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WASHINGTON (TIP): NASA‘s New Horizons spacecraft, set to fly by the Pluto system on July 14, has sent its first color image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon Charon. “The image reveals tantalising […]

Nasa‘s Curiosity rover has found that water can exist as a liquid near the Martian surface. Mars should be too cold to support liquid water at the surface, but salts in the soil lower its […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Signs of alien life will be detected by 2025, while “definitive evidence” of extra-terrestrial beings may be found within the next 20 to 30 years, top Nasa scientists say. “I think we’re going […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa‘s Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said. By drilling into […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Nasa‘s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has observed mysterious high-altitude dust cloud and aurora that reaches deep into the Martian atmosphere. The presence of the dust at orbital altitudes from 150 […]

CAPE CANAVERAL (TIP): NASA launched four identical spacecraft Thursday on a billion-dollar mission to study the explosive give-and-take of the Earth and sun’s magnetic fields. The unmanned Atlas rocket — and NASA’s NASA — soared […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Contrary to earlier visualisations, the sun’s heliosphere is dominated by two giant jets of material shooting backwards over the north and south poles of the sun. The heliosphere is created by the solar […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): Using a new instrument developed with Indian collaboration, Nasa astronomers have discovered a planet 136 light-years away which is attached to four parent stars. They also discovered another planet in the care […]