China's modern spacecraft returns to Earth successfully - Prensa Latina Beijing, May 8 (Prensa Latina) China's prototype spacecraft returned to Earth successfully on Friday, after following instructions from the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. More...

Roscosmos space agency invites NASA top officials to visit Russia - TASS "We have received no reply so far", in Russia’s space agency said More...

NASA's fifth and finest Mars rover Perseverance lifts off successfully in spite of tremors, delays, COVID-19 lockdown- Technology News, Firstpost - Best gaming pro tech2 Information EmployeesJul 30, 2020 22:29:29 IST The largest, most subtle Mars rover ever constructed — a car-size automobile bristling with cameras, microphones, drills and lasers — blasted off for the purple planet at this time, 30 July 2020. It was a p… More...

Indian researchers show how Covid-19 PPE can turn into biofuel - ETEnergyworld.com The research from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) in Uttarakhand shows how billions of items of disposable PPE can be converted from its polypropylene (plastic) state into biofuels More...

Explained: Sunspots, and why they occasionally spark worry - The Indian Express When a Sunspot reaches up to 50,000 km in diameter, it may release a huge amount of energy that can lead to solar flares. More...

Explained: What a new study has found about an ancient reptile whose neck was longer than its body - The Indian Express The Tanystropheus lived on Earth some 242 million years ago, around the Monte San Giorgio basin on the Swiss-Italian border. More...

Sub standard weather condition might prevent the redeployment of the Crew Dragon for Earth - Daily Research Photographer NASA as well as SpaceX are actually figuring out a method to offer fulfillment the Crew Dragon space capsule purpose. Negative weather condition is actually most likely to postpone the re-entry of this space capsule in to Earth. The Earth re-entry trip custom… More...

NASA maps Beirut blast damage through satellite images - WION The deadly Beirut explosion, that took nearly 165 lives, has caused severe damage in the city. To map the extent of this damage, NASA used satellite-derived data. More...

Jupiter Looks Like Pepperoni Pizza In This NASA Pic And We're Drooling - India Times Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and although not the most majestic, as many might argue (including me) that spot’s been taken by its neighbour Saturn, yet its gargantuan size is surely a sight to behold. NASAHowever, … More...

NASA probe spots Martian night sky pulsing in UV light - Sentinelassam - The Sentinel Assam New data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has shown vast areas of the Martian night sky pulsing in... More...

Huge sunspot turning towards Earth that may hit GPS, radio communications and more: Details - Times Now Scientists have found a sunspot the size of Mars which is said to be turning towards Earth and it could affect Global Positioning Systems (GPS) connectivity and radio communications. More...

New technology to amplify light using air - Tech Explorist In a promising breakthrough for the future of communications, EPFL researchers have developed a technology that can amplify light in the latest hollow-core optical fibers. More...

Laser Beams Finally Bounced Back to the Earth From the Moon - Interesting Engineering A group of scientists from NASA, in collaboration with the Université Côte d'Azur, France, have sent infrared lasers to the Moon and got it back. More...

Amazon satellites add to astronomers worries about the night sky - Business Standard Much of the attention on these strings of satellites has been placed on the prolific launches of SpaceX and OneWeb, but the focus is now turning to Amazon More...

Rare 'boomerang' earthquake observed along Atlantic Ocean fault line - Science Daily Scientists have tracked a 'boomerang' earthquake in the ocean for the first time, providing clues about how they could cause devastation on land. More...

Dwarf planet Ceres a water-rich world, finds NASA probe - The Rahnuma Daily Washington, Aug 11 (IANS) The dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, is not a barren space rock as earlier believed. New data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have shown that it is a water-rich world. After analysing dat… More...

Perseid Meteor Shower illuminate skies over the US. How to watch - Livemint The Perseid meteor shower is lighting up the sky above the United States More...

Broken cable damages giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico - The Tribune India Arecibo Observatory featured in Jodie Foster film “Contact” and James Bond movie “GoldenEye” More...

Irish parents warned to stop using brand of child's high chair due to 'suffocation' fears - Irish Mirror The consumer watchdog has issued a statement about the high chair More...

NASA shows the impact of Beirut blast using satellite data - The Indian Express The clearly visible red pixels on the map represent the area that was near the port of Beirut and faced the brunt of the explosion. Areas that are coloured orange suffered moderate damage whereas the ones in yellow endured less damage. More...

Visualize the Perseid meteor stream in space - EarthSky This visualization by Ian Webster and Peter Jenniskens uses NASA data to render known Perseid meteoroids in space. Don't miss this! More...

Perseid Meteor Shower: When and where to watch this celestial event on Aug 12 - Happytrips Get ready for an amazing star-gazing experience tonight as the Perseid Meteor Shower will be the high point after sundown on August 12. This is believed to be one of the best meteor showers of 2020, owing to its high rates and normal pre-Autumnal weather. More...

Germany to host pop concert for 4,000 people specifically to test the spread of Coronavirus - Jagran English Germany will host a large scale singing concert to assess how countries can go back to corded events amid COVID 19 pandemic More...

SpaceX Starlink satellites will be visible again this week - here's when to catch a glimpse - Wales Online Eagle-eyed stargazers will have several opportunities to spot the satellites as they track across the night skies More...

Boxgrove: how we found Europe's oldest bone tools – and what we learned about their makers - The Conversation UK The Boxgrove people, like all other human species, were capable of sharing time, care and knowledge in all parts of their life. More...

NASA Astronaut Shares Mesmerizing Photos of the Galapagos Islands Taken from Space - News18 Galapagos Islands are a group of volcanic islands that lie in the Pacific Ocean and are part of Ecuador. More...

NASA suspects asteroid Psyche is core of planet that never fully formed, models ‘metal world’ ahead of 2022 mission - RT Scientists using a supercomputer have created 2D and 3D computer models of the pockmarked asteroid Psyche, revealing that it may be the metal core of a failed planet. More...

Monstrous Crocodiles 'Deinosuchuas' with Banana-sized Teeth Terrorised Dinosaurs Millions of Years Ago - News18 An enormous prehistoric reptile called a “terror crocodile” with teeth "as big as bananas" preyed on dinosaurs, according to a new study. More...

Scientists have identified the scent that makes some locusts swarm. They could use the pheromone to trap and k - Business Insider India Large locust swarms have been destroying crops in parts of Africa and Asia this year, which could cause millions of people to go hungry. These insects alternate More...

Spider silk inspires new class of functional synthetic polymers - EurekAlert Synthetic polymers have changed the world around us. However, It is hard to finely tune some of their properties, such as the ability to transport ions. To overcome this problem, assistant professor Giuseppe Portale decided to take inspiration from nature and… More...

New insights into star formation in small galaxies - ANI News Stockholm [Sweden], Aug 12 (ANI): An international research team has found that dormant small galaxies can slowly accumulate gas over many billions of years. More...

NASA satellite finds 66 new exoplanets, 2,100 more ‘candidates’ - National Herald During its 2 year long primary mission, NASA’s planet hunter TESS has found 66 new exoplanets, or worlds beyond our solar system, as well as nearly 2,100 candidates astronomers are working to confirm More...

Researchers unlock secrets of the past with new international carbon dating standard - WebWire The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international colleagues, used measurements from almost 15,000 samples from objects dating back as far as 60,000 years ago, as p… More...

Horrifying Images Reveal Bizarre Parasite That Replaces Tongue of Its Fish Host and Feeds on Blood - Newsweek The parasite is a type of isopod—an ancient order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. More...

'Black dwarf supernova': Physicist calculates when the last supernova ever will happen - Nanowerk The end of the universe as we know it will not come with a bang. Most stars will very, very slowly fizzle as their temperatures fade to zero. More...

Chemists discover way to make new nitrogen products 'out of thin air' - Phys.org A nifty move with nitrogen has brought the world one step closer to creating a range of useful products—from dyes to pharmaceuticals—out of thin air. More...

'Oldest acknowledged cremation in the Center East' was 9000 several years ago - haveeruonline 'Oldest regarded cremation in the Center East' is uncovered to be a younger adult who was wounded by a flint projectile numerous months in advance of More...

SMART researchers discover new way to reverse antibiotic resistance in some bacteria - News-Medical.net Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new way to reverse antibiotic resistance in some bacteria using hydrogen sulphide (H2S). More...

'There's a whole lot to see:' meteor shower & various planets light up night time sky | NanaimoNewsNOW - Aviation Analysis Wing “Some yrs we get a actually thick patch of particles and get a definitely very good show, other yrs it is a little little bit fewer thick, but it is More...

Scientists win grant to study brain's role in tracking odors - News-Medical.Net Seeking to unravel the mystery of how animals follow scent, a team of scientists from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbia University, have won a grant to peer deeply inside the brain as the proce… More...

NASA Launched Laser Beams at the Moon – For the First Time, They Received a Signal Back - SciTechDaily Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced today, in collaboration with their French colleagues, that the… More...

NASA’s Juno craft has found some weird stuff in Jupiter’s atmosphere - Digital Trends NASA's Juno spacecraft has found some striking oddities in the planet's atmosphere, including a different type of lightning and slushy hail mushballs. More...

Fossil Hunters in England Unearth Bones of New Dinosaur Species, Cousin to T.Rex - News18 The new dinosaur, which has been named Vectaerovenator inopinatus, lived in the Cretaceous period 115 million years ago and was estimated to have been up to four metres long, the palaeontologists said. More...

Scientists Document Rare 'Boomerang' Earthquake on Atlantic Seafloor For First Time Ever - The Weather Channel Boomerang is an object that, when thrown, can fly back to its original position. Now, researchers have noticed a similar pattern in an earthquake that occurred under the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. More...