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Top 10 universities in America according to QS World University Ranking 2024
QS World University Ranking has identified world's leading universities situated in the United states of America.
Published on Jun 29, 2023 04:09 PM IST
Harshita Bhati
NASA reveals volcanic activity on Venus, see pics
Geological proof of recent volcanic activity has been found on the surface of Venus for the first time. NASA has shared pictures of the same.
Published on Mar 17, 2023 05:00 PM IST
Vrinda Jain
Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter survives wild flight after a navigation error
Nasa shared a sequence of images, taken by the navigation camera aboard the Ingenuity Mars helicopter, that depicted the last 29 seconds of the rotorcraft’s sixth flight.
Updated on May 28, 2021 06:33 PM IST
hindustantimes.com | Written by Kunal Gaurav, Hindustan Times, New Delhi
NASA joins ISRO to track Vikram lander ‘calling home’
The ISRO is trying to establish link with Vikram with its Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN) at Byalalu near Bengaluru.
Updated on Jun 29, 2020 01:18 AM IST
Chennai | Indo Asian News Service
High above Greenland glaciers, NASA looks into melting ocean ice
OMG surveys Greenlandic glaciers in the winter, comparing it with the data they collect about the oceans in the summer over a five-year period, which Willis hopes will allow researchers to better predict sea-level rise.
Updated on Aug 26, 2019 11:47 AM IST
Greenland | Agence France-Presse
Asteroid will hit Earth eventually, we have no defence yet: Elon Musk
A monster asteroid called Apophis -- named after an Egyptian “God of Chaos” -- will come dangerously close to the Earth, about 19,000 miles (31,000 kms) above the surface in 2029.
Updated on Aug 20, 2019 08:44 PM IST
San Francisco | Indo Asian News Service
A year later, NASA finds hacker used $35 computer to steal restricted data
NASA came to question the integrity of its Deep Space Network data “and temporarily disconnected several space flight-related systems from the JPL network.”
Updated on Jun 25, 2019 09:03 AM IST
Washington | Agence France-Presse
NASA’s InSight Lander places first instrument on Mars. Watch
NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone that will allow scientists to peer into the Martian interior by studying ground motion -- also known as marsquakes.
Updated on Dec 21, 2018 02:18 PM IST
Washington | Press Trust of India
NASA’s Martian quake sensor InSight lands at slight angle
The USD 993 million lander arrived Monday at its target, a lava plain named Elysium Planitia, for a two-year mission aimed at better understanding how Earth’s neighboring planet formed.
Published on Dec 01, 2018 12:19 PM IST
Los Angeles | Agence France-Presse
NASA’s InSight spacecraft on Mars for sneak peek into planet’s deep interior
InSight’s primary instrument is a French-built seismometer, designed to record the slightest vibrations from “marsquakes” and meteor impacts around the planet. The device is so sensitive it can measure a seismic wave just one half the radius of a hydrogen atom.
Updated on Nov 27, 2018 07:34 AM IST
Pasadena (United States) | Reuters
Nasa launches rocket to test supersonic parachute for landing rover on Mars
The payload descended by parachute and splashed-down in the Atlantic Ocean 28 miles from Wallops Island, Nasa said.
Updated on Sep 08, 2018 12:55 PM IST
Washington | Indo Asian News Service
NASA’s Mars lander to study Marsquakes set for launch
NASA’s first robotic lander to study Mars deep interior will be launched from California’s Vandenberg Air Force station at 4.35 pm (IST) today. The 360kg spacecraft, called the Mars InSight Lander, will be released about 90 minutes after launch on a 301 million-mile flight to Mars. It will land on the Red Planet on November 26.
Updated on May 04, 2018 08:38 PM IST
Reuters, Los Angeles, | HT Correspondent
Crack in heat shield won’t delay Mars 2020 mission: NASA
A post-test inspection of the composite structure for a heat shield to be used on the Mars 2020 mission revealed that a fracture occurred during structural testing.
Updated on Apr 29, 2018 08:39 PM IST
Press Trust of India, Washington | Press Trust of India
NASA to send its first-ever mission to study deep interiors of Mars
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) -- a stationary lander -- will be dedicated to explore Mars’ deep interior.
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 11:15 AM IST
IANS, Washington | HT Correspondent