Chinese spacecraft successfully docks with space station, astronauts enter lab module
It is the first time that China's two 20-tonne-level spacecraft conducted rendezvous and docking in orbit, and also the first time that space rendezvous and docking were carried out during the astronauts' in-orbit stay in the space station, the China Manned Space Agency told official media.
Jul 25, 2022, 15:28 PM IST
Scientists in China teleport first object 300 miles into space!
Last month, the Chinese team demonstrated they could send entangled photons from space to Earth. The latest work does the reverse: they sent photons from the mountaintop base to the satellite as it passed directly overhead.
Jul 13, 2017, 11:07 AM IST
NASA plans to save Earth by knocking asteroid off its orbit
The target for the first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defence -- the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) -- is an asteroid that will have a distant approach to Earth in October 2022, and then again in 2024, NASA said.
Jul 09, 2017, 22:18 PM IST
'World-killer' giant asteroid 86666 to narrowly miss Earth this weekend!
Asteroid 86666 (2000 FL10), which could be up to 2.6km wide, has the potential to end life on the planet but fortunately will narrowly miss Earth.
Oct 09, 2015, 14:09 PM IST
