Washington: Sally Ride, who blazed trails into orbit as the first American woman in space, died Monday of pancreatic cancer. She was 61. Ride died at her home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, said Terry McEntee, a spokeswoman for her company, Sally Ride Science. She was a private person and the details […]

New Delhi: US astronaut of Indian origin Sunita Williams will lead the Expedition 33 crew as the team will conduct experiments on survival on long duration flights for distant space journeys. An officer with the US Navy, Williams, 46, took off from the iconic Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with fellow flight engineers Yuri Malenchenko from […]

Baikonur: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams says she is ready for her second expedition to the International Space Station (ISS). Williams, who has been assigned as the next commander of the ISS, says she is impatient to meet members from Expedition-32, who have been on board ISS since mid-May. Daughter of an Indian American father from […]

London: A newly found 150-foot-wide asteroid may pass so close to the Earth that it might destroy communications satellites, researchers say. Discovered by astronomers at the LaSagra Observatory in Spain, 2012 DA14 is estimated to veer near enough to Earth to potentially disrupt geosynchronous satellites on February 15, 2013, a newspaper reported. While the asteroid […]

Washington:  A newly discovered planet is eerily similar to Earth and is sitting outside Earth’s solar system in what seems to be the ideal place for life, except for one hitch – it is a bit too big. The planet is in the middle of what astronomers call “the Goldilocks zone”, that hard to find […]

Bangalore: It was in 1977 that Voyager, a non-human performer in the sky left earth and leapt to the solar circle for investigation into the solar system. The American space research institution NASA arranged this trip in which a trained human being could never reach the edge of our solar circle. The speed of this […]