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Alphabet’s Life Science Tech Unit Verily Raises $1 Billion From Investors
Verily, Alphabet's life sciences division, on Thursday announced a $1 billion (roughly Rs. 7,000 crores) investment round led by private equity firm Silver Lake. Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat and Silver…
ISRO Said to Be Working on Chandrayaan-2 Launch for Next Month
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to launch Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the Moon, next month, sources in the space agency said Thursday. "We are all…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back First Images of Ultima Thule, Looks Like a ‘Snowman’
Four billion miles from the sun floats Ultima Thule, an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced Wednesday is aptly shaped like a giant snowman. The first detailed images beamed…
ISRO Planning to Launch 32 Space Missions in 2019
India is planning to launch 32 space missions in 2019, a top space official said in Bengaluru. The year 2019 promises to be challenging to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) community…
Indian Science Congress: PM Modi to Inaugurate Science Meet on January 3
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Indian Science Congress at Jalandhar on Thursday, an annual congregation that witnesses deliberations by top scientific minds of the country. The theme for…
Young Star With a Deformed Disc Sheds Light on Misaligned Planetary Orbits
The misalignment of planetary orbits in many planetary systems - including our own - may be caused by distortions in the planet-forming disk early in their existence, suggests new research. The…
NASA’s New Horizons Probe ‘Phones Home’ in Landmark Mission to Ultima Thule
NASA's New Horizons explorer successfully "phoned home" on Tuesday after a journey to the most distant world ever explored by humankind, a frozen rock at the edge of the solar…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Just Visited the Most Distant Object Ever Explored
A NASA explorer is believed to have reached the solar system's outermost region early Tuesday morning, flying close to a space rock 20 miles long and billions of miles from…
NASA Spaceship Zooms Towards Furthest Object Humans Have Ever Explored
The nerdiest New Year's party in the solar system is happening 4 billion miles from Earth, where a lone, intrepid spacecraft is en route to the furthest object humans have…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spaceship Sets Record by Entering Orbit Around Asteroid Bennu
A NASA spacecraft set a new milestone Monday in cosmic exploration by entering orbit around an asteroid, Bennu, the smallest object ever to be circled by a human-made spaceship. The…