Saurabh has topped NASA's International Scientist Discovery exam.
United States space agency NASA said it would launch a water-related satellite in collaboration with India's ISRO.
The new, "fluffy" planet has been named 'WASP-193b' and was found to be located about 1,200 light years away from Earth, roughly equivalent to 10,800 trillion kilometres.
Using data collected by India's Chandrayan mission, NASA has detected magmatic water locked under the surface of the Moon.
NASA has confirmed its New Horizons probe worked flawlessly on its flight past Pluto.
"We have been able to detect NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in lunar orbit with ground-based radar," said Marina Brozovic, a radar scientist at JPL and principal investigator for the test project.
The details of the transition from defined rays in the corona, the Sun's upper atmosphere, to the solar wind have been, until now, a mystery.
'Two nations would continue to pursue shared interests in space that includes collaboration on safety and security in space'
The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer or Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight from from Wallops Island.
It's the vehicle's first launch atop a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket which is capable of lifting it far higher than ever before.
Members of the International Space Station Expedition 44 crew are undertaking a first for humanity: tucking into greens grown right there on the space station, in zero-gravity.
An analysis of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover indicates that Mars could have supported living microbes, the American space agency NASA has said.
If all goes on well, the NISAR satellite will be launched in 2021 from India using the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
Globally averaged temperatures in 2017 were 0.90 degree Celsius warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. That is second only to global temperatures in 2016.
The space agency officials said that its operations were not interrupted by the incident. NASA employees watched the drama on television as they were locked down.
The solar-powered spacecraft which left Earth five years ago finally reached its destination and entered into Jupiter's orbit.
NASA has released new global maps of Earth at night.
Organic molecules essential for life have been detected in another hot gas planet outside the solar system, within a year by scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Ahead of this momentous event, learn why the spacecraft won't be stopping at the dwarf planet and much more.
For the two month project, 12 men and 12 women will spend their days and nights in beds angled downward by six degrees, propped up with their feet at an incline above their heads.
Mars rover Opportunity has found evidence indicating that the planet had water. But no signs of life have been found far.
As India celebrated its success in testing an unmanned space crew module on Thursday, over 1.7 lakh Indians had another reason to be happy as a similar National Aeronautics and Space Administration spacecraft carrying a microchip containing their names was brought back safely to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, on the same day after a space odyssey.
Started in August 2013 as a technology development project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Mars Helicopter had to prove that big things could come in small packages.
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Cassini has become the first to orbit Saturn, the second-largest planet in the solar system.
Saatvik Agarwal, a standard X student at Amity International School in South Delhi, is among the 16 students selected from all over the world through a global contest.
'This may open up doors for private players in India to collaborate with global players in commercial missions.'
The Orion capsule returns to earth after a 26 day mission orbiting the Moon and back.
A six-and-a-half tonne defunct climate satellite that has been circling the Earth for the past 20 years will make a fiery death plunge this week, NASA officials have warned.
Located in Titan's stratosphere, the cloud is made of a compound of carbon and nitrogen known as dicyanoacetylene (C4N2), an ingredient in the chemical cocktail that colours the giant moon's hazy, brownish-orange atmosphere.
A preliminary analysis of the image shows two distinct layers of haze.
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, which measures 1.4 times the size of Earth and is the smallest planet ever discovered outside the solar system.
Sainudeen Pattazhy, who teaches in a local college, was informed on Wednesday by Jet Propulsions Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology under NASA that minor planet '5178 No CD4' had been named after him. The planet was discovered by US-based scientist Rajmohan in 1989, Sainudeen said.
Scientists have recorded haunting sounds cast by Jupiter's auroras, captured by NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft during its first full orbit around the king of planets.
As it cruises toward the comet, Deep Impact will observe five nearby stars with 'transiting exosolar planets,' so named because the planet transits, or passes in front of, its star.
Take a look at these absolutely superb pictures from space, as seen by NASA.
NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 mission departed for the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on March 2, 2023.
Having conquered the moon long time ago, the NASA now plans to send astronauts to Mars -- in what is called a journey which will cover hundreds of millions of miles and no less than two-and-a-half years of roundtrip.The way to Mars, it seems, is through the moon, says a report in CBS News.
A Haryana student has been selected for a three-year astronaut training programme of National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States.
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