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Minister for Earth Sciences Jitendra Singh wanted the Opposition to take part in the debate

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA is finally set to launch the Artemis I rocket in the first step to return humans to the moon.

In recent weeks the world has been awed by the first series of colour images to emerge from the James Webb Space Telescope. A celestial concert, the images of swirling galaxies and conflagrations of gas presented an unprecedented view of the early cosmos. US President Joe Biden spoke of the…

Astronomers anticipated that micrometeoroids would hit the telescope, but the damage caused so far was unexpected

The telescope’s development process cost $10 billion over 17 years.

One of the James Webb Space Telescope's mirror segments suffered unexpected damage from a piece of space dust. Will there be more?

Millions of years ago, giant sharks three times larger than today’s great whites stalked the world’s ocean. They’re long gone now, but occasionally, someone walking on a beach spots an odd triangular shape in the sand. On closer inspection, they realize it’s a fossilized tooth as large as a human…

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NASA has used the anniversary of the July 20, 1969 moonwalk to announce tentative launch dates for the first major stage of a mission designed to put human boots on the Moon again.

Penguins may have evolved in response to ancient climate shifts, providing scientists with clues about how well they may adapt to a changing climate today.

Something is happening to the sun. One of the regions of the solar atmosphere currently exhibiting sunspots caught the attention of observatories on July 11, when there was a sudden increase in ultraviolet and X-ray brightness. The next ones to notice were the amateur radio communities on either side of…