density to that of Earth. The planet revolves around a star 400 light...

November 2, 2013

ISRO conducts successful test run of Mars Orbiter Mission

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) performed a glitch free rehearsal of India’s first mission to the Red Planet designated the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) at Sriharikota centre....

November 2, 2013

First known tilted planetary system discovered by NASA

The US space agency NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovered the first known tilted planetary system in the Space which is angled 45 degrees to the line of sight...

October 24, 2013

M60-UCD1: Densest galaxy ever discovered

Scientists have discovered the densest galaxy ever which they have named as M60-UCD1.  The galaxy was discovered using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Follow-up observations were done with NASA’s Chandra...

October 1, 2013

Voyager 1 crosses Solar System, enters interstellar space

Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to cross the Solar System and enter into interstellar space on August 25, 2012. The space probe is at a distance...

September 21, 2013

NASA launches LADEE probe to study lunar atmosphere

NASA launched a robotic explorer LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) into space from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. About LADEE spacecraft: LADEE is Lunar Atmosphere and...

September 9, 2013

NASA uses Chandrayan’s data to detect water on Moon

Scientists from the US space agency NASA have detected magmatic water under the Moon’s surface. They used the data collected by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) instrument aboard the Indian...

August 30, 2013

Curiosity rover confirms Martian air mostly contains CO2

The Curiosity rover sent by NASA which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012 with the aim to explore the Red Planet has confirmed that its air is...

July 25, 2013

World's first ever mission to Moon's South Pole Planned for 2016

The International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express announced first mission to the south pole of the moon in 2016 at NASA Lunar Science Institute conference at NASA...

July 24, 2013

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