Tag: Space
First astronaut to fly untethered passes away at 80
WASHINGTON: Bruce McCandless, an astronaut who was the first to fly untethered from his spacecraft in a gripping scene watched around the world, died...
Russia announces plan to build luxury hotel on international space station
MOSCOW: Russia is making a return into the space tourism industry with the development of a hotel module on the International Space Station over...
New Pacific island offers clues on life on Mars
WELLINGTON: The world's newest island, formed during a volcanic eruption in the remote Pacific three years ago, may offer clues to how life potentially...
ISPA to organise conference on ‘Space, Science and Technology’
KARACHI: The Karachi University’s (KU) Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics (ISPA) is organising the 5th national conference on ‘Space, Science and Technology’ from...
Iran relaunches space ambitions after uproar over satellites
TEHRAN: Iran's on-off space programme has received a boost after a recent satellite launch was seen to annoy Washington, with Tehran dusting off plans for...
Students at public school in Jhang forced to share space with...
In yet another incident which screams of the government apathy to education, in the absence of furniture over 200 students at a public school...
Space craft set to launch to study Martian atmosphere
Courtesy The New York Times
The ExoMars 2016 mission – a collaboration between the European and Russian space agencies – is scheduled to blast off...
Astronomers discovered galaxy formed 400 million years after the Big Bang...
Astronomers said on Thursday they had discovered a galaxy that formed just 400 million years after the Big Bang explosion, the most distant galaxy...
Comet probe sent data from drill experiment: scientist
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The European comet probe Philae sent home data from a drill experiment, a key part of its mission, before the lander fell silent...
European probe lands on comet
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The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet on Wednesday, a first in space exploration and the climax of a 10-year-odyssey,...
After Mars, India space chief aims for the moon
India now has its sights set on low-budget missions to the moon and the sun after becoming the first country in Asia to reach...
UAE to create space agency, send unmanned probe to Mars
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Oil-rich United Arab Emirates recently announced it will create a space agency with the aim of sending the first Arab unmanned...
Close call as astronaut nearly drowns…in space
NASA survived a close call at the International Space Station on Tuesday when aspacewalking astronaut could have drowned in his spacesuit helmet — an...
Why don’t we live in space yet?
The first US space station, Skylab, was launched forty years ago with a simple but far-reaching brief: expand man's knowledge of the Sun and...
Russia puts mice, newts in space
A Russian rocket carrying a capsule filled with 45 mice and 15 newts along with other small animals blasted off Friday on a month-long...
Iran sends monkey into space
Breaking news in the world of crazy backwards regimes that want to prove they’re capable of something more than just killing their own citizens:...
NASA to turn asteroid into space station to orbit the moon
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) scientists are planning to capture a 500,000 kg asteroid, relocate it and transform it into a space station...
