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Washington: If planets had personalities, Mars would be a rock star, according to preliminary results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Mars sports a "Mohawk" of escaping atmospheric particles at its poles, "wears" a layer of metal particles…
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Washington: NASA is set to temporarily lose contact with its Mars rovers - Opportunity and Curiosity - as the red planet hides almost directly behind the Sun from Earth's perspective. The arrangement of the Sun between Earth and Mars is…
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New York: An antidepressant and a heart drug approved for use in humans may also help treat the deadly Ebola disease, a new study in mice suggests. Researchers screened about 2,600 compounds for their ability to hinder Ebola's activity,…
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Washington: NASA has placed an order with Boeing for the first operational mission to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station in 2017. The Commercial Crew Programme ordered its first crew rotation mission from The Boeing…
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Washington: NASA is testing a stationary car-sized Mars lander scheduled to launch in March 2016, that will be the first mission devoted to understanding the interior structure of the Red planet. Examining the planet's deep interior could…
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Washington: Humans have always fantasised of "little green men" from Mars, and scientists have now come up with a new way to search for traces of alien life on the red planet. Visits to Mars by unmanned probes from NASA and the European…
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Toronto: Mercury's magnetic field is almost four billion years old, according to new data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft that smashed into the planet a week ago. The discovery helps scientists piece together the history of Mercury, the…
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WASHINGTON: An asteroid will safely pass about three times the distance of Earth to the Moon on January 26, according to NASA. From its reflected brightness, astronomers estimate that the asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, is about 0.5…
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Washington: NASA's venerable Kepler space telescope's count of exoplanets has passed the magic 1,000 mark, including eight new planets and 544 candidate planets. Of more than 1,000 verified planets found, eight are less than twice…
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Washington: NASA researchers are developing robots to explore crevices of volcanoes where humans can not go in order to gain new insights about these wondrous geological features. Carolyn Parcheta, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Jet…
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