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Washington : US President Joe Biden is going all out to turn the tables on Republicans who are trying to paint Democrats as being soft on crime in the hope of winning the crucial spending fight this year on the budget showdown, ahead of…

Washignton : NASA has unveiled the first spacesuits to be worn by astronauts on their journey to the Moon. A prototype of the spacesuit was revealed on Wednesday at Space Center Houston’s Moon 2 Mars Festival, with a full fleet of training…

Washington : US President Joe Biden on Monday calmed an alarmed nation over the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse vowing to protect depositors’ monies, fire the bank management, but declared investors would not be protected as they knew…

Washington : NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 returned safely to Earth on Sunday after completing the fifth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and spending 157 days in orbit. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh…

Washington : NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter captured a shot of a sunset on the Red Planet, during its 45th flight. The little chopper’s high-resolution colour camera captured the Sun on February 22, Space.com reported. The image…

Washington : US President Joe Biden has announced his budget proposal for the next fiscal year. The 182-page proposal projected the federal government’s spending of $6.9 trillion throughout fiscal year 2024, starting on October 1,…

Washington : The International Space Station was forced to fire thrusters to dodge a collision with a satellite, NASA has said. The engines were fired for more than six minutes. To avoid the approaching satellite, the station also had…

Washington : NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured first-ever “sun rays” on Mars, the US space agency said. The rays were imaged as the Sun descended over the horizon on February 2, with “rays of light illuminated a bank of clouds”.…

Washington : NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has captured unusual circles of sand dunes on the Red Planet. The dunes were snapped by MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRise) colour camera. While sand dunes…

Washington : The highly transmissible Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for nearly 90 per cent of all Covid-19 cases reported in the US, according to the latest estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).…