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U.S. Navy divers secure NASA's Orion capsule during recovery operations after it splashed down in the Pacific off Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, concluding a 25-day test flight. Photo: Mario Tama/Pool Photo via AP

NASA Orion capsule safely blazes back from moon, aces test

NASA’s Orion capsule made a blisteringly fast return from the moon Sunday, parachuting into the Pacific off Mexico to conclude a test flight that should clear the way for astronauts on the next lunar flyby.

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NFSJ Founding President Karki bestowed with science and technology award

Science Journalist and Editor Chhatra Karki has been honored with 'Science and Technology Journalism Award-2021' initiated by Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) which bears an amount of Rs. 50,000.

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at an Apple event on the campus of Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. Photo: AP

Apple maintains prices on new iPhones despite inflation

Apple's latest line-up of iPhones will boast better cameras, faster processors, and a longer lasting battery — all at the same prices as last year's models, despite inflationary pressure that has driven up the cost of many other everyday items.

Nepal Forum of Science Journalists has announced its new executive committee, with Rajan Pokhrel as the forum's new president.

Nepal Forum of Science Journalists announces new executive committee

Nepal Forum of Science Journalists has announced its new executive committee, with Rajan Pokhrel as the forum's new president.

A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist's concept of a black widow pulsar. The pulsar heats the facing side of its stellar partner to temperatures twice as hot as the sun's surface and slowly evaporates it. Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via Reuters

Gluttonous cosmic 'black widow' is heaviest-known neutron star

Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

Russia signals space station pullout; NASA says it's not official yet

Baby stars, dancing galaxies: NASA shows new cosmic views

Meet the 'zombie star' that survived a supernova blast

NASA asteroid mission on hold due to late software delivery

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A spinning neutron star periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this artist's concept of a black widow pulsar. The pulsar heats the facing side of its stellar partner to temperatures twice as hot as the sun's surface and slowly evaporates it. Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Handout via Reuters

Gluttonous cosmic 'black widow' is heaviest-known neutron star

Astronomers have observed the most massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

FILE PHOTO: Robyn Gatens, Deputy Director, International Space Station at NASA Headquarters, smiles during a news conference announcing that NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a commercial economy in low-Earth orbit, at the NASDAQ Market site at Times Square in New York City, U.S., June 7, 2019. Photo: Reuters/File

Russia signals space station pullout; NASA says it's not official yet

Russia's new space chief announced on Tuesday his country plans to withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024, but senior NASA officials said Moscow has not formally conveyed an intent to end its two-decade-old orbital partnership with the United States.

A Long March-5B Y3 rocket, carrying the Wentian lab module for China's space station under construction, takes off from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan province, China July 24, 2022. Photo: China Daily via Reuters

China launches second space station module, Wentian

China on Sunday launched the second of three modules to its permanent space station, in one of the final missions needed to complete the orbiting outpost by year's end.

An artist’s impression showing what the binary star system VFTS 243 – containing a black hole and a large luminous star orbiting each other - might look like if we were observing it up close is seen in this undated handout image. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, is composed of a hot, blue star with 25 times the sun’s mass and a black hole, which is at least nine times the mass of the sun. ESO/L. Calcada/Handout via Reuters

Scientists find an exotic black hole deemed a 'needle in a haystack'

Astronomers have spotted in a galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way what they are calling a cosmic "needle in a haystack" - a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star.

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Webb begins hunt for first stars, habitable worlds

The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun.

This image released by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via AP

Webb space telescope opens door to discoveries still unimagined

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope's inaugural batch of images has opened a new chapter of cosmic exploration, but astronomers say the observatory's most consequential discoveries may well be those they have yet to even imagine.

This image provided by NASA on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, shows Stephan's Quintet, a visual grouping of five galaxies captured by the Webb Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). (NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via AP)

Baby stars, dancing galaxies: NASA shows new cosmic views

A sparkling landscape of baby stars. A foamy blue and orange view of a dying star. Five galaxies in a cosmic dance. The splendors of the universe glowed in a new batch of images released Tuesday from NASA's powerful new telescope.

Dr Pratik Man Singh Gurung. Photo: Naresh Shrestha/ THT

Robotics: The future of healthcare

Around 2007, a young surgeon stood in a conference hall in Orlando, Florida, the US staring at a magnificent robot operating on a human body. It was then that he decided what he wanted to do — become a robotic surgeon.

This photo provided by Sanford Underground Research Facility shows the LZ Outer Detector, used to veto radioactivity that can mimic a dark matter signal in Lead, S.D. Scientists have begun a new search for mysterious dark matter in a former gold mine a mile underground. Dark matter makes up the vast majority of the mass of the universe but scientists don't know what it is. Photo: Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility via AP

Huge underground search for mysterious dark matter begins

In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: dark matter.

This image (left) shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 before the explosion of a white dwarf star called Supernova 2012Z. Right: Clockwise from top right: the position of the supernova pre-explosion; Supernova 2012Z pictured in 2013; the difference between the pre-explosion images and 2016 observations; the location of the supernova in the latest observations in 2016. ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Jha, McCully, et al. 2022, ApJ, 925, 138/Handout via Reuters

Meet the 'zombie star' that survived a supernova blast

Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death - a stellar explosion called a supernova - but emerged from it brighter than before the blast.

An image of Mars taken by China's Tianwen-1 unmanned probe is seen in this handout image released by China National Space Administration (CNSA) June 29, 2022. Photo: CNSA/Handout via Reuters

Chinese spacecraft acquires images of entire planet of Mars

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft has acquired imagery data covering all of Mars, including visuals of its south pole, after circling the planet more than 1,300 times since early last year, state media reported on Wednesday.

FILE - Technicians work on the Psyche spacecraft at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, April 11, 2022, in Pasadena, Calif. Photo: AP/File

NASA asteroid mission on hold due to late software delivery

NASA put an asteroid mission on hold Friday, blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software.

A screenshot showing planetary parade scheduled for June 24, 2022. Courtesy: stellarium-web.org

Planetary parade of 2022 has Mercury, Venus, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn lined up, making a spectacular show

A wonder for all the sky watchers - a rare planetary parade is expected to line in the morning sky in the month of June.

A composite image shows the star-forming region called 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula in this undated handout picture. The background image, taken in the infrared, was captured by the HAWK-I instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) and shows bright stars and light, pinkish clouds of hot gas. The bright red-yellow streaks superimposed on the image come from radio observations taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), revealing regions of cold, dense gas that have the potential to collapse and form stars. Photo: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Wong et al., ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey, with acknowledgment to Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit/Handout via Reuters

In Tarantula Nebula, a stunning view of stars being born

Astronomers have peered into a teeming stellar nursery in the Tarantula Nebula - a colossal cloud of gas and dust next door to our galaxy - gaining new understanding of the dynamics of star formation while obtaining a dazzling image of the cosmos.

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Nepathya performing live in concert at Manning Clark Hall in Canberra. Photo: Gyal Nima Thakali/Nepalaya

Nepathya performs for first time in Australian capital, Canberra

From folk tune filled 'Chekyo Chekyo' to sentimental hit 'Yo Zindagani', the audience swayed and sang with Amrit Gurung, Nepathya vocalist.

In this photo provided by Chad Fish, a large balloon drifts above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it, Saturday, February 4, 2023. Photo: AP

US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China

US downs Chinese balloon, drawing a threat from China

Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has decided to quit the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government. Photo: RSS

Three ministers of RSP submit resignation to PM Dahal

Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has decided to quit the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government.

Foreign airlines get more time to shift operations to GBIA. Photo courtesy: ADB

Aviation Minister Kirati pledges to launch NAC flights from GBIA

The Minister vowed to address diplomatic and technical issues for the operation of the airport and provide all necessary support towards that end.

Manchester City's Erling Haaland, left, challenges for the ball with Arsenal's William Saliba during the English FA Cup 4th round. Photo: AP/File

Man City at Spurs; Milan derby; Bayern seeks win

A look at what’s happening in European soccer on Sunday.

Men organize their belongings at a makeshift tent camp outside the Petit Chateau reception center in Brussels. Photo: AP

EU migration impasse leaves many refugees out in the cold

The lack of help for most refugees has been driving nongovernmental organizations and volunteers to despair.

PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal speaks at a program in Kathmandu. File Photo: RSS

Unity among ruling partners remains intact: PM Dahal

The RSP led by Rabi Lamichhane has quit the government today itself, but not withdrawn support to it.

The Rastriya Swatantra Party has decided to quit the government on Sunday. Photo: RSS

Rastriya Swatantra Party decides to quit govt

The Rastriya Swatantra Party has decided to quit the government on Sunday.

Everton's James Tarkowski, right, celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and Arsenal at Goodison Park. Photo: AP

Everton stuns Arsenal and Liverpool's EPL troubles deepen

Liverpool’s season is unravelling after a seventh league loss makes a bid for Champions League qualification look increasingly unlikely.

Communications Minister insists on reliable, quality telecommunications services

Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Rekha Sharma, has instructed the bodies concerned to ensure reliable and quality telecommunications services with the utilization of available advanced technology.

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Sahoo, Chogsomjav bag gold medals

India’s Debasis Sahoo and Mongolian Martaa Chogsomjav won gold medals in the Circuit-I tournament under the ITF World Tennis Tour J-60 Kathmandu here at the International Sports Complex courts on Saturday.

FILE - President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf salutes on April 9, 2002 at a public rally in Lahore, Pakistan. Photo: AP

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died, an official said Sunday. He was 79.

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