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London, March 16 (ANI): New calculations have suggested that a hurtling star is on its path to enter our solar system in about 1.5 million years, scattering millions of comets into paths that cross Earth’s orbit.
According to a report in New Scientist, Vadim Bobylev of the Pulkovo Observatory in St Petersburg, Russia, modelled the paths [...]

London, September 18 (ANI): European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Planck spacecraft has obtained its first peek at the afterglow of the big bang, revealing it in unprecedented detail.

The ESA spacecraft was launched into space on May 14 this year. It is observing the glow of hot gas [...]

Washington, September 16 (ANI): Observations by the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Venus Express mission have provided strong new evidence that the solar wind has stripped away significant quantities of water from Earth’s twin planet Venus.

The SPICAV and VIRTIS instruments carried by the spacecraft have been used to measure concentrations of water vapor in the Venusian [...]

Washington, September 12 (ANI): Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven astronauts has returned to Earth after a successful mission called STS-128, in which the team delivered two refrigerator-sized science racks to the International Space Station (ISS).

One rack will be used to conduct experiments on materials such as metals, glasses and ceramics.

The results [...]

Washington, September 7 (ANI): NASA astronauts aboard the US space shuttle Discovery have said that the smell of space, which is regarded as the final frontier, is strong, metallic and unique.

“There is one smell up here that is really unique though and that is the smell, we just call it ‘the smell of space’,” said [...]

London, Aug 30 (ANI): British space scientists have designed a special spacecraft that can save the earth from a catastrophic asteroid collision.

The 10 tonne spacecraft named “gravity tractor” would be deployed to intercept an asteroid en route to the earth and has the ability to fly 160 ft alongside it.

Once near an asteroid the [...]

Washington, August 29 (ANI): NASA’s space shuttle Discovery, with its seven-member crew, launched successfully from the space agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 28.

The shuttle will deliver supplies, equipment and a new crew member to the International Space Station.

Inside the shuttle’s cargo bay is the Leonardo Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, a pressurized “moving [...]

Washington, July 14 (ANI): A six-man international crew has completed a 105-day Mars simulation mission that was full of realistic scenarios, with experiments evaluating solutions to conditions that impact work performance.

The experiment was carried out in an isolation chamber in Moscow from March 31 to July 14.

The crew, composed of four Russians and two [...]

Washington, July 10 (ANI): Astronomers at the Chandra X-ray Observatory have spotted a galaxy collision in action, with one galaxy passing through the core of other galaxies at almost 2 million miles per hour.

The image obtained is of Stephan’s Quintet, a compact group of galaxies discovered about 130 years ago and located about 280 million [...]

London, July 2 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered a new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun.

Astronomers made the finding in a distant galaxy approximately 290 million light years from Earth.

Until now, identified black holes have been either super-massive in the centre of galaxies, or about [...]

London, June 27 (ANI): A new hypothesis has suggested that Mars may have a water table hidden underground, despite satellite data suggesting otherwise.

Today the small amount of water detected on the planet is locked in the polar ice caps, but recently discovered geological features suggest [...]

Paris, June 23 (ANI): ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Frank De Winne, in a live link-up with the ISS (International Space Station), scheduled for September 21, will perform a simple experiment in space to demonstrate the effects of freefall.

The event is enabled by ESA’s Directorate [...]

Paris, June 20 (ANI): Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever flown, has obtained images of the famous ‘whirlpool galaxy’ for a first test observation.

European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Herschel opened its ‘eyes’ on June 14 and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, which is popularly dubbed the ‘whirlpool galaxy’. [...]

Washington, May 30 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the Sun is slowly stealing Earth’s atmosphere, with our planet’s main solar defense acting as a double agent, aiding and abetting the thievery.

According to a report in National Geographic News, typically hailed as a protective buffer from the sun’s brute power, Earth’s magnetosphere is [...]

Paris, May 28 (ANI): Astronomers have used new data from ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, to probe closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.

The galaxy – known as 1H0707-495 – was observed during four 48-hr-long orbits of XMM-Newton around Earth, [...]

Moscow – It’s about to get a lot more crowded on the International Space Station. A Soyuz spacecraft to launch Wednesday will bring three new crew members to the ISS, doubling the size of the permanent crew.
The Russian Soyuz is to launch at 1034 GMT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying three more astronauts [...]

Moscow, May 27 (RIA Novosti) A Russian Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched Wednesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, the mission control said.
“The craft is due to dock with the ISS May 29,” a spokesperson said.
The 20th Expedition to the ISS comprises flight engineer Frank [...]

Moscow, May 22 (RIA Novosti) A Russian Meridian 2 military satellite was put into orbit Friday by a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket launched from Plesetsk space centre in north of the country, an aide to the Russian Space Forces commander said.
The Meridian-series communication satellites are designed to replace the older Molniya-series spacecraft and in addition to [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): The Herschel and Planck spacecraft have successfully blasted into space on May 14 from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, in a mission to unlock the secrets of the Universe.

The European Space Agency (ESA) missions, with significant participation from NASA, hitched a ride together on an Ariane 5 rocket, but [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): A team of private racketeers from Italy is planning to send robots to the Moon by the year 2012, which would resemble skittering spiders or crabs that could deploy as a swarm of mobile cameras and sensors on both legs and wheels.

According to a report by Fox News, the team is [...]