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The Korean government is planning to develop a technology for South Korea's first artificial sun 'KSTAR' to maintain 100 million degrees for 300 seconds by 2026. The 300 seconds is the minimum time required for the commercialisation of nuclear fusion technology.

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MIT researchers are trying a new concept to harness the Moon's natural charge to keep hovering rovers in the air. In the absence of an atmosphere, the Moon and asteroids build an electric field through direct exposure to the Sun. On the Moon, this strong surface charge can levitate dust more than one metre above the ground.

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Are there rainbows on Mars? NASA decided to answer this questions in the latest episode of its ‘Ask The Expert' series. Shared on Instagram, the video features the US space agency's planetary scientist and Mars expert Mark Lemmon.

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NASA's James Webb Telescope is going through some critical manoeuvre phases which will determine its success as a mission to shed light on the origin of the universe. The powerful space observatory, which was launched into orbit on Christmas Day, is heading for a “make or break” moment when it attempts to unpack its five-layered sun shield.

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Biogen shares surged following a report that Samsung is in talks to acquire the US biotech company for more than $40 billion (roughly Rs. 2,98,170 crore).

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million (roughly Rs. 2,515 crore) in equity financing, the rocket company disclosed in a regulatory filing.

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Astronomers have captured a massive black hole eruption that could span the length of 16 full Moons if they were lined up side by side.

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NASA has enlisted 24 theologians and priests to understand how humans will react to the discovery of alien life. The US space agency looks to be closer than ever to discovering signs of life outside our planet.

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SavorEat, an Israeli foodtech company, has launched 3D-printed vegan burgers that can be personalised for each customer. The burgers are made on site by a self-contained 3D printer with three cartridges containing oils and other ingredients.

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Egypt has "digitally unwrapped" the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing his funerary mask.

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China accused the United States of irresponsible and unsafe conduct in space over two "close encounters" between the Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Russia has conducted a third launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket, the first developed after the fall of the Soviet Union 30 years ago this month.

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Japan revised the schedule of its space exploration plans, aiming to put a Japanese person on the moon by the latter half of the 2020s.

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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer shared two videos which give a sneak peek into life aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In one of them, he shows what astronauts do to strengthen their muscle mass and bone density in the weightless environment.

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An international group of scientists has tried to study a neutron star, which is created when a giant star dies in a supernova and its core collapses, forming neutrons. In a first, the group says it has been able to measure the oscillations in the brightness in a magnetar.

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OneWeb launched 36 communications satellites into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, live broadcasts showed.

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Chinese citizens lashed out online against Elon Musk's space ambitions after China complained that its space station was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk's Starlink programme.

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Rogue planets have baffled astronomers for ages. Unlike regular planets which revolve around stars, these free-floating planets (FFPs) get ejected from star systems to move about in the galaxy on their own. In the latest discovery, astronomers found the largest cluster of rogue planets in a single star-forming region.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched on Christmas Day, had begun its first mid-course correction burn on December 25 at 7:50pm EST (6.20am IST on December 26). This burn is one of two time-sensitive milestones, the first being the deployment of solar arrays which occurred shortly after its launch.

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James Webb Space Telescope on December 25 blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost 930,000 miles from Earth, after several delays caused by technical hitches.

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NASA's largest space telescope launch countdown has begun. The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched today on Christmas Day, December 25, and space enthusiasts can watch all the action live.

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A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience.

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Scientists have repeatedly observed anomalies in Venus’ atmosphere. The most puzzling anomaly of them all is the presence of ammonia.

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NASA has delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which would be the successor to the Hubble. The space agency said the launch will happen a day later than the earlier stipulated time, on Christmas Day, December 25, from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, where high winds are a major factor.

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Cryptocurrency pioneer Justin Sun will fly to space on billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin's flight next year and invite five other crew mates.

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NASA has again delayed its planned launch of the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 by at least a month. The space agency had initially targeted the launch of the mission on February 12, 2022, but issues in the integrated testing programme have forced another schedule delay.

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Paleontologists have found a never-seen-before fossil of a complete baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg. The fossil showed the remarkable similarities between theropod dinosaurs and the birds they would evolve into, according to a new study.

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A solar storm warning has been issued, with an expert saying that at least two “big-flare players” could be released from the Sun soon. Space weather physicist Dr. Tamitha Skov said that many sunspot clusters could be seen from the Earth. She added that though there were “no large Earth-directed storms yet,” they were on “high alert.”

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A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit from California, US.

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From our Moon to Mars to Jupiter, researchers are baring all guns to find more about the world around us. While the current focus is on the Moon and Mars, there already is a probe orbiting Jupiter. Named Juno, the probe's goal is to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system's largest planet.

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa returned to Earth on Monday after a 12-day journey into space, ending a practice run for his planned trip around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX in 2023.

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Earth looks incredible when seen from space, thanks to its blue cover of water bodies. Astronomers have captured the breathtaking beauty of our planet in countless photographs and videos. But has this planet always been like what it is today? How did 70 percent of Earth's surface get covered with water? Scientists have long argued the possibilities.

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A spotting scope is a compact high-power optimised tool for detailed observation of distant objects and looks like a small telescope. It always requires a tripod to set it up and obtain maximum stability. Here is a list of scopes to look at, if you are planning to buy one,

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NASA is testing the robotics and hardware that will help it bring rock and atmospheric samples collected by its Perseverance rover on Mars back to Earth.

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Researchers at a Japanese institute say they have found a way to make renewable energy more efficient. It is called “carbon/air secondary battery (CASB)” and comprises a solid-oxide fuel and electrolysis cell (SOFC/ECs) where carbon generated via electrolysis of carbon dioxide (CO2) is oxidised with air to produce energy

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Fossilised footprints of meat-eating dinosaurs discovered in Spain's La Rioja region reveal that these terrifying creatures may have sprinted faster than a car being driven on city roads.

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James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space telescope ever and the most noteworthy after Hubble, has been placed atop the Ariane 5, the rocket which will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been feeding us with several discoveries from the Red Planet ever since it landed on it in February this year. After nearly 10 months of driving around the Jezero Crater, researchers are beginning to understand that the region had been formed from red-hot magma, possibly from a long-dormant Martian volcano.

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Mars' huge canyon system, Valles Marineris, may hold hidden water beneath the surface, according to a new study. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos' collbaorative ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) discovered large volumes of water in the canyon's heart.

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Yusaku Maezawa is stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this week. The 46-year-old is the first self-paying tourist to visit the ISS since 2009, and it appears his vacation is worth the money spent.

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NASA has announced a collaboration with aerospace company Axiom Space for its second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The space agency said it will now negotiate with Axiom on a mission order agreement for the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2).

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin blasted its third private crew into space and brought it back safely, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut and TV personality Michael Strahan.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva.

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European Space Agency recently shared an astonishing photo on their Instagram of a spiral galaxy named NCG 7329. It also explained how the Hubble Space Telescope manages to click such stunning images.

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The United States is testing satellite resiliency to threats from China and Russia miles above the Earth's surface, just weeks after Russia shot down an aging communications satellite.

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Astronauts who travel into orbit and put up with extended stays at the International Space Station (ISS) often face vision problems. This has been linked to the micro gravitational environment in spacecraft, which leads to swelling in the brain and optic nerves.

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Sagittarius A* is the name of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

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Space mining is an idea that began taking hold at the turn of the century, and 10 years ago, it was passionately discussed. Many argued that space mining could revolutionise the commercial space economy by employing robots and private astronauts to explore and mine near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) for precious metals and even rare earth metals.

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The extinction of dinosaurs took place about 66 million years ago but we are yet to know the full impact of the asteroid that wiped out this species. Scientists are still studying the disaster and continuously unearthing new aspects of the devastating impact. Now, researchers say that if the asteroid's trajectory had been slightly different, it would have missed the E...

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A video reportedly recorded by an American military pilot over the South China Sea shows a dozen unidentified flying objects (UFOs) near Hong Kong, before suddenly disappearing into the clouds. The video shows three sets of four mysterious light formations flying in the distance above the clouds.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin blasted its third private crew into space and brought it back safely, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut and TV personality Michael Strahan.

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Australian federal police say they are using an advanced DNA sequencing technology to predict the physical appearance of potential suspects.

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US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigating allegations made against Blue Origin’s human spaceflight program said it found no safety issues.

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Scientists have warned that a nearby star experienced an energy blast at least 10 times bigger than the biggest CME the Sun has ever recorded in a warning to earth.

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A giant planet, 10 times the size of Jupiter and orbiting a pair of massive stars, has been discovered using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

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India will launch its much-awaited human spaceflight mission in 2023, Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Named Gaganyaan, the first human space mission to launch from Indian soil was initially set for August 2022, to mark 75 years of India's independence but the coronavirus-induced pandemic forced a delay in its timeline.

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NASA has warned about the potential impacts of “swirling Sun debris" created by a solar storm likely to hit the Earth by December 11. The agency said a coronal mass ejection (CME) of plasma and magnetic field escaped the Sun earlier this week and is expected to possibly strike by Saturday.

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NASA launched the IXPE telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Thursday.

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Researchers are setting up an indestructible “Black Box” for Earth to record the events which could lead to our demise. This giant structure, about the size of a bus, sits on a granite plain surrounded by mountains on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

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Yusaku Maezawa set out to become the first space tourist in more than a decade to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) when he blasted off on Wednesday.

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NASA's new laser technology is finally space-bound. After much anticipation and a two-year delay, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) was launched today (December 8) at 5:19am EST. According to NASA's social media updates, the LCRD was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on an Atlas V rocket of the United Launch Alliance.

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Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope was trying to understand how young stars influenced their environment and it witnessed a shock wave of colliding luminous gases in the 'Running Man' Nebula.

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NASA shared images captured from a space observatory on Instagram, which showed the Moon's shadow as it passed over Antarctica.

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Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.

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Researchers have now discovered the biggest and most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in the country at the site. Fossils of 11 dinosaurs have been unearthed at Villaggio del Pescatore, a former limestone quarry close to the north-eastern port city of Trieste. The skeletons belong to the species Tethyshadros insularis, which lived 80 million years ago.

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NASA published a new blog post on Monday to inform that it has completed the complex task of fuelling the James Webb Space Telescope that is scheduled to be launched into orbit on December 22.

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The comet, named Leonard after the astronomer Gregory Leonard, who discovered it earlier this year, is likely to be bright when it makes its closest approach to Earth on December 12. In fact, the comet is still visible in the sky in the east, before sunrise.

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Stanford University has launched a class that will be conducted entirely in virtual reality (VR). It is the first VR class in the university's history.

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DNA can be described as the molecule that stores all the genetic instructions needed to shape every living organism. "That's a lot of information, and we have a copy of all that information in every single cell in our body," Dr. Keith EJ Tyo said.

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Russia will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the ISS in a move marking Moscow's return to the now booming space tourism business after a decade-long break.

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The more you bird, the more you see, and the ‘birdier’ it looks! Taking a snapshot with a camera helps capture a memory or a bird in a pretty photograph; to remember what it looks like, where it was found and what it was doing when it was found. So how do birders learn and memorise bird sounds? Well, the more you listen, the more you learn, and the louder it sound...

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A new species of dinosaur has been discovered in southern Chile. This species had a uniquely shaped armoured tail. Named Stegouros elengassen, it featured a large flat tail and at the end of it, seven pairs of blades.

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A team of researchers used DeepMind's AI to discover a surprising connection between algebraic and geometric invariant knots, establishing a completely new theorem in the field.

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Fermi National Particle Accelerator Laboratory, a US government lab, claim to have developed a magnet that demonstrates the fastest ramping rates by any magnet in the world.

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NASA will test its new laser communication technology at 2pm IST on December 5, which is aimed at speeding up space communications.

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Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have discovered two supermassive black holes located in the constellation Aquarius, which is about 89 million light-years away from Earth.

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Scientists have developed the first living robots known as Xenobots - made up of almost 3,000 frog cells - that can reproduce via a self-replicating process.

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Some of the top technology trends that look to unfold in 2022 include the further development of Web 3.0., large-scale crypto adoption, countries regulating Big Tech firms, and the proliferation of meatless meat.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an experimental chewing gum that they claim could help slow down the transmission of COVID-19

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created a jelly-like material that can withstand the weight of an elephant without losing its shape.

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The mysteries trapped in the corners of the universe are far more exciting than anyone could ever imagine. With each passing day and month, astronomers find new riddles and solve them in what is as puzzling as they are delightful. Sometimes astronomers find things in a place they least expect them to be. And that's exactly what has happened with a group of astronomers...

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Elon Musk has wished luck to NASA's planetary defence mission DART in his typical cryptic style. The mission, launched on Wednesday, is set to give a non-threatening asteroid a small nudge to see whether it can change its direction.

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The last solar eclipse of 2021 will occur on December 4. People in the Southern Hemisphere will be able to experience a total or partial eclipse of the Sun. A solar eclipse takes place when the Moon occupies a position between the Sun and Earth in a straight line.

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NASA's Curiosity rover celebrated the 10th anniversary of its launch on November 26 by sending a spectacular postcard from the Red Planet. The rover had captured two black-and-white images of the thrilling Martian landscape while it was perched on the side of Mount Sharp.

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A group of scientists discovered the bones of a dinosaur in the US state of Missouri recently. They claim it's a new species never found before in the country. The skeleton of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur, called Parrosaurus Missouriensis, is a staggering 25–30 feet long.

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Just a day after NASA scientists said that they have found 301 new exoplanets, astronomers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have stated that they identified 366 new exoplanets using data from the Kepler space telescope.

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The Pentagon is creating a new office to investigate unidentified flying objects amid concerns that after broad probes it cannot explain mysterious sightings near highly sensitive military areas.

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A new deep learning method has added a whopping 301 exoplanets to the total tally. These planets were added to the already validated 4,569 planets which are orbiting several distant stars. The additions were made with the help of a deep neural method called ExoMiner.

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NASA is preparing a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid — a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth.

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NASA is set to test a laser technology in space. This mission is aimed at speeding up space communications. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will be launched on December 4 after a two-year delay.

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A University of Glasgow researcher has made a device that will enable pet dogs to communicate with their owners over long distances. Dr. Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas, a specialist in animal-computer interaction at the university's School of Computing Science, has been building devices for her 10-year-old Labrador for a while now.

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Binoculars, often referred to as binocs/ bins/ nocs are the birders best ally in the field helping them spot, identify, and fully appreciate the beauty of the birds. Like a superior tool enhances the craft of an artisan, so does a good pair of binocs enhance the ability and overall experience of the birder.

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NASA has shared a stunning image of an “undersea world” from deep space. The image is of the Cosmic Reef and it comprises two different nebulae. The first nebula, with a hue of red and blue against a black backdrop dotted with sparkling lights, is a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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There is a growing amount of space debris, comprising everything from dead spacecraft and spent rocket parts to the junk created by anti-satellite tests. This junk is whizzing around at incredible speeds, posing a serious threat to communications satellites and the International Space Station (ISS).

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Final rehearsals for NASA's planetary defence test are already underway. The one-of-a-kind mission, which will launch next week, is set to intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect its path. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will attempt to hit the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid called Didymos.

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NASA and the top US federal nuclear research lab put out a request for proposals for a fission surface power system.

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Data from almost four decades ago can suggest the presence of a ninth planet in the Solar System. The hypothetical Planet Nine has been in the talks among scientists for some time but no one has yet observed it. Michael Rowan-Robinson, professor of astrophysics at Imperial College London, dived into 38-year-old data and now he claims to have found the fabled Planet Ni...

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Mars has now emerged as the new frontier, with most space-faring nations focussing on the exploration of the Red Planet. The idea behind exploring Mars is to find signs of life, understand its climate, and figure out natural resources. However, a new research suggests that explorers looking for ancient life on Mars could be misled by specimens that appear to be fossil...

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Over the years, businesses have increasingly turned to automation and robotics for undertaking many jobs. Since COVID-19 forced people to the confines of their homes, many enterprises introduced robots to perform tasks to help reduce human contact. From cleaning floors to disinfecting, the kind of tasks that robots can do has expanded manifold.

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The Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302, lies within our Milky Way galaxy between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away, in the constellation Scorpius. It has two “wings” of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit (19,982 degrees Celsius).

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While all heavy metals have formed under extreme conditions inside stars or due to stellar explosions and collision of neutron stars, the question remains: when and why was the material ejected and whether heavy elements can be produced in any other way.

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There has been a lot of debate on whether space-time travel through wormholes is possible or not. Most studies have suggested these hypothetical shortcuts are not possible as any passage of a vehicle through one would instantly lead to its collapse. However, a new theory says space-time travel through wormholes may be possible after all.

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Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in our solar system, has the most spectacular and complex ring system. Earth may soon have its own set of rings, according to researchers at the University of Utah, US.

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A Russian anti-satellite missile test has created a debris field in low-Earth orbit of more than 1,500 pieces of trackable orbital debris, forcing the astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to take shelter in their spacecraft for safety, the US said. This direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test has also likely generated thousands of smalle...

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An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space Station and will pose a hazard to space activities for years, US officials said.

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Artificial pancreases systems used as a DIY technique by patients suffering from Type 1 diabetes have received the first nod from healthcare experts.

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A new species of dinosaur has been discovered by a retired doctor in Britain. It has been named Brighstoneus Simmondsi.

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Researchers at the Linkoping University in Sweden have developed a way to store electric energy in plant roots. They hope it could pave the way for potential applications in energy, sensing, and robotics.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos plan to launch their joint Mars rover mission in 2022. It was earlier planned to take off in 2020, but got delayed for several reasons. The main cause behind the delay is that the journey from Earth to Mars is only attempted when the planets are favourably aligned.

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NASA is sending Snoopy, the iconic and adorable character from Peanuts, to the Moon aboard its first Artemis mission early next year. Snoopy became the world's first beagle to land on the lunar surface in the Peanuts comic strips by the late Charles M. Schulz in 1969.

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In a binary system a white dwarf gravitational pulls matter from its companion and then explodes.

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US businessman Glen de Vries, who flew into space with "Star Trek" actor William Shatner on last month's Blue Origin flight, has died in a plane crash, police said Friday.

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The Moon's layer of rocks, called regolith, contains enough oxygen to sustain human life. If a new study is to be believed, the Moon's surface has enough oxygen to keep 8 billion, or 800 crore people alive for around 1,00,000 years.

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A NASA expert explains if Earth is under any threat from an asteroid and how the space agency predicts chances of a collision.

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New observations suggest a celestial object tracking Earth's orbit just about 9 miles (14.5km) away from the planet is a fragment of the Moon. Astronomers say the fragment was tossed into space possibly after an ancient lunar collision.

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Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from ESA, arrived at the ISS and docked their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with the orbiting laboratory to begin a six-month science mission.

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NASA has planned to explore Venus via two missions in the early 2030s. One of them is VERITAS, which would orbit the planet. And the other, DAVINCI — Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry and Imaging — would launch a probe through the acrid Venus atmosphere to observe various parameters including whether it once had water.

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NASA scientists have found evidence for a new transiting circumbinary planet. The term refers to any planet which orbits around two different stars. The evidence was received using an unprecedented technique.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover said it has seen something “no one has ever seen.” In an update via Twitter, Perseverance said it scratched the Martian surface with a tool attached to its robotic arm while wandering around the Jezero Crater in search of evidence of interest to scientists. When it looked underneath the rock it found something that was surely never s...

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NASA and SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit en route to the International Space Station, including a veteran spacewalker and two younger crewmates chosen to join NASA's future lunar missions.

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NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has soared through the Red Planet's skies for the 15th time. The chopper, which arrived on Mars attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover, landed within the targeted zone on the Martian surface, said NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which manages the Ingenuity mission.

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NASA delayed putting astronauts back on the moon until 2025 at the earliest, missing the deadline set by the Trump administration.

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The Leonid meteor shower has been underway since November 6 but is set to peak around November 17. The Leonids appear to be originating from the constellation Leo. Considered to be a major meteor shower, the Leonids are best seen from a dark location but the light from a waxing gibbous Moon may interfere.

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NASA has shared an image of a nebula captured by its Hubble Space Telescope that looks like a deep tunnel in space. The nebula is formed by a dying star, named HD 44179, which has been shedding its outer layers for about 14,000 years.

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Heinz has produced a ketchup that is becoming popular for more than just its flavour. A team of 14 astrobiologists worked for months to achieve a similar feat — but on Earth. They worked at the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida Institute of Technology to grow these tomatoes in a controlled environment with soil, temperature, and water conditions similar to Mars.

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Virgin Galactic has sold around 100 tickets since flying its founder Richard Branson to space last summer, with commercial services expected to begin by the end of 2022, the company said in its financial results.

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A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth after a busy six months on the International Space Station landed off the coast of Florida, a NASA live broadcast showed.

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NASA's four-member SpaceX Crew-2 mission is targeting a return to Earth on Monday, November 8. The splashdown is expected to be off the coast of Florida, USA. The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, was earlier scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on November 7. NASA and SpaceX have six missions in the Commercial Crew Program.

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American space agency NASA has shared an image of Cat’s Paw Nebula, which is named so for the "large, round features that resemble a feline footprint".

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Dr. Kamal Ranadive is known for her contributions to the field of biology and her cancer research. Artist Ibrahim Rayintakath has created a Google Doodle on her 104th birthday. The biologist is responsible for opening India’s first tissue culture laboratory.

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People have taken to various activities to experience the joy of being outdoors – hiking or trekking, bird watching, wildlife safari, etc. One would wonder, can we experience even at night, when most of the world is sleeping? The simple answer is yes.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared stunning images of one of the biggest impact basins in the Solar System, located on Mars. Hellas, with a diameter of 1,430 miles (2,300km) and a depth of over 4.3 miles (7km), is believed to have formed between 3.8 billion and 4.1 billion years ago after a large asteroid hit the surface of Mars.

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Astronomers will get to see the longest lunar eclipse of this century this month. In two weeks from now, on November 19 (Kartik Purnima), Earth will pass between the Sun and Moon, creating a shadow on the Moon's surface.

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NASA is gearing up for the launch of its first planetary defence test, which will involve a spacecraft intentionally crashing into an asteroid to impact its trajectory. The US agency has filled the spacecraft with fuel, performed some final tests, and is running rehearsals for the final mission. Named Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission is set to take...

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Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and USGS was launched on September 27, 2021. It has now collected its first light images of Earth.

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Indian astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system in space, known as GRS 1915+105, using the AstroSat, the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission.

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A US court has rejected Blue Origin’s case against the US government objecting to NASA's decision to award a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Dune's Arrakis simulated by scientists suggests that American author Frank Herbert managed to create a very realistic planet without the help of computers and advanced climate modelling in the 1960s.

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With startup culture thriving in India and the need for ‘going local’ becoming increasingly popular, we take a look at all the hottest tech startups grabbing headlines in the country. Gadgets 360 talks to Srinath Ravichandran, co-founder and CEO, Agnikul Cosmos to know about the company’s history, growth, and future plans.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a new mission where human-made emissions of greenhouse gases will be tracked from space. ESA, in collaboration with the European Union's (EU) Earth-monitoring programme Copernicus, announced this mission during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow on November 2.

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Boston Dynamics and IBM have joined forces to deploy the popular — but controversial — robot dogs at the US National Grid sites for autonomous inspection. The Boston Dynamics robot, named Spot, will be integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) and other required features developed by IBM Research.

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NASA's International Space Station (ISS) saw its first harvest of crops on October 29. The agency shared a photo on Twitter and mentioned that the station's first harvest was chilli peppers. This harvest was a part of an ISS experiment, called Plant Habitat-04 study. Astronaut Megan McArthur, who is stationed at the ISS, posted another update about this feat.

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The latest edition of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, which began in Glasgow on October 31, has put the conversation around the global climate change crisis back in the spotlight. We took a look at how AI has been utilised by Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), a New Delhi-based NGO and major tech firms including Salesforce, Mi...

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NASA has shared a stunning image of a giant eye-shaped nebula that is among the brightest and closest to Earth. The image, captured by the agency's Spitzer Space Telescope, showed a deep vacuum surrounded by a sparkling cloud of dust and gas.

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Scientists may not be very far away from decoding the language of whales. An interdisciplinary group of scientists have started collecting data in order to use artificial intelligence (AI) to understand how whales communicate. The project has been named Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI).

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NASA has signed a pact with National Geographic to help tell the story of Artemis II, the mission which will return US astronauts to the Moon after decades. The first Artemis mission, likely to be launched in February, will be an uncrewed test mission.

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Researchers have named a new ancestral human species Homo Bodoensis that lived in Africa around half a million years ago.

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An intense X1-class solar flare is scheduled to hit the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, October 31, NASA has said.

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Twitter, which regularly tests new features ahead of their official rollout, has created a new way for some people to check out these new features before everyone else.

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As global companies prepare pledges to help stop climate change, one of the first problems they face is quantifying their emissions. The second is understanding if their solutions work.

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Researchers at TCS in India have come up with a new technology called DeepDraper that will allow consumers to virtually drape clothes on their 3D avatars to see how it wil look on them.

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The General Index, created by American archivist Carl Malamud, was released on October 7 and is free to use. The index holds over 355 billion sentence fragments and words listed next to articles in which they appear.

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More than a year after NASA launched the Perseverance rover for Mars, the space agency is bringing the focus back on how its precise landing spot was decided or who chose where it should land. In an Instagram post, NASA said that the rover made the decision moments before it touched down on the surface on February 18 this year.

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China has launched a military satellite that will test its “space debris mitigation technology," the state media reported earlier this week. The satellite was launched on Sunday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre, Sichuan province, Southwest China.

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Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has faced a new glitch and scientists have pulled it onto "safe mode". NASA says it is working to fix the problem.

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NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope has found hints of what could be the first planet discovered outside our Milky Way galaxy. The possible signal discovered is located in the Messier 51 galaxy, some 28 million light-years away from Earth.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announced it wants to launch a space station that will house up to 10 people in the second half of the decade, as the race to commercialise the cosmos heats up.

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After studying the fossils, found in a sag basin in southern Patagonia (Argentina, South America), scientists concluded that the occurrence of many fossils of dinosaurs at different life stages within a square kilometre suggests they lived in herds nearly 190 million years ago (the fossils have been dated to 192 million years ago).

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Major cities in India have been installing outdoor air purifiers in an effort to curb the air pollution issue in India. But research points out that the air quality in the country has been steadily decreasing. Gadgets 360 talked to air quality researchers and manufacturers of outdoor air purifiers to find out why.

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NASA has announced that it was now targeting to launch the Artemis 1, an uncrewed mission that will return the American space agency to the Moon after decades, in February 2022. The rescheduling of the launch has delayed the mission by at least three months as the ambitious programme was initially set to take off in November.

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NASA has shared a stunningly colourful image that shows a region in outer space where newborn stars are taking shape. It is splattered with hues of red and yellow, with twinkling stars dotting the region like diamonds and sparkling as the sun's rays pass through them. The American space agency said that this colourful star-forming region looks a bit like a seasonal co...

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Surgeons have successfully attached a pig kidney to a human in a breakthrough case of animal-to-human transplant.

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NASA said on Friday that it plans to launch the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 — the first step in US's plan to return humans to the Moon — in February 2022.

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NASA has shared an incredible image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two galaxies tied in sort of a cosmic dance.

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Researchers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University have developed PeLEDs that can make stretchable phone displays possible.

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Radiant's new technology is expected to enable people in remote and disaster areas with rapid supply of electricity as needed. The microreactors can be monitored remotely and centralised fueling, maintenance enable microgrids without any permanent impacts.

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What if a rock big enough to cause large-scale damage, say an asteroid, were to hit Earth? NASA asked one of its experts the question. Dr. Kelly Fast said it's important to find the asteroids “before they find us.” She, however, added there's no known threat to Earth.

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An augmented reality (AR) professional 3D-printed a full-scale Velociraptor for his daughter and went on to bring it to life (virtually). A video shared by Florent Germain on Twitter shows the results of this fun experiment.

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Vaping e-cigarettes may not be useful in helping people quit smoking, a recent research suggests. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had earlier suggested that smokers could switch from puffing cigarettes to vaping e-cigarettes if they were unable to quit smoking.

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Astronomers have observed an accreting white dwarf abruptly lose and gain its brightness for the first time. White dwarfs are stars that have run out of their basic fuel: hydrogen. Usually, researchers have observed white dwarfs losing their brightness over days or months. Astronomers were studying the white dwarf binary system, TW Pictoris, and the white dwarf in it ...

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NASA never stops surprising us with stunning images from outer space. In a new Instagram post, the space agency has released a new photo of Milky Way on October 19. The colourful image is a panorama of the Milky Way's galactic centre.

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Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth Sunday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.

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A meteorite, that pierced through the roof of a home in British Columbia, Canada narrowly missing a sleeping woman, has the potential of unravelling mysteries about our solar system.

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NASA's highly anticipated mission Lucy is scheduled to launch today at 0934 GMT (15:04 IST). The spacecraft leaving for Jupiter's Trojan asteroids will be on a 12-year journey to understand planetary origins.

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Virgin Galactic said it is delaying its commercial space travel service to the fourth quarter of 2022 and will not conduct another planned test flight this year.

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A moderately strong solar storm of G2 category hit Earth recently and created a spectacular light show for people in the US and other regions.

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European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a video clip on Instagram of an astronaut aboard ISS running on a treadmill in zero gravity. He used bungee ropes for keeping himself from flying away from the treadmill.

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NASA has introduced AstroBee robots to the world in a new post. These 'free-flying' robots help with the maintenance of the ISS and do chores that save astronauts time and energy.

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Mars is quite similar to Earth, as per a NASA scientist. In a video interview, astrobiologoist Dr. Becky McCauley Rench said that the Red Planet wasn't as dry always, as we see it today. As per NASA's own website, “Mars, like Earth, has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons, and weather.”

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A team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have come up with a bipedal robot that performs the twin function of walking and flying. Named Leonardo, the part-walking robot, part-flying drone is built in such a way that it can balance itself on a slackline, hop around, or even ride a skateboard.

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William Shatner — Star Trek’s Captain Kirk — did it for real, becoming at age 90 the oldest person in space aboard a rocketship flown by billionaire Jeff Bezos's company Blue Origin, an experience the actor called profound.

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A moderately strong solar storm of G2 category hit Earth recently and created a spectacular light show for people in the US and other regions.

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European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a video clip on Instagram of an astronaut aboard ISS running on a treadmill in zero gravity. He used bungee ropes for keeping himself from flying away from the treadmill.

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Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin is set to take William Shatner of Star Trek fame to space and back safely on October 13. Though the launch was pushed back by a day due to anticipated winds in Texas, it isn't holding Shatner's fans back from gearing up for the liftoff.

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The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 1,600 feet (500m) deep, 25 miles (40km) wide crater.

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Singapore now has robots on its streets to carry out safety-related surveillance of citizens. The patrol robots, named Xavier, have been programmed to roam around the streets of Singapore and detect “undesirable social behaviour.”

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Indian Space Association (ISpA), an industry body aspiring to be the voice of the country's space sector.

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Blue Origin announced it was delaying an upcoming flight set to carry actor William Shatner to space due to anticipated winds.

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NASA's upcoming mission to explore asteroids in order to learn about the earliest era of our solar system is ready to launch. The spacecraft named Lucy is expected to take off this week on a mission that is estimated to take 12 years.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually launch the Indian Space Association (ISpA) at 11am today, October 11. He will also interact with representatives of the space industry on the occasion.

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Chinese lunar mission Chang'e-5 brought back remnants of solidified lava that were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions, suggesting the moon cooled down later than thought.

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Chinese lunar mission Chang'e-5 brought back remnants of solidified lava that were 1 billion years younger than material acquired by other missions, suggesting the moon cooled down later than thought.

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SpaceX has now become the second most valued private company with a valuation of over $100 billion. It trails TikTok parent company ByteDance that is reportedly valued at over $140 billion.

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Germany's Benjamin List and David MacMillan of the US won the for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction.

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NASA will launch a mission this November to strike an asteroid that may pose a threat to Earth. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will be launched in order to prevent a hazardous asteroid from striking Earth.

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A Russian crew of two cosmonauts, a movie director, and an actress blasted off for the International Space Station to shoot the first movie in space, the latest twist in decades of Russia-US space rivalry.

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Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy for climate models and the understanding of physical systems.

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Researchers have now been able to reconstruct the faces of three men who lived in Egypt more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the DNA data extracted from their mummified remains, the researchers have created 3D models of the mummies' faces that show how they would have appeared at the age of 25 years.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) has put a special Barbie doll — modelled after European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti — in zero-gravity at a base in Germany to prepare it for the environment before heading off to space.

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SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew carried out medical research during their space mission, talked to their family back on Earth, and enjoyed the company of a xenomorph, like those seen in Aliens. But they also took time out to capture the breathtaking views of the Earth through the huge glass dome named “cupola” on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

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A giant comet is heading toward the solar system. The comet, named Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), was discovered earlier this year and will reach its closest approach to the Sun in 10 years from now, around 2031.

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ISRO's commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), has announced its first "demand-driven" satellite mission.

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Google-owned DeepMind has developed an AI-based weather forecasting system that can more accurately predict rain up to two hours ahead.

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Elon Musk in a recent interview took a fresh dig at Jeff Bezos saying that he should focus on reaching the orbit rather than filing lawsuits. Musk's comments were about Bezos' Blue Origin filing a case to block SpaceX's NASA moon lander contract.

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Swiss researchers have developed a king of wooden flooring that can generate electricity when a person walks on it.

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Data gathered by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests an increase in the wind speed in Jupiter's Great Red Spot.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered six early galaxies that were "dead" when the universe was about 3 billion years old.

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Dinosaurs roamed Earth millions of years ago but little was known about them outside the scientific community till the early 90s. Interesting details about these prehistoric reptiles are now being discovered after studying dinosaur fossils.

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NASA is developing an augmented reality (AR) application for astronauts to enable them to inspect and maintain equipment on the International Space Station (ISS) without needing assistance from ground control. This, the agency hopes, will reduce the impact of communication delays between the ISS crew and NASA mission control in Houston, Texas, US.

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William Shatner, 90, is reportedly going to become the oldest person to fly into space on board Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket. Shatner, who portrayed Captain James T. Kirk in the popular Star Trek franchise, is set to be part of the second crew to fly into space in the New Shepard capsule in July. Bezos and his team took the inaugural Blue Origin space flight and sp...

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Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, US, have designed electronic microchips that can fly. These flying microchips, or microfliers, are the size of a sand grain and can fly without any motor or engine.

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Google accused India's antitrust regulator in court of being a "habitual offender" by leaking confidential information of cases it was examining, an accusation the watchdog rejected.

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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)-led Team CoStar is set to participate in the Subterranean Challenge finals that are scheduled to be held this week. The challenge involves a demonstration of multi-robot autonomy in a series of tests in extreme environments. Details here.

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Infosys announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop quantum computing capabilities and use cases.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk delivered what no previous human missions to outer space could. The company took four civilian crew members to outer space in a spacecraft with no professional astronauts on board and returned them safely to Earth after three days. While the successful mission was an encouragement to others attempting something similar, the all-civilian crew faced...

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Scientists showed that the protein found in human blood could act as a binder for the soil available on Moon or Mars.

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A footprint of an extinct species of straight-tusked elephants that were wiped out in the last ice age has been discovered in Spain.

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NASA has picked Nobile Crater, a region of the Moon's south pole, to land an ice-seeking rover in 2023.

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A new study says the genetic capacity of the gut microbiome is also a significant factor that influences how much weight a person is likely to lose with simple lifestyle changes. The gut microbiome, having trillions of bacteria, fungi, and other microbes, plays a key role in digestion. It also benefits the immune system.

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Elon Musk has said in a tweet that the next space mission aboard a SpaceX vehicle will have a food warmer, but more importantly, free Wi-Fi.

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Spacetech startup Agnikul Cosmos has signed an MoU with Department of Space (DoS) for access to ISRO facilities and expertise to test rocket systems.

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SpaceX Dragon living quarters described in detail and what the Inspiration4 — the first civilian crew in Space — is up to.

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Chinese astronauts returned to Earth safely on Friday after their 90-day visit to an unfinished space station in the country's first crewed mission since 2016.

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SpaceX's all-civilian Inspiration4 crew spent their first day in orbit conducting scientific research and talking to children at a pediatric cancer hospital, after blasting off on their pioneering mission from Cape Canaveral the night before.

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Nagpur-based researchers have developed a small, affordable blood test device that can be easily transported to rural areas and improve access to healthcare.

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Australia's two most populous states are trialling facial recognition software that lets police check people are home during COVID-19 quarantine, expanding trials that have sparked controversy to the vast majority of the country's population.

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SpaceX's Inspiration4 is scheduled to take off on September 15 at 8:02pm EDT (5:32 am IST on September 16). The launch will be livestreamed on Netflix's YouTube channel and the stream will begin on 7pm EDT (4:30am IST on September 16). Inspiration4 will take four civilians onboard the Falcon 9 spacecraft, which will undertake a three-day mission to orbit the Earth. Ne...

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A new discovery in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) takes inspiration from one of the simplest marine creatures in the world — the sea slug. AI is in a constant state of growth, trying to improve and be more efficient. A simple sea slug has helped researchers break new grounds.

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NASA often shares images of the Earth and space that leaves social media users in awe. This time around, the space agency shared not one but four images of nebulae — star-forming gaseous clouds — on its official Instagram page.

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A Russian Soyuz rocket has blasted into space carrying 34 new satellites from British operator OneWeb, which aims to provide broadband Internet everywhere in the world.

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A new bioscience company called Colossal is planning to bring back species, such as the woolly mammoth, back from extinction using CRISPR gene-editing technology.

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A recent study regarding nutrition suggests that overeating may not be the main cause of obesity. The research was carried out by 17 internationally prominent scientists in the field and was published on September 13 in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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After Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson, it's time for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to join the league. Wozniak on September 13 announced that he is setting up a private space company that is “unlike the others.” The new company will be called Privateer Space and its mission would be to keep space safe and accessible to all humankind.

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SpaceX’s all-civilian crew mission to the Earth’s orbit dubbed Inspiration4 will launch on September 15 with four people on board.

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In a video on NASA's Instagram page, Dr. Lindsay Hays, an astrobiology expert, says this is a really interesting question — one that scientists have been trying to understand and explore for a really long time. Still, they have not been able to discover life on any other planet.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time, boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet.

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Scientists in Chile's Atacama Desert have unearthed the fossil remains of a so-called "flying dragon," a Jurassic-era dinosaur previously known only to the northern hemisphere.

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Researchers have discovered a new dinosaur species — a 'shark-toothed' theropod named Ulughbegsaurus — that is thought to have been the largest carnivorous predator of the time 90 million years ago.

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A study presented at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference says that the world could be forced to go offline for weeks or even months in the event of a severe solar storm that could occur within the next decade.

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A group of physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently achieved a feat that could pave the way for practical carbon-free power. The achievement was three years in the making . It is a result of intensive research and design work, project leaders say.

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The James Webb Space Telescope, which astronomers hope will herald a new era of discovery, will launch on December 18, NASA said.

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Altos Labs reportedly aims to find a way to rejuvenate cells in a lab that could ultimately lead to prolonging human life.This startup has reportedly attracted the attention of leading billionaires, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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Meet the members of Inspiration4, the crew of SpaceX's first all-civilian mission to space that could launch as soon as September 15.

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The European Space Agency has shared a new post on its Instagram featuring a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a rare celestial phenomenon - the formation of the Herbig-Haro objects.

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An asteroid named 2021 NY1 could come close to hitting the Earth this month. The asteroid has been classified as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It has also been classified as a near-Earth object owing to its predicted close pass by our planet.

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Singapore has started trialling robots to patrol public areas and deter poor social behaviour in its latest effort to further augment its strong portfolio of surveillance tools.

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NASA confirmed that its Perseverance Mars rover succeeded in collecting its first rock sample for scientists to pore over when a future mission eventually brings it back to Earth.

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Scientists say that it is nearly impossible to recreate dinosaurs because even DNA disintegrates after 7 million years while dinosaurs have been extinct for nearly 65 million years.

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Chandrayaan-2, India’s lunar spacecraft, has completed over 9,000 orbits around the Moon, ISRO announced Monday. Its imaging and scientific instruments are providing excellent data, as per officials.

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NASA’s Ingenuity was only supposed to fly five times as per plans. But the tiny copter, which has been on Mars for six months, has successfully completed 12 flights with retirement nowhere in sight.

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Emami Art will be holding an AI art exhibition with the works of Harshit Agrawal. The first of its kind in India, the exhibition will run from September 11 to September 30. More details here.

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Virgin Galactic launching its first commercial research mission named Unity 23 along with the Italian Air Force to the edge of space, it said.

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Virgin Galactic was barred by the US Federal Aviation Administration from flying its SpaceShipTwo until the agency approves its final mishap investigation report from its July flight or determines the issues do not affect public safety.

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NASA has shared skywatching tips in its latest Instagram post that can guide space enthusiasts to the noteworthy sights in the night sky through September.

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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has taken a swipe at Bezos' Blue Origin for hiring a high-profile strategic advisory firm after it lost a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,540 crores) NASA lunar lander contract to SpaceX. Without naming Bezos, Musk said the billionaire should “consider spending some money” on actual lunar lander hardware, instead of “shady lobbyists.”

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China has developed a prototype miniature helicopter for surveillance work on future Mars missions, according to CNSA.

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Scientists have long argued there could be a Planet Nine but a definite evidence is yet to be found. Critics assert that finding the planet is unrealistic. A new study by the US-based California Institute of Technology (Caltech) says if the planet is out there, it could be brighter, closer, and easier to find than previously thought.

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it is investigating a deviation in the descent of the flight of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane that carried British billionaire Richard Branson to the edge of space on July 11.

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Researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, US, have found a way to weave "smart clothing" that can monitor your heart. A snug athletic shirt was created with conductive carbon nanotube fibres that is said to be able to measure your heart rate efficiently and accurately.

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NASA has shared how its Mars rover Perseverance goes about collecting rock samples of the Red Planet.

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Researchers have developed a battery prototype that can store as much as six times the charge of a conventional lithium-ion battery. The discovery was published in the Nature journal.

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Elon Musk said that "of course" he is an alien, when a user posted an old video on Twitter where the SpaceX CEO was seeing pondering the age-old question: "Where are the aliens."

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A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados, and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday.

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Molecular Biology Consortium based at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) claims to have discovered an antibody that can neutralise all known SARS-CoV-2 strains, including the new mutants.

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Research have developed new receptor proteins that can potentially allow computers to read cells directly. Called NTERs, these can change the way we detect diseases or target therapeutics to specific areas in the body.

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The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has published a report that predicts the future of Directed Energy (DE) weapons and how these can be a part of the US military arsenal by 2060.

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Researchers from Osaka University say that the steak created in the lab bears great resemblance to that made from the world-renowned Wagyu beef cattle. To achieve this, the team isolated stem cells from Wagyu cows. These stem cells were then incubated and converted into muscle, fat, and blood vessel cells.

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A group of Stanford University researchers has developed rechargeable batteries that can store charge six times that of the lithium-ion batteries available at present. With the help of this new technology, users would have to recharge mobile devices only once a week and an electric vehicle would be able to cover six times more distance on a single recharge.

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A first-of-its-kind human study claims to have found a way to restore the sense of touch in a person who may have lost it due to an illness or injury. Scientists from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research said the procedure requires an electrode implant in the brain.

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Russia said it postponed its first mission to the Moon's surface in decades as a result of "problems" encountered during tests of the Luna-25 spacecraft.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are being developed nowadays to infer people's intentions and reactions by studying their facial expressions. But a new study says that such conjectures by AI cannot be very reliable.

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European Space Agency (ESA) has shared on Instagram a series of images of the Earth's aurora lights. The photos in question capture the stunning phenomenon while it lent hues of red and green to the sky. Check out the photos here.

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China has said its Zhurong Mars rover will continue exploring Utopia Planitia where it landed on May 14 after completing the initial 90-day program.

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Researchers have found that certain microbial communities found in the icy-cold waters off the coast of Labrador, Canada possess the ability to degrade diesel and crude oil. This can help mitigate the dangers of oil spills in the region.

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Researchers have discovered fossils of three unrecognised species of mammals that thrived during the early Puercan age or the post-dinosaur world.

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Elon Musk announced that Tesla is working on a humanoid project and it will present the first prototype “sometime next year.” Unveiling the robot called Tesla Bot at Tesla's AI Day event, Musk said it is intended to be friendly and will be able to perform “unsafe, repetitive, or boring” tasks.

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Starlink, a division of SpaceX, aims to roll out 12,000 satellites as part of a low-Earth orbiting network to provide low-latency broadband Internet services around the world, with a particular focus on remote areas that terrestrial Internet infrastructure struggles to reach.

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NASA agreed to temporarily halt work on lunar lander contract awarded to Elon Musk's SpaceX after rival billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin sued the US government, an agency spokeswoman said.

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A study of the Ophiuchus star-forming complex has offered new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born.

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Baldness can be a difficult situation to be in. Many have tried several over-the-counter remedies and failed to get desired results. Thanks to a new research, there could finally be a satisfactory solution to the problem. The research promises to reverse baldness using nanoparticles.

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Boston Dynamics owned by Hyundai has shared a new video of its robots showing off their parkour moves. Watch the full video here.

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A European Vega rocket lifted off from French Guiana carrying an Earth observation satellite and four miniature CubeSats.

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Blue Origin is suing the US government over its decision to award a massive Moon exploration contract to its competitor SpaceX, it said in a statement.

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The researchers also say that the processes that deliver large asteroids to Earth from that region occur at least 10 times more frequently than previously thought

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A team of Indian researchers has developed what appears to be a first-of-a-kind human authentication through teeth for mobile and other hand-held devices. The team says that the app acquires biometric samples using the camera on a mobile handset.

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SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the first orbital stack of the Starship rocket should be ready for flight in the coming weeks, taking the unorthodox billionaire a step closer to his dream of orbital and then interplanetary travel.

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NASA has shared a photo taken by the space agency's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. It prompts people to search for the Perseverance rover amid the vast expanse.

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Two spacecraft flew past Venus recently in a rare double flyby that captured unique imagery and data. You can watch the video here.

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Boeing and NASA officials said Friday that the Starliner capsule will be removed from the top of its rocket and returned to its Kennedy Space Center hangar for more extensive repairs.

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Two spacecraft flew past Venus recently in a rare double flyby that captured unique imagery and data. You can watch the video here.

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NASA has shared a photo taken by the space agency's Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. It prompts people to search for the Perseverance rover amid the vast expanse.

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Boeing and NASA officials said Friday that the Starliner capsule will be removed from the top of its rocket and returned to its Kennedy Space Center hangar for more extensive repairs.

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Researchers have developed a colour-changing robot that looks and functions just like a chameleon. The advancement could help develop artificial camouflage technology.

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It appears that China is ready to widen its horizon when it comes to Moon travel and is taking active steps to enable manned landing on the Moon. A brief news report published by the Xiamen University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on July 1 has pointed at the country aiming to develop a “human landing system for lunar missions.”

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Researchers say that the survival and evolution of sharks through multiple mass extinctions received little analytical attention. A new study has now attempted to shed some light on their evolution during the catastrophic event. The researchers studied the morphology of 1,239 fossil shark teeth to see how their diversity was affected during the mass extinction.

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ISRO suffered a setback while trying to put the GISAT-1 earth observation satellite into orbit, due to a technical anomaly minutes after the rocket carrying the satellite was launched in the early hours.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos flew out to space and stayed in zero gravity for a few minutes last month. After landing back on Earth, he thanked all Amazon customers for funding it. Little did he know this gesture of gratitude would majorly backfire. Many Amazon customers are now saying that they are against funding the private space trips of a billionaire.

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Boeing's troubled Starliner spaceship could be set for further delays after the company said it was working to solve problems with the propulsion system.

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Elon Musk is joining hands with a Canada-based startup to make advertising in space a reality. According to reports, the tech billionaire and the startup are working towards putting a billboard into low-Earth orbit. By next year, the team is aiming to send a satellite into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will enable advertising content to be beamed from Ear...

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Researchers have developed a colour-changing robot that looks and functions just like a chameleon. The advancement could help develop artificial camouflage technology.

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It appears that China is ready to widen its horizon when it comes to Moon travel and is taking active steps to enable manned landing on the Moon. A brief news report published by the Xiamen University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics on July 1 has pointed at the country aiming to develop a “human landing system for lunar missions.”

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Researchers say that the survival and evolution of sharks through multiple mass extinctions received little analytical attention. A new study has now attempted to shed some light on their evolution during the catastrophic event. The researchers studied the morphology of 1,239 fossil shark teeth to see how their diversity was affected during the mass extinction.

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ISRO suffered a setback while trying to put the GISAT-1 earth observation satellite into orbit, due to a technical anomaly minutes after the rocket carrying the satellite was launched in the early hours.

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Elon Musk on Tuesday said his aerospace company SpaceX could help NASA produce spacesuits for its Artemis Moon mission after the US space agency's Inspector General reported that it was facing significant challenges, making the manned lunar landing impossible in 2024

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A team of engineers at MIT and Harvard University has designed a small device that can detect and report SARS-CoV-2 from a saliva sample within an hour. The study also demonstrates that the test is as accurate as a PCR test.

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Boeing said it was assessing multiple dates this month for the launch of its CST-100 Starliner space capsule to the International Space Station.

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NASA has shared an image of the Sahara Desert on its Instagram captured from the International Space Station by astronaut Shane Kimbrough.

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NASA has shared a picture of the moon. The 'false-colour mosaic' was constructed from a series of 53 images captured by the Galileo spacecraft.

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Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson, on Thursday, announced that it was restarting sale of its space fight tickets now priced at $450,000 (roughly Rs. 3 crores).

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A team of researchers have created a programme that can generate fabrication blueprints and CAD models of furniture pieces with just its images. The CAD models can also be altered in different specifications using the algorithm.

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, took to Twitter to announce that his second biography is being written by Walter Isaacson. The author is known for his stellar Apple chief Steve Jobs’ biography and is also a professor at Tulane University.

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The image, glittering with stars right above the Southeast African coast, reminds us that we are all made of stars. The picture was captured by one of the ISS crew members while flying in the space station at an altitude of 423 km.

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During Cassie's 5 km run, which the robot completed in 53 minutes and 3 seconds, 6-1/2 minutes were spent on resetting after it fell twice.

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NASA has shared a stunning new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows a portion of a large galaxy census known as the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (Goods).

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Boeing delayed a key test flight of its Starliner astronaut capsule to the International Space Station two hours before liftoff on Tuesday.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a trio of galaxies — part of the Arp 195 — engaged in a gravitational tug-of-war.

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NASA has shared a beautiful image of Cas A, the remnant of a massive star that exploded about 300 years ago, on its Instagram. The picture justifies the title picked by the space agency, which called it 'A Kaleidoscope of Colour'.

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Russia has said that a software glitch and a possible lapse in human attention led to the incident that caused the International Space Station to pitch out of its normal flight position 250 miles above the Earth with seven crew members aboard. Russian cosmonauts gave a video tour of the interior of a research module, which briefly threw thes International Space Statio...

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A group of Czech scientists decided to give these machines the ability to figure out suspicious behaviour. They claim to have developed a surveillance system that analyses drone footage in a way similar to the human brain.

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NASA has shared a picture of the moon. The 'false-colour mosaic' was constructed from a series of 53 images captured by the Galileo spacecraft.

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A team of researchers have created a programme that can generate fabrication blueprints and CAD models of furniture pieces with just its images. The CAD models can also be altered in different specifications using the algorithm.

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Although quantum computing is a popular buzzword, one fact that’s often understated is that as this new branch of computing develops, skilled expertise will be critical in making the most of this opportunity. IBM India and top-tier institutions in India are collaborating to skill the youth in quantum computing. Gadgets 360 caught up with stakeholders to understand w...

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Virgin Galactic, founded by Richard Branson, on Thursday, announced that it was restarting sale of its space fight tickets now priced at $450,000 (roughly Rs. 3 crores).

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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, took to Twitter to announce that his second biography is being written by Walter Isaacson. The author is known for his stellar Apple chief Steve Jobs’ biography and is also a professor at Tulane University.

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The image, glittering with stars right above the Southeast African coast, reminds us that we are all made of stars. The picture was captured by one of the ISS crew members while flying in the space station at an altitude of 423 km.

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During Cassie's 5 km run, which the robot completed in 53 minutes and 3 seconds, 6-1/2 minutes were spent on resetting after it fell twice.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a trio of galaxies — part of the Arp 195 — engaged in a gravitational tug-of-war.

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NASA has shared a beautiful image of Cas A, the remnant of a massive star that exploded about 300 years ago, on its Instagram. The picture justifies the title picked by the space agency, which called it 'A Kaleidoscope of Colour'.

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Russia has said that a software glitch and a possible lapse in human attention led to the incident that caused the International Space Station to pitch out of its normal flight position 250 miles above the Earth with seven crew members aboard. Russian cosmonauts gave a video tour of the interior of a research module, which briefly threw thes International Space Statio...

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Researchers have now been able to see light being ejected from behind a supermassive black hole, 800 million light-years away from Earth. These light waves — called "echoes" — were detected in the form of X-rays, according to a study published in the Nature journal.

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A team of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that obese mice, treated with the cytokine (a category of proteins) known as TSLP, reported significant fat and weight loss. Described as an "unforeseen finding," researchers also said that the fat loss was in no way related to decreased food intake or faster meta...

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A US government watchdog sided with NASA over its decision to pick a single lunar lander provider, rejecting a protest filed by Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics.

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The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said.

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The 2020 Summer Olympics is currently underway in Tokyo, Japan, and NASA has posted a stunning night view of Tokyo city on Instagram, taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The picture shows the city in all its glory as the games unfolded.

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NASA has shared a stunning new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows a portion of a large galaxy census known as the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (Goods).

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Boeing delayed a key test flight of its Starliner astronaut capsule to the International Space Station two hours before liftoff on Tuesday.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a trio of galaxies — part of the Arp 195 — engaged in a gravitational tug-of-war.

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NASA has shared a beautiful image of Cas A, the remnant of a massive star that exploded about 300 years ago, on its Instagram. The picture justifies the title picked by the space agency, which called it 'A Kaleidoscope of Colour'.

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Russia has said that a software glitch and a possible lapse in human attention led to the incident that caused the International Space Station to pitch out of its normal flight position 250 miles above the Earth with seven crew members aboard. Russian cosmonauts gave a video tour of the interior of a research module, which briefly threw thes International Space Statio...

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Researchers have now been able to see light being ejected from behind a supermassive black hole, 800 million light-years away from Earth. These light waves — called "echoes" — were detected in the form of X-rays, according to a study published in the Nature journal.

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A team of researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has discovered that obese mice, treated with the cytokine (a category of proteins) known as TSLP, reported significant fat and weight loss. Described as an "unforeseen finding," researchers also said that the fat loss was in no way related to decreased food intake or faster meta...

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A US government watchdog sided with NASA over its decision to pick a single lunar lander provider, rejecting a protest filed by Blue Origin and defence contractor Dynetics.

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The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said.

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The 2020 Summer Olympics is currently underway in Tokyo, Japan, and NASA has posted a stunning night view of Tokyo city on Instagram, taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The picture shows the city in all its glory as the games unfolded.

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Astronomers have found the first evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System. They believe Ganymede may hold more water than all of Earth's oceans.

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Jeff Bezos offered to cover up to $2 billion (roughly Rs. 14,890 crores) in NASA costs if the US space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the Moon.

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Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a snake-like robot that can burrow into the sand and navigate underground.

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DeepMind, an artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary of Google parent Alphabet, said it has been successful in predicting the shape of nearly every protein in the human body as well as thousands of other proteins found in 20 additional organisms that scientists rely on for their research, including yeast, fruit flies, and mice.

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is all set to make its tenth flight on Mars and officials said that it could happen on July 24. Ingenuity, which arrived on the Red Planet aboard the Mars Perseverance rover on February 18, is the first to have flown on a terrestrial planet other than Earth.

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Oliver Daemen, the Dutch teenager who became the world's youngest space traveller this week surprised billionaire Jeff Bezos on the flight by telling him he'd never ordered anything on Amazon.

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SpaceX was awarded a $178-million (roughly Rs. 1,325 crores) launch services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa and whether it may host conditions suitable for life, the space agency said.

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