EU to get serious about its space ventures; will plou.. money in order to keep up with Chinese, US ambitions - Firstpost The EU budget will be used to support new technology to launch rockets, including reusable ones, said European Commissioner Thierry Breton. More...

Yes! Asteroids Killed The Dinosaurs And Not Volcanoes, Says Study; Researchers Say 'It's the Only Plausible E - India.com A new study has confirmed that an asteroid impact was the primary reason behind the extinction of dinosaurs. More...

SpaceX launches third GPS Block III satellite - Geospatial World SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket with the third Block III Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, named SV03. Block III is the next generation of GPS satellites, replacing the aging Block II series. This will be SpaceX’s second GPS launch, out of the … More...

South Pole Has Warmed Three Times Faster Than The Rest Of The Planet: Study - ScoopWhoop According to a study, over the past three decades, South Pole has been warming at a rate which is thrice times the global average. More...

Buck moon eclipse this weekend - FOX59 News A buck moon eclipse will cause the moon to look darker on July 4 and 5. More...

Asteroids: The small planets in our Solar System you probably never knew about! - Oneindia Why do we mark World Asteroid Day. Do we know when the next asteroid will strike earth and how prepared are we for it? Join us for a live chat on many interesting facts you probably never knew about asteroids. More...

Gigantic Star Has Suddenly Vanished Without a Trace - Interesting Engineering A massive star 2.5 million times brighter than the sun has suddenly vanished in a cosmic mystery. More...

Global warming has undone 6,500 years of worldwide cooling in the last 150 years - Firstpost Accelerating greenhouse gases have contributed to global average temperatures that are now moving past one degree Celsius above the mid-19th century. More...

NASA Astronauts Take Space Walk to Upgrade ISS Batteries - New Delhi Times NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Robert Behnken were once again outside the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday on the second of two scheduled space walks to upgrade the station’s batteries. The astronauts began the project Friday, a spacewalk that w… More...

Wind blows, ground moves on Mars, says study after INSIGHT lander findings - India International Times A new study by researchers at Kyushu University’s International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research, Fukuoka in  Japan after comparing findings of Mars Insight lander after comparing with our own planet Earth, found Mars might seem like a “dead” plan… More...

NASA's Lunar Loo challenge - Toilet design - Economic Times America’s space agency - NASA - is on the search for designs for a lavatory that will work both in lunar gravity and microgravity. Toilet design More...

What an ocean hidden under Antarctic ice reveals about the future of our planet's climate - Firstpost Research shows that if warming exceeds 2℃, major ice shelves would collapse, releasing ice, lifting the sea level by up to three metres by 2300. More...

New insight into bacterial DNA packing - Tech Explorist Berkeley Lab-led team of scientists has been able to capture genes adaption process at the molecular level using advanced imaging techniques. This discovery could eventually enable scientists to develop strategies to control microbial behavior. More...

Higher Concentration of metal in Moon’s craters provides new insights to its origin - India Education Diary New Delhi: Life on Earth would not be possible without the Moon; it keeps our planet’s axis of rotation stable, which controls seasons and regulates our climate. However, there has been considerabl… More...

How NASA's new rover will search for signs of ancient life on Mars - Science Magazine If NASA realizes its midsummer dream, a spacecraft will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, sometime between 22 July and 11 August, destined to ignite th... More...

Fastest-growing black hole in the universe eats the equivalent of one sun per day - ZME Science A Sun a day keeps dark matter away? More...

Ground-based discovery of two strongly interacting exoplanets - ANI News Paris [France], July 2 (ANI): Several interacting exoplanets have already been spotted by satellites. But a new breakthrough has been achieved with, for the first time, the detection directly from the ground of an extrasolar system of this type. More...

Researchers observe branched flow of light for the first time - Phys.org A team of researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has observed branched flow of light for the very first time. The findings are published in Nature and are featured on the cover of the July 2, 2020 issue. More...

New way to see RNA could help fight pathogens - Phys.org In genetics, DNA has always been the star of the show, but scientists are now uncovering the crucial roles of a lesser-known player: transfer RNA. More...

SpaceX launches GPS satellite - Tampa Bay Times SpaceX launched the military's newest GPS satellite Tuesday after a two-month delay due to the pandemic. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida's Cape Ca... More...

Spooky popcorn of the universe - quantum fluctuations can jiggle objects on the human scale - Nanowerk For the first time, researchers have measured the effects of quantum fluctuations on objects at the human scale. They observed that quantum fluctuations, tiny as they may be, can nonetheless 'kick' an object as large as a 40-kilogram mirror. More...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope Just Saw A Massive Star Disappear! - Mashable India Astronomers have discovered that an incredibly massive star and the bright star has disappeared out of nowhere leaving no trace behind. More...

A stunning NASA time-lapse reveals a decade of the sun's solar flares, sunspots, and shifting magnetic energy - Business Insider India A mesmerizing time-lapse video from NASA chronicles the sun's activity over the last decade. Each second in the video represents a year of the sun's life, More...

Astronauts Perform Spacewalk to Swap Batteries - VOA News Astronauts performed their second spacewalk in under a week to replace old batteries outside the International Space Station, Wednesday, July 1. NASA plans t... More...

Exposed core of Jupiter-like planet, 39-times bigger than Earth, spotted near distant star - Hindustan Times The planet, called TOI-849b, orbits a star a bit smaller and cooler than the sun, located 730 light years from Earth. A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). More...

How Elon Musk's Starlink satellites may have stifled the best chance to find Planet 9 - CNN A new telescope in South America might, astronomers have hoped, decrypt some of the universe's mysteries and — assuming it exists — even provide the first glimpse of Planet Nine, a giant world that some scientists predict is lurking in the outskirts of our so… More...

How to watch the 'Independence Day' lunar eclipse - Livescience.com More...

Coronavirus cases in South Yorkshire four times higher than previously reported - Yorkshire Live It comes after Doncaster, Barnsley, Sheffield and Rotherham were all deemed COVID-19 hotspots More...

A black hole with the Ecumenical hunger eats the Sun in the day - The Times Hub More...

Higher metal concentration in Moon's craters provides new insights to its origin - Free Press Journal Scientists have found new evidence that the Moon's subsurface might be richer in metals, like iron and titanium, than previously thought. The study, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, sheds new light on the composition of the dust f… More...

Why Canadian Sparrows Have Changed Their Tune - NDTV Members of a Canadian sparrow species famous for their jaunty signature song are changing their tune, a curious example of a "viral phenomenon" in the animal kingdom, a study showed Thursday. More...