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Europe’s first orbital cancer lab planned to study tumours in space

Europe’s first orbital cancer lab planned to study tumours in space

The facility will operate in low Earth orbit and focus on experiments that gravity-bound labs cannot perform; the company says the lab will shorten the timeline between discovery and therapy by unlocking new biological insights

24 January,2026 09:07 AM IST | Berlin | Agencies
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams retires after months-long space station mission

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams retires after months-long space station mission

The pair was launched to the space station in 2024, the first people to fly Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule. Their mission should have lasted just a week, but stretched to more than nine months because of Starliner trouble. In the end, they caught a ride home last March with SpaceX

21 January,2026 08:23 AM IST | Cape Canaveral | AP
NASA sends 4 astronauts back to Earth in first medical evacuation

NASA sends 4 astronauts back to Earth in first medical evacuation

Officials refused to identify the astronaut who needed care last week and would not divulge the health concerns

15 January,2026 10:12 AM IST | Cape Canaveral | AP
‘Cosmic hamburger’ shows signs of planet formation, astronomers find

‘Cosmic hamburger’ shows signs of planet formation, astronomers find

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a powerful array of 66 radio antennas located in northern Chile, the team discovered the first signs of planet formation in the dense gas layers of a system known as Gomez’s Hamburger (GoHam)

13 January,2026 08:19 AM IST | Santiago | Agencies

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