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Now, airless tyres for vehicles on Moon!

NASA and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have been honored with an R&D 100 Award, billed as the Oscars of Innovation for an airless tyre capable of transporting large, long-range vehicles across th

Humanoid to walk on Moon within 1000 days, say NASA

London: NASA has unveiled a plan to send a humanoid robot to the Moon in just 1,000 days for a fraction of the cost of sending a human.

The plan would cost less than 200million dollars, plus 250milli

Nasa plans to send astronauts to Mars

Oct. 28: It might sound like Hollywood science fiction, but Nasa is considering a new one-way mission in which astronauts will be sent to another world such as Mars to settle there for ever.

The US s

'Moon even has its own water cycle'

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Washington: A year after announcing the discovery of water molecules on the moon, NASA scientists have now said the earth's satellite is not only rich in useful materials, it has a water cycle of its

Manmohan Singh gets World Statesman Award

A top US official on Thursday described Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as "a man of uncommon decency and grace" who has led the way in building the Indo-US partnership, as he presented the Indian leade

Email virus hits Google, Nasa servers

Sept. 11: An email virus has attacked servers across the world, including those at Nasa and Google, and possibly the US internal security department office. The virus, called “here you have” or “VBMan

Nasa may land probe on asteroid hurtling towards Earth: Report

American space agency Nasa is contemplating to land a probe on an asteroid which is hurtling towards the Earth, a plan which mirrors the plot of the 1998 blockbuster Hollywood film 'Deep Impact', a me

Third spacewalk needed to fix station cooling system: Nasa

Astronauts need to conduct an extra, third spacewalk outside the International Space Station after their efforts to repair a failed cooling system on the orbiter fell short, Nasa said. "I really think

'Solar tsunami' may hit Earth anytime: Scientists

The Earth could be hit by a "solar tsunami" anytime now as an unusually complex magnetic eruption on the Sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards our planet, scientists ha

Sunita selected for 2nd space sojourn

Washington, July 10: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams would travel to space for the second time in June 2012, the Nasa announced on Saturday.

Born of Gujarati parents in Euclid, Ohio, Ms Wi

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