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NASA has told Elon Musk's SpaceX to halt work under a contract it won to develop a lunar spacecraft, pending the outcome of challenges by rival bidders at the US Government Accountability Office, the agency said.

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SeasonWatch is a citizen science project aimed at understanding the seasonality of trees, and the effects of climate change on this seasonality, across India. Students from more than 1200 schools and more than 1100 interested individuals contribute weekly information on tree species that are commonly found across the country.

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Scientists have resolved a long standing mystery about extinct horned crocodiles from Madagascar, placing them in the same branch as modern day true crocodiles.

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The International Space Station shared a collection of photographs as of the supermoon taken from the ISS as it was orbiting above the Earth.

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The image shows a giant planet outside the Solar System feeding off material surrounding a young star.

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NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter missed its fourth scheduled flight on Thursday, with the space agency blaming a software glitch and vowing to try again the next day.

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The team has developed an AI technique to restore photos that have been degraded.

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A start-up founded by the alumni of the IIT-Madras has perhaps developed a method to 3D-print greener buildings using local soil.

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An astrophotographer captured the ‘difficult shot’ of the Moon, International Space Station and overpowering sunbeam from his ‘backyard’

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Michael Collins, the third American astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon along with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, passed away on Wednesday, and was paid tribute to by NASA.

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it had voted to approve a SpaceX plan to deploy some Starlink satellites at a lower Earth orbit than planned as part of its push to offer space-based broadband Internet.

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NASA has made a new discovery that it expects to be a major step towards understanding how some giant stars explode. It has shared a new image of remnants of a famous supernova that has led to the new findings.

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Blue Origin, the space rocket company backed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is formally challenging the $2.9-billion (roughly Rs. 21,650 crore) Moon lander contract awarded by NASA to rival Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a data relay satellite that will help maintain contact with the Gaganyaan mission throughout after the launch, sources said.

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NASA's mini helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday successfully completed its third flight on Mars, moving farther and faster than ever before, with a peak speed of 6.6 feet per second.

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NASA has shared a beautiful picture of a blue star to mark the 31st birthday of its Hubble Space Telescope. Called AG Carinae, it is located approximately 20,000 light-years away and is not just a luminous dot in the sky, but a glowing gas-and-dust nebula waging a battle within itself to avoid self-destruction.

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Four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule Endeavour propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket by a have safely arrived at the International Space Station (ISS). This makes them the first crew ever to be propelled into orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight.

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Palaeontologists in Chile have announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaurs in the country's Atacama Desert. The Arackar Licanantay belongs to the gigantic titanosaur dinosaur family.

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Barney is a bit different from your usual Swiss bartender. He is fully automated, mixes dozens of cocktails and even makes terrible jokes. Developer F&P Robotics says it is seeing rising interest in The Barney Bar and hopes it will be a hit among hotels, bars, and shopping centres looking to reduce human contact during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

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Thanks to a Twitter user’s revelation earlier this week, we’ve learnt that Elon Musk had struggled finding a job at an Internet company in the 90s, and tried and failed to get a position at startup Netscape in 1995.

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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Instagram account has shared a post with a stunning image of “interacting galaxies Arp 273”. The group of spiral galaxies seems to have created a shape resembling a “cosmic rose”.

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SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station has been postponed by a day due to weather concerns downrange of the launch site, NASA said.

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NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said.

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Google Search for ‘Ingenuity NASA’ is treating users a lively new animation. The Mars helicopter successfully completed the first controlled flight on another planet on Monday, April 19 creating history.

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Russian space agency Roscosmos said it hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025 as Moscow considers withdrawing from the International Space Station programme to go it alone.

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Researchers say the characteristics are similar to that of stegosaur footprints, with three short, wide and round toe impressions

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China's space port of Wenchang will build a $3-billion (roughly Rs. 22,490 crores) supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media.

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Amazon said it had secured nine satellite launch vehicles from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to support the initial deployment of its broadband Internet initiative, Project Kuiper.

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A team of researchers at University of California Santa Cruz roasted samples of space rocks to analyse the gases released and have a better understating of the early atmosphere of rocky alien planets.

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NASA Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew on Mars on Monday, according to data and images sent back to Earth. A short clip sent back by the Perseverance rover showed the chopper grounded at first, hovering three meters above the Martian surface, then touching back down.

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Godzilla Shark, a monster shark whose fossilised skeleton was discovered in New Mexico in 2013, has been named ‘Dracopristis Hoffmanorum’, or ‘Hoffman’s Dragon Shark’, by researchers. The fossils of the 6.7-foot-long shark that lived 300 million years ago were unearthed during a dig at the Manzano Mountains, about 50km from Albuquerque in New Mexico, by a gr...

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will attempt its first flight on the Red Planet on Monday. The space agency had originally planned the flight for April 11 but postponed it over a software issue that was identified during a planned high-speed test of the aircraft's rotors.

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Vera Gedroits is being honoured by a Google Doodle on the occasion of her 151st birth anniversary, on April 19, 2021. The Russian surgeon and professor, who was also an author and poet, was thanked by Google for taking forward the world of medicine.

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A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday revealed that Indian jumping ants possess the ability to increase and shrink their brain size.

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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying spiders using artificial intelligence have shared the characteristic reverberating tune of a spiderweb. Research say that spiders use vibrations to “communicate with the environment”.

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NASA has shared new pictures of the Earth’s natural systems as seen from the International Space Station (ISS) on Instagram. NASA wrote that the photos showed the natural systems of land, water, ice, and air “connecting to each other” to bring life on the planet.

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Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has secured a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,616 crores) contract from NASA to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the space agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics.

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NASA and Elon Musk's commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station early on Friday, the first crew ever propelled toward orbit by a rocket booster recycled from a previous spaceflight.

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Barney is a bit different from your usual Swiss bartender. He is fully automated, mixes dozens of cocktails and even makes terrible jokes. Developer F&P Robotics says it is seeing rising interest in The Barney Bar and hopes it will be a hit among hotels, bars, and shopping centres looking to reduce human contact during and after the coronavirus pandemic.

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Thanks to a Twitter user’s revelation earlier this week, we’ve learnt that Elon Musk had struggled finding a job at an Internet company in the 90s, and tried and failed to get a position at startup Netscape in 1995.

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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Instagram account has shared a post with a stunning image of “interacting galaxies Arp 273”. The group of spiral galaxies seems to have created a shape resembling a “cosmic rose”.

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SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station has been postponed by a day due to weather concerns downrange of the launch site, NASA said.

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NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said.

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Google Search for ‘Ingenuity NASA’ is treating users a lively new animation. The Mars helicopter successfully completed the first controlled flight on another planet on Monday, April 19 creating history.

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Russian space agency Roscosmos said it hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025 as Moscow considers withdrawing from the International Space Station programme to go it alone.

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Researchers say the characteristics are similar to that of stegosaur footprints, with three short, wide and round toe impressions

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China's space port of Wenchang will build a $3-billion (roughly Rs. 22,490 crores) supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media.

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Amazon said it had secured nine satellite launch vehicles from United Launch Alliance (ULA) to support the initial deployment of its broadband Internet initiative, Project Kuiper.

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A team of researchers at University of California Santa Cruz roasted samples of space rocks to analyse the gases released and have a better understating of the early atmosphere of rocky alien planets.

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NASA Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew on Mars on Monday, according to data and images sent back to Earth. A short clip sent back by the Perseverance rover showed the chopper grounded at first, hovering three meters above the Martian surface, then touching back down.

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Godzilla Shark, a monster shark whose fossilised skeleton was discovered in New Mexico in 2013, has been named ‘Dracopristis Hoffmanorum’, or ‘Hoffman’s Dragon Shark’, by researchers. The fossils of the 6.7-foot-long shark that lived 300 million years ago were unearthed during a dig at the Manzano Mountains, about 50km from Albuquerque in New Mexico, by a gr...

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will attempt its first flight on the Red Planet on Monday. The space agency had originally planned the flight for April 11 but postponed it over a software issue that was identified during a planned high-speed test of the aircraft's rotors.

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Vera Gedroits is being honoured by a Google Doodle on the occasion of her 151st birth anniversary, on April 19, 2021. The Russian surgeon and professor, who was also an author and poet, was thanked by Google for taking forward the world of medicine.

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A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday revealed that Indian jumping ants possess the ability to increase and shrink their brain size.

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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying spiders using artificial intelligence have shared the characteristic reverberating tune of a spiderweb. Research say that spiders use vibrations to “communicate with the environment”.

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NASA has shared new pictures of the Earth’s natural systems as seen from the International Space Station (ISS) on Instagram. NASA wrote that the photos showed the natural systems of land, water, ice, and air “connecting to each other” to bring life on the planet.

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Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has secured a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,616 crores) contract from NASA to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the space agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics.

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A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Wednesday revealed that Indian jumping ants possess the ability to increase and shrink their brain size.

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A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) studying spiders using artificial intelligence have shared the characteristic reverberating tune of a spiderweb. Research say that spiders use vibrations to “communicate with the environment”.

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NASA has shared new pictures of the Earth’s natural systems as seen from the International Space Station (ISS) on Instagram. NASA wrote that the photos showed the natural systems of land, water, ice, and air “connecting to each other” to bring life on the planet.

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Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has secured a $2.9 billion (roughly Rs. 21,616 crores) contract from NASA to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the space agency said on Friday, picking it over Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics.

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NASA helicopter, dubbed the Ingenuity, placed on Mars could take its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful initial test of its rotors, the US space agency said Friday. This will be the first-ever attempt at a powered, controlled flight on another planet.

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A three-man crew with US and Russian astronauts docked at the International Space Station after a flight honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space.

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Neuralink aims to make using computers and smartphones easier for people with disabilities through brain-machine interface.

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Europe's giant LOFAR radio telescope has detected stars being born in tens of thousands of distant galaxies with unprecedented precision.

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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has been dropped on the surface of Mars in preparation for its first flight, the US space agency said.

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