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Newest members to join the ISS family, Expedition 52 crew safely arrives at space station!

The new Expedition 52 crew members will spend more than four months conducting approximately 250 science investigations in fields such as biology, Earth science, human research, physical sciences and technology development.

Jul 29, 2017, 12:30 PM IST

New three-member crew set for launch to International Space Station today – Watch LIVE

The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft carrying the new crew is scheduled to lift off on July 28, 2017, at 11:41 a.m. (9:41 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Jul 28, 2017, 09:34 AM IST

Three crew members set for launch to International Space Station on Friday

Live coverage of the launch will begin at 10:45 a.m. EDT on NASA Television and the agency’s website.

Jul 27, 2017, 10:34 AM IST

Mission to discover alien life receives go-ahead from ESA

Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) mission will be launched into the 'L2' virtual point in space - 1.5 million kilometres beyond the Earth, as seen from the Sun - and will monitor thousands of bright stars over a large area of the sky.

Jun 22, 2017, 13:41 PM IST

Rapid surge of Arctic glacier detected by ESA satellites

This latest jump in speed began in July 2016 and has been climbing ever since – even over the cold winter months.

May 13, 2017, 21:43 PM IST

NASA's Hubble telescope captures galaxy duo by the 'Hare'

NASA has released a beautiful image of the unusual galaxy IRAS 06076-2139, found in the constellation Lepus (The Hare).

May 13, 2017, 00:51 AM IST

ESA's spacecraft set to observe mysterious dark matter

NASA has delivered three detector for the spacecraft's near-infrared instrument.

May 10, 2017, 16:16 PM IST

NASA's Hubble telescope captures massive galaxy cluster 6 billion light years away

The Hubble telescope helped show that this arc is composed of two distorted images of an ordinary spiral galaxy that just happens to lie behind the cluster.

May 06, 2017, 22:28 PM IST

Village on the moon – China in talks with European Space Agency

China is in talks with the European Space Agency (ESA) about making a village on the moon and the idea could soon materialize.

Apr 26, 2017, 13:58 PM IST

Two-member crew head to space station aboard Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft – Watch liftoff

NASA astronaut Jack Fischer and his Expedition 51-52 crewmate Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin are on the docket for this flight, scheduled for take off at 3:13 a.m. EDT Thursday, April 20 (1:13 p.m. Baikonur time), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft. 

Apr 20, 2017, 10:35 AM IST

ESA's Jupiter mission set to launch in 2022

With arrival in the Jovian system in 2029, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer ? Juice - will spend three-and-a-half years examining Jupiter, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

Mar 20, 2017, 19:25 PM IST

NASA teams up with ESA to send humans to Moon by 2021

The European Space Agency (ESA) and aerospace company Airbus have agreed with NASA to build a module for a second, manned mission that will fly around the moon as early as 2021, which will be launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.

 

Feb 10, 2017, 14:16 PM IST

ISS astronaut Thomas Pesquet is missing the outdoors and skiing! - His pics say it all

Pesquet's most recent posts speak of how he's missing the outdoors, the activities, most particularly, skiing.

Jan 29, 2017, 23:25 PM IST

ESA astronaut Tim Peake's capsule on permanent display at Science Museum; future ISS mission announced!

Jan Woerner, director of the European Space Agency, also confirmed that the British astronaut would be returning in the near future.

Jan 26, 2017, 19:05 PM IST

Clocks 'failed' onboard Europe's navigation satellites: ESA

Three rubidium and six hydrogen maser clocks are not working.

Jan 18, 2017, 19:34 PM IST

ISS astronaut Thomas Pesquet gets his eye pressure measured 'all in the name of science'!

With the latest photograph Thomas Pesquet just shared, just goes to show the energy they put into their work to help the world develop.

Jan 17, 2017, 00:32 AM IST

ISS astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet gear up for second spacewalk of 2017 to be performed on January 13!

The second phase of the spacewalk is going to be staged on Thursday, January 13 and will be once again performed by astronaut Shane Kimbrough and joining him this time, would be ESA astronaut/flight engineer Thomas Pesquet.

Jan 11, 2017, 18:25 PM IST

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough does a 'George Clooney'; ESA's Thomas Pesquet captures moment!

The photograph Pesquet shared on his official Twitter page says it all!  

Dec 23, 2016, 11:10 AM IST

Europe gives nod to 1.4 billion euros for Mars rover, ISS: European Space Agency

Europe has approved an extra 1.4 billion euros (USD 1.5 billion) today to resuscitate a life-seeking Mars rover project and keep its place on the ISS.

Dec 02, 2016, 20:56 PM IST

Schiaparelli Mars Lander probably crashed due to sensor failure, says ESA

Announcing the preliminary finding in a report released November 23, ESA said a sensor failure led to malfunction and the crash of the Mars lander.

Nov 24, 2016, 12:58 PM IST