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Unlike orbiters

All aboard for the Red Planet

Einstein's drag

Two satellites reveal how Earth's rotation warps space-time

Stabilising mirrors

China may buy Mir

Stars and lumps

Looking down at dust

Glittering find

Diamond dust found in outer space

Ice hazard

Role reversal

India to work together with the US to launch satellites

Whose find is it anyway?

Indian lunar mission to US aid

US to piggyback on Indian lunar mission

Apollo's Nazi connections

Fear of asteroids is expensive

Unmanned space missions can be as helpful in garnering knowledge of outer space

‘Vapour on Venus will tell us if it’s alive’

More than two-and-a-half decades after its last missions to Venus, NASA has planned a trip to Earth’s nearest neighbour

Guess what NASA plans to buy? Gender-inclusive space suits

NASA had to cancel its first all-female space walk earlier March 2, 2019, as they didn't have enough space suits that fit two women

Sign language from outer space

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Spy which loves nature

To record environmental trends US spy satellites will now be used for monitoring natural phenomena

Life someplace else?

Evidence of water vapour in the solar system and the possibility of existence of another solar system elsewhere in the Universe has raised …

Reboot: moon

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the moon was a focus of much interest in the US and the erstwhile USSR. But that politico-scientific Cold War …

Satellite hacking

Safe crash

Dawn captures gleaming, bright spots on Ceres

The NASA spacecraft will map the entire Ceres six times over the next two months

Hopes dashed