Year: 2019

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Why India’s Best Universities Must Hire More Teachers

Pushkar 02/01/2019

India’s best universities need a mix of both teaching-...

Guests congratulate New Horizons team members after they received signals from the New Horizons spacecraft that it is healthy and it collected data during the fly of Ultima Thule, at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, U.S., January 1, 2019. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS.

NASA Space Probe ‘Phones Home’ in Landmark Mission to Solar System’s Edge

Joey Roulette 02/01/2019

Launched in January 2006, NASA's New Horizons explorer embarked...

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From Volcanoes on Mars to Scarps on Mercury – How Places on Other Worlds Get Their Names

David Rothery 02/01/2019

Naming features on other worlds is a trickier issue...

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The Human Cost of Delhi’s Quick-Fix Pollution Control Measures

Akhil Kumar 01/01/2019

Thousands of workers, mostly migrants, have been going hungry...

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Govt Plans to Increase Height of Solar Panels so Farming Can Continue Below

Karthikeyan Hemalatha 01/01/2019

If India is to generate 100 GW of solar...

FILE PHOTO: An artist's impression of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, currently en route to Pluto, is shown in this handout image provided by NASA/JHUAPL. Credit: REUTERS/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Handout

NASA Probe Believed to Have Passed Distant Space Rock on Landmark Mission

Joey Roulette 01/01/2019

The body is farther from Earth than any other...

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The Major Indian and International Space Missions to Look Out for in 2019

Jatan Mehta 01/01/2019

2018 was an incredible year for spaceflight with over...