Organic molecule that forms ‘building block for life’ found in interstellar space for 1st time - RT Organic molecules which form the building blocks for life have been detected in a vast cloud in the interstellar space near the center of the Milky Way galaxy for the first time, throwing open possibilities of how life forms. More...

Despite COVID-19 Impacts, Launch Is Fast Approaching for NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover - SciTechDaily The Red Planet's surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be the first that includes gathering Mars samples for future return to Earth. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rov… More...

This is how the energetic universe looks like eROSITA X-ray telescope - Tech Explorist This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than one million objects, roughly doubling the number of known X-ray sources discovered over the 60-year history of X-ray astronomy. More...

NASA names first female Director of Human Spaceflight - New Europe NASA on Friday announced that Kathy Lueders will be the agency’s first female director of human spaceflight. “Kathy Lueders has been selected to lead  @NASA’s Human Exploration & Operations Mission Directorate. Kathy has successfully managed both the Comme… More...

How quantum computers could make future humans immortal - The Next Web As best we can guess, life started on planet Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. Unfortunately, so did death. And the reaper remains undefeated. About 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. There’s almost no scientific reason to believe hum… More...

Rare 'ring of fire' solar eclipse to dim Africa, Asia - Deccan Herald Skywatchers along with a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India, and southern China will witness on Sunday the most dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse to shadow the Earth in years. Annular eclipses occur when the Moon -- passing betwe… More...

CERN backs 100 km Future Circle Collider - NEWS9 live CERN has given approval for a mammoth £19 billion project that would involve the construction of FCC – a next generation particle accelerator that will be fo... More...

NASAs next Mars Rover to honour all medical workers fighting the Coronavirus Battle - Republic World - Republic World NASA will honour all the medical workers on the front lines of the coronavirus battle around the world in its mission to the Red Planet- 'Mars 2020 Perseverance More...

NASA is preparing an interplanetary mission to Neptune and its satellite Triton - The Times Hub More...

Vice President Pence congratulates history-making NASA astronauts in call to space station - Space.com Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley reached the orbiting lab aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule. More...

Planets must be formed early, study finds - Phys.org Scientists have found evidence that planets form in a blink of an eye on a cosmic scale. New results, obtained using the combined power of Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and Very Large Array (VLA), show that very young disks, with ages o… More...

Some human brain tissue holds traces of Neanderthal DNA - BGR Neanderthals mixed with humans a long time ago, but after they died out their DNA lived on in a large segment of the human population. A new study reveals that lab-grown brain tissue contains bits of Neanderthal DNA that could be used in future studies to rev… More...

Annular Solar Eclipse 2020: Here's How You Can Watch The Rare Event - India Times This is a year of never-before-seen events and, well, a rare type of solar eclipse is going to take place this week across the world as the sun, the moon and the earth align. A total solar eclipse takes place when the moon is far away from earth and unable co… More...

Physicists Detect Unexplained Particle Interactions While Searching For Dark Matter - ScienceAlert Deep beneath the mountains of Gran Sasso in Italy, the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment has made a surprise detection. No, it's not dark matter. Instead, the experiment has detected significantly more particle interaction events than pre More...

Plants Can Camouflage Their Smells to Prevent Being Eaten, Finds New Study - News18 The study could also help scientists better understand how information is passed between different species in the food chain. More...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover to honor medical teams fighting COVID-19 - Firstpost With only a month till liftoff, the team revealed a commemorative plate on the rover – the COVID-19 Perseverance plate – designed in the last few weeks. More...

Scientists discover dinosaur 'larger than a T-Rex' once roamed Australia | 7NEWS - 7NEWS Australia A study of dinosaur footprints found in southern Queensland 50 years ago has revealed Australia had its own giant carnivores. The prints were found in the 19... More...

Bright patches on Titan are nothing but dry lake beds - Tech Explorist Strange bright patches on Titan observed 20 years ago are likely are likely the beds of dried-up hydrocarbon lakes and seas, a new study reports. More...

SpaceX wants to build offshore spaceports for hypersonic flights around Earth - Geospatial World SpaceX is hiring "offshore operations engineers" to help develop floating spaceports for Starship, its next-gen transportation system designed to take people to and from the moon, Mars and anywhere on Earth they want to go. "SpaceX is building floating, super… More...

Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe - BBC News A new Russian-German space observatory produces the most detailed ever all-sky image seen in X-rays. More...

Only 110 people required for Martian colony - NEWS9 live Just 110 people are required to start a colony on Mars as per a mathematic model by Professor Jean-Marc Salotti of Bordeaux Institute for National Polytechni... More...

Shedding new light on solar flares - Tech Explorist Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. More...

Astronomers discover ‘cosmic baby’, youngest-known magnetar that is 240-yrs-old - Hindustan Times Called Swift J1818.0-1607, the neutron star was first discovered in March this year when it released a massive burst of X-rays. Follow-up studies later revealed more details about the star including its age. More...

Astronomers detect rhythmic fast radio bursts from unknown source outside galaxy - Republic World - Republic World Astronomers and researchers have detected on “curious, repeating” rhythm of fast radio bursts emerging from an unidentified source outside the Milky Way. More...

Space to Ground: Alpha Guys: 06/19/2020 - NASA Johnson NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Got a question or comment? Use #AskNASA to talk to u... More...

Earth-like planets and ocean worlds could be common in our galaxy, studies say - CNN New estimates and calculations suggest that there are more Earth-like planets and ocean worlds in our galaxy, according to new research by astronomers published this week. There may be as many as 6 billion Earth-like planets across our galaxy. More...

PriestmanGoode's Neptune balloon will fly passengers to the edge of space - Dezeen Transport design studio PriestmanGoode has developed a high-performance balloon and pressurised capsule for Space Perspective to take space tourists on a "cr... More...

Shiny & Metallic Meteorite Piece Falls From Sky in India's Rajasthan - Sputnik International New Delhi (Sputnik): The celestial object has blown the mind of netizens as it appears to be very attractive and glittery. While some are calling it "fascinating"... More...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Observed Two Stars Go ‘Haywire’ - Mashable India Astronomers have observed two distant planetary nebulas that have mesmerising shapes and colours resembling a butterfly and a jewel bug respectively. More...

NASA says an asteroid three times the size of Big Ben will skim past Earth next week - Mirror Online NASA says the asteroid, dubbed 441987 (2010 NY65), is estimated to measure around 140 m - 310 metres in diameter More...

Green glow in Mars atmosphere - Telangana Today The European Space Agency's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spotted an emerald glow in Mars' wispy atmosphere, marking the first time the phenomenon has been spotted on a world beyond Earth. One of the brightest emissions seen on Earth stems from night glow. More spe… More...

The Space Station's New Toilet Will Undergo Mars Mission Conditions - Newsweek The International Space Station's two Russian toilets will be joined by the American-made Universal Waste Management System, which will also be used in future deep space exploration. More...

Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs - GeekWire Boeing is realigning its top managers for the space station program — and for the program that’s working to send Starliner capsules there and back. More...

I spy a 'ring of fire' in the sky - Mid-day Safety is key as you gear up to watch the annular solar eclipse on June 21 More...

Good places to be for ring-of-fire solar eclipse: Dehradun, Kurukshetra, Gharsana - Deccan Chronicle More...

The Whirlwind Path of Human Evolution - The Wire New collaborations between scientific fields, and in particular between the natural and social sciences, has allowed us to look 'at ourselves with new eyes'. More...