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Cotton Seed Germinates on China’s Moon Probe, Becomes First Off-World Plant

The Wire Staff 15/01/2019

Update: The plant reportedly died on January 16.

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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Commercial Space Activities Bill Likely to Be Introduced Next Year

The Wire Staff 30/12/2018

The Space Activities Bill will facilitate participation of non-governmental...

FILE PHOTO: NASA's InSight spacecraft, destined for the Elysium Planitia region located in Mars' northern hemisphere, undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., April 6, 2018. Credit: REUTERS/Gene Blevins/File Photo

NASA Spacecraft Nears Red Planet on Mission to Detect ‘Marsquakes’

Steve Gorman 26/11/2018

NASA's first robotic lander, the Mars InSight spacecraft marks the...

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The Next Big Thing in Space Commerce? Small Satellites

The Wire Staff 20/11/2018

The market for small satellites has been growing thanks...

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Launches World’s First Mission to ‘Touch’ the Sun

NASA successfully launched the Parker Solar Probe, a robotic spacecraft...

ISRO chief K. Sivan during an event to mark Vikram Sarabhai's birth centenary. Credit: PTI

ISRO Plans to Launch TV Channel to ‘Inculcate Scientific Temper’

The space agency is also planning to organise training...