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Watch live! Astronauts taking spacewalk outside space station - Space.com 28-Jun-2020

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Watch live! Astronauts taking spacewalk outside space station - Space.com They're upgrading the station's power system! More...

Novel CO2 capturing tech may cut vehicle emissions by 90% - ETAuto.com 28-Jun-2020

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Novel CO2 capturing tech may cut vehicle emissions by 90% - ETAuto.com The whole process takes place within a capsule placed above the driver's cabin. More...

One step closer to understanding the human brain : Study - ETHealthworld.com 28-Jun-2020

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One step closer to understanding the human brain : Study - ETHealthworld.com An international team of scientists led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has launched a comprehensive overview of all proteins expressed in the brain, published today in the journal Science. More...

SpaceX puts 60 new Starlink Internet satellites into orbit - ETTelecom.com 28-Jun-2020

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SpaceX puts 60 new Starlink Internet satellites into orbit - ETTelecom.com SpaceX has confirmed the successful deployment of a new batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit. More...

SpaceX's Starlink might not qualify for low-latency funding, FCC says - Filmy One 28-Jun-2020

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SpaceX's Starlink might not qualify for low-latency funding, FCC says - Filmy One SpaceX argued that the FCC’s doubts are unfounded and that Starlink will “easily clear the commission’s 100-millisecond threshold for low-latency services, even including its “processing time” during unrealistic worst-case scenarios. In fact, with altitudes a… More...

NASA Alerts A 'Potentially Dangerous' Asteroid Is Approaching Earth - Sound On Sound Fest 28-Jun-2020

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NASA Alerts A 'Potentially Dangerous' Asteroid Is Approaching Earth - Sound On Sound Fest NASA has warned that five asteroids are approaching planet Earth and has classified one of them as “potentially dangerous”. Scientists estimate that space cars have different More...

Nasa finds Vikram Lander, releases images of impact site - The Live Mirror 28-Jun-2020

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Nasa finds Vikram Lander, releases images of impact site - The Live Mirror NASA released an image taken by its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) that showed the site of Vikram Lander's impact and parts scattered. More...

NASA astronauts conduct a spacewalk for space station power upgrades - CNN International 28-Jun-2020

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NASA astronauts conduct a spacewalk for space station power upgrades - CNN International Early Friday, NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken began a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station to replace lithium ion batteries for one of the station's power channels. It lasted for six hours and seven minutes. More...

First Space Tourist Will Spacewalk Outside ISS in 2023 - PCMag India 28-Jun-2020

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First Space Tourist Will Spacewalk Outside ISS in 2023 - PCMag India One lucky space tourist will become the first private citizen to experience open space. More...

Antarctica's Melting Sea Ice Is Having A Positive Effect On Penguins - India Times 28-Jun-2020

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Antarctica's Melting Sea Ice Is Having A Positive Effect On Penguins - India Times A drastic impact of global warming is the melting of ice caps in the polar regions of Antarctica.  ReutersWhile the resulting rise in sea levels is a grave concern for the planet Earth in general, Antarctica's penguins seem to be happie… More...

Elon Musk take note: Jupiter's moon Europa could support life - Free Press Journal 28-Jun-2020

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Elon Musk take note: Jupiter's moon Europa could support life - Free Press Journal More...

SpaceX Crew Dragon: A New Era For Human Spaceflight | TechQuila - TechQuila 28-Jun-2020

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SpaceX Crew Dragon: A New Era For Human Spaceflight | TechQuila - TechQuila SpaceX created history by being the first private space agency to launch humans into the lower Earth Orbit. We look at the major reasons behind the success. More...

We Just Had A Close Encounter With A Blazing Asteroid | TechQuila - TechQuila 28-Jun-2020

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We Just Had A Close Encounter With A Blazing Asteroid | TechQuila - TechQuila Recently, NASA released a statement about the asteroid 163348 (2002 NN4). It made a fly-by past Earth, thankfully at a safe distance. More...

Could we extract energy from a black hole? Our experiment verifies old theory - Science X 28-Jun-2020

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Could we extract energy from a black hole? Our experiment verifies old theory - Science X A rotating black hole is such an extreme force of nature that it drags surrounding time and space around with it. So it is only natural to ask whether black holes could be used as some sort of energy source. In 1969, mathematical physicist Roger Penrose propo… More...

SpaceX push toward new launch record delayed - CNET 28-Jun-2020

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SpaceX push toward new launch record delayed - CNET The company's broadband constellation is nearly big enough to start service. More...

Amid Lockdown: NASA dashboard confirms pollution drop in Delhi - The Indian Express 28-Jun-2020

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Amid Lockdown: NASA dashboard confirms pollution drop in Delhi - The Indian Express The concentration of the air pollutant began reducing from March 16 and continued dropping under the first phase of the nationwide lockdown imposed from March 25 to April 14 to control the spread of coronavirus pandemic. More...

Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says - Reuters India 28-Jun-2020

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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea, global body says - Reuters India Radiation sensors in Stockholm have detected higher-than-usual but still harmless levels of isotopes produced by nuclear fission, probably from somewhere on or near the Baltic Sea, a body running a worldwide network of the sensors said on Friday. More...

Two black holes collided in deep space and produced a burst of light for the first time - Times Now 28-Jun-2020

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Two black holes collided in deep space and produced a burst of light for the first time - Times Now Astronomers have apparently seen the invisible for the first time -- they have observed a collision between two black holes in deep space. More...

Bone conduction headphones: what are they, and how do they work? - Android Authority 28-Jun-2020

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Bone conduction headphones: what are they, and how do they work? - Android Authority Bone conduction headphones are great for the athletes and hearing impaired, but what are they, and how do they work? More...

Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk - India Today 28-Jun-2020

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Spacewalking astronaut loses mirror, newest space junk - India Today While millions of pieces of space debris orbit Earth, more than 20,000 items including old rocket parts and busted satellites are big enough to be tracked in order to safeguard the space station and working satellites. More...

NASA to use AI to help search for life on Mars and beyond - Republic World - Republic World 28-Jun-2020

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NASA to use AI to help search for life on Mars and beyond - Republic World - Republic World Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) have announced first results from new intelligent systems, to be installed in space probes for Mars More...

NASA releases stunning 10-year time-lapse of the Sun - WION 28-Jun-2020

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NASA releases stunning 10-year time-lapse of the Sun - WION Compiling one photo every hour, the movie condenses a decade of the Sun into 61 minutes, wrote NASA while sharing the video. More...

Blood Moon 2020: Will the July 4 eclipse turn the Moon red? - Express.co.uk 28-Jun-2020

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Blood Moon 2020: Will the July 4 eclipse turn the Moon red? - Express.co.uk BLOOD MOON eclipses are known to turn the Moon an ominous rusty colour - but will the Moon turn blood-red during next month's penumbral eclipse? More...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures Incredible Image of Cosmic 'Bat Wings' Flapping in Space - News18 28-Jun-2020

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NASA’s Hubble Telescope Captures Incredible Image of Cosmic 'Bat Wings' Flapping in Space - News18 Scientists have called the young star HBC 672 and named the shadow feature 'Bat Shadow'. As per NASA, the team of scientists witnessed the flapping over 404 days. More...

Mega-wombat the size of a BEAR discovered in Australia after 25 million years - The Scottish Sun 28-Jun-2020

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Mega-wombat the size of a BEAR discovered in Australia after 25 million years - The Scottish Sun More...

This exoplanet whizzes around its star once a week and is bombarded by flares - Digital Trends 28-Jun-2020

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This exoplanet whizzes around its star once a week and is bombarded by flares - Digital Trends Astronomers recently discovered a Nepune-sized planet orbiting the baby star AU Mic, which could teach us more about how planetary systems form and develop. More...

NASA to pay you Rs 26 lakh for designing a space toilet for Moon - National Herald 28-Jun-2020

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NASA to pay you Rs 26 lakh for designing a space toilet for Moon - National Herald NASA is preparing for return to the Moon and innumerable activities to equip, shelter, and otherwise support future astronauts are underway. More...

Astronomers Discover Super Earths 11 Light-Years Away From Us - Gizbot 28-Jun-2020

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Astronomers Discover Super Earths 11 Light-Years Away From Us - Gizbot Thanks to space telescopes like the Kepler and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered two, possibly three “super-Earths” orbit a bright but quiet red dwarf star sitting just 11 light-years from Earth. More...

Asteroid Day is on June 30 — and it’s the one day no asteroid will be making its close approach - Business Insider India 28-Jun-2020

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Asteroid Day is on June 30 — and it’s the one day no asteroid will be making its close approach - Business Insider India Asteroid Day will be celebrated on 30 June 2020 for the sixth time. Even though asteroids are scheduled to make a close approach on June 29 and July 1, on More...