SCIENCE

Washington, Dec 1: A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the country's national science agency said on Tuesday.

Washington, Dec 1: A team led by an Indian-origin scientist in the US has developed a new system that can extract oxygen and hydrogen fuel from the salty water on Mars, and may radically change the logistics of future missions to the Red Planet and beyond.

And we're another month down in 2020... As November draws to a close, NASA has confirmed that an asteroid named 153201 2000 WO107, one as big as Dubai's' Burj Khalifa, will hurtle past earth.

California, Nov 22: The US space agency along with the European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched a satellite to monitor rising global sea level.

New Delhi, Nov 19: From helping in optimising the yield of therapeutics to training staff for setting up large-scale manufacturing sites, cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) can be used to fast track COVID-19 vaccine development worldwide, experts say.

Sriharikota, Nov 7: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) successfully launches EOS-01 along with nine commercial satellites from foreign countries, from the first launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, here on Saturday.

Bengaluru, Oct 29: India would launch its latest earth observation satellite EOS-01 and nine international customer spacecraft onboard its PSLV-C49 rocket from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on November 7, ISRO said on October 28. This is the first launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation since the COVID-19-induced lockdown came into force in March. ISRO chairman K. Sivan

California, Oct 22: A trio of space travellers safely returned to Earth on Thursday after a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

Houston, Oct 19: A 14-year-old Indian-American girl has won a USD 25,000 young scientist challenge for a discovery that could provide a potential treatment for Covid-19.

New Delhi, Oct 7: The Indian space agency is likely to test its reusable launch vehicle's (RLV) landing on the ground sometime in November or December 2020, said a senior official.