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NASA's 10-Engine Electric Plane named GL-10 Completes Flight Test

NASA successfully tested a 10-Engine Electric Plane named Greased Lightning-10 (GL-10) that that can take off and land like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. During...

May 7, 2015

NASA develops first 3-D printed copper rocket engine part

NASA engineers have developed the first full-scale three dimensional (3-D) printed copper rocket engine part. The part developed was a combustion chamber liner that operates at extreme temperatures...

April 23, 2015

NASA’s Curiosity rover discovers useful Nitrogen on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity rover for first time has found evidence of nitrogen in the form of nitrate in aeolian deposits and in two mudstone deposits on Mars. It was...

March 27, 2015

NASA’s Hubble telescope spots ocean on Jupiter's moon Ganymede

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted massive saltwater ocean under the icy crust of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede. Scientists believe that this finding could potentially support life. Hubble...

March 15, 2015

NASA’s Dawn space probe completes its orbit around dwarf planet Ceres

NASA’s Dawn space probe has completed its orbit around dwarf planet Ceres which is the largest object in the Solar System between Mars and Jupiter. With the completion...

March 7, 2015

Ancient star with five Earth size planets discovered by astronomers

Astronomers have discovered a star that is 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets. It was discovered by team of astronomer’s after analyzing data...

January 28, 2015

NASA's Kepler Telescope achieves big milestone with 1,000th exoplanet discovery

NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has achieved a big milestone after it had discovered 1000 exoplanet. In order to achieve this milestone, planet hunting telescope had continuously monitored more than...

January 9, 2015

NASA for first time emails hardware digital file for 3D printing on ISS

For the first time in history, NASA has emailed hardware digital file for 3D printing to International Space Station (ISS). Using this digital file, a ratcheting socket wrench...

December 23, 2014

NASA’s Orion capsule blasts off for test flight to Mars

NASA’s Orion capsule blasted off on its first journey into orbit, from Kennedy Space Centre off Florida coast. United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket was carrying this...

December 6, 2014

India creates history

India has become the first Asian country in the world to successfully launch Mangalyaan in Martian orbit in a record time of 3 hours. It has also achieved...

September 24, 2014

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