Moon-Forming Disk Captured Around Exoplanets Resembling Saturn and Jupiter; PDS 70 System May Support Theories on How Planets and Moons Form - Science Times Astronomy experts discovered a distant system that is comprised of planets resembling Saturn and Jupiter. Both of the planets are in their early formation stage, with one of them having a moon-forming disk. More...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Lands $178 Million Contract With NASA For Mission To Jupiter's Moon Europa - Mashable India It has recently come to light that Elon Musk's SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer, space transportation services and communications company, was awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon Eu… More...

Indian astronomers part of team spotting unique Gamma-ray burst - The Statesman "Such a discovery has helped resolve the long-standing issues related to Gamma-ray bursts. Also, this study triggers to re-analyse all such known events to constrain number densities better," More...

Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2: Live updates - Space.com Read live updates of Boeing's second uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft, scheduled to launch to the International Space Station on July 30. More...

The unnoticed eye motions that help us see the world - Nature.com Eye movements lasting only a few hundredths of a second create an information-laden ‘smear’ on the retina. More...

Selenium may support deep microbial life in Earth's continental crust - Phys.org International drilling efforts over the last decades into the seafloor have provided increasing evidence for the existence of an extensive deep biosphere below the seafloor. There, circulating fluids in the sub-seafloor deliver chemical compounds from which e… More...

NASA's Perseverance rover to collect its first rock sample from Mars - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside Details: Some of these samples are expected to be chosen because they may contain preserved signs of ancient life within them, but this first sample More...

NASA's Hubble Telescope Finds Evidence Of Water Vapour In Jupiter's Moon - NDTV Astronomers have uncovered the first evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede by using new and archival datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. More...

Researchers observe never before seen short gamma-ray burst from collapsing star - Hindustan Times Astronomers believe that short gamma-ray bursts of less than two seconds originate when two black holes, two neutron stars, or a black hole and a neutron star merge with each other | Latest News India More...

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captures seventh of eight Features of Jupiter’s ‘string of pearls&... - http://www.newsgram.com/ NASA's Juno spacecraft captured the seventh of eight features forming a 'string of pearls'- the US space agency said on Wednesday More...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Wishes Troubled Boeing Starliner Mission Luck - http://www.newsgram.com/ The unmanned Boeing Starliner spacecraft, launched on Friday, didn't reach the planned orbit, but SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent his best wishes to the mission. More...

Russia’s Pirs ISS module will be sunk on July 24 - TASS Pirs was launched to the ISS on September 15, 2001 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome More...

Japan Presents New Space Resource Law; Plans to Join the Return to the Moon - Science Times A new space resource law had been passed by Japan, showing the government's interest towards space relations, lunar industrialization, and the country's economic comeback. More...

This India born physicist has an ambitious plan to unravel hidden mysteries of the universe - India Today Dr Karan Jani, an astrophysicist with Vanderbilt University, has proposed setting up a gravitational wave infrastructure on the Moon to look deep into the workings of the universe. More...

Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought - Phys.org Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth's interior than previously thought. More...

Google's AI solves 50-year-old protein problem, discovers 3D structures of 20,000 proteins - Republic World Google's DeepMind solves a 50-year-old protein problem, capable of predicting the 3-D structures of nearly all 20,000 proteins expressed by humans. More...

Astronomers see a moon forming outside the solar system for the first time - Market Research Telecast The observations made from the Chilean Atacama desert by the ALMA radio telescope set have made it possible to see a moon in formation 370 light years from Earth, in a young star system and ... Read more More...

Another Giant Asteroid Is Heading Toward Earth - ComicBook.com There is yet another giant asteroid the size of a skyscraper headed toward Earth, at an estimated speed of 18,000 MPH. NASA alerted the world about the oncoming celestial object - but noted that there is no real cause for concern (yet) that Armaggeddon is her… More...

What happens to marine life when oxygen is scarce? - Phys.org In September 2017, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution postdoctoral scholar Maggie Johnson was conducting an experiment with a colleague in Bocas del Toro off the Caribbean coast of Panama. After sitting on a quiet, warm open ocean, they snorkeled down to fi… More...

Better understanding of Earth's atmospheric chemistry from the study of Mars - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside Using four martian years of observations from the SPICAM (Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Mars) instrument, More...

Sheveluch volcano (Kamchatka, Russia): lava dome Dolphin-2 destroyed - VolcanoDiscovery Shiveluch volcano (Kamchatka): news & eruption updates More...

International team of astronomers to look for evidence of alien technology - Firstpost The project was announced a month after the Pentagon released a report about unidentified aerial phenomena, which stated that their nature was unclear. More...

How do planets form in binary systems? - Tech Explorist Astronomers show how planets form in binary systems without getting crushed. More...

The Standard Model Is An Orphan Theory Now - Forbes Only the best physical theories outlast the minds that invented them. More...

'Talking drum' shown to accurately mimic speech patterns of west African language - Phys.org Musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton are considered virtuosos, guitarists who could make their instruments sing. Drummers in west Africa who play hourglass-shaped percussion instruments called dùndúns can make their instrument not only sing, but ta… More...

Hubble finds evidence of water vapour on Jupiter Moon - Daijiworld.com Washington, Jul 27 (IANS): Astronomers have, for the first time, uncovered evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This water vapour forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates -- that … More...

Under pressure, 'squishy' compound reacts in remarkable ways - Phys.org Remarkable things happen when a "squishy" compound of manganese and sulfide (MnS2) is compressed in a diamond anvil, say researchers from the University of Rochester and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). More...

Find Out How Earth's Core is Swallowing A Lot of Carbon: New Data Available - Optic Flux A new study highlights Earth’s current situation and is worse than we previously imagined. According to a team of scientists from NTU Singapore and Cambridge University, our planet experiences something quite peculiar yet shocking. The slow-motion collisions … More...

Oh Good, Now There's an Outbreak of Wildfire Thunderclouds - WIRED Huge pyrocumulonimbus clouds just formed over fires in the West. Here’s why they could become more common on a warmer planet. More...

Ancient origins of photosynthesis: Revealing the mysteries - Tech Explorist Evolutionary ‘molecular clock’ experiment to reveal origins of photosynthesis. More...

Seven-year-old Brazilian girl discovers 7 asteroids for NASA, becomes worlds youngest astronomer - Firstpost Nicole Oliveira has been honoured by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration for her inputs in asteroid searches. More...

Breaking Barriers: Meet Priyanka Srivastava, Lucknow girl behind NASA's Mars mission - Oneindia Lucknow's Priyanka Srivastava was one of the 9 Indians who contributed in the landing of NASA's Perseverance Rover successfully on Mars.Priyanka is a systems engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and has worked on three NASA Flight Missions from de… More...

EXPLAINED: Meteor, Meteoroid, Meteorite. How They Are Different And What's The Danger From Space Rocks - News18 Residents of Oslo were greeted on July 25 night to a bright flash of light and loud bangs as a reported meteorite shrieked through the skies and landed in a forest near the Norwegian capital. More...

Science Made Simple: What Is Fusion Energy Science? - SciTechDaily Fusion energy science is a multi-disciplinary field focused on the science needed to develop an energy source based on a controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction. Fusion occurs when two nuclei combine to form a new nucleus. This process occurs in our Sun and … More...

Global project observes rare meteor showers and meteorite falls - Phys.org As billionaires battle it out in a space race that only a handful of the world's richest persons can play, a highly inclusive international project is looking in the other direction–what's flying towards Earth–and all are welcome. More...

Marsquakes reveal the mysterious interior of the red planet - CNN NASA's InSight lander and its instruments have revealed some of the mysteries of the Martian crust, mantle and core that have eluded scientists until now. It's the first time we've been able to peer inside and map the interior of another planet beyond Earth. More...

'Significant work' remains ahead of Cop 26 - Argus Media Climate ministers made limited progress on key issues at informal talks held in London earlier this week ahead of November's UN climate summit Cop 26 in Glasgow. More...

Artificial intelligence in structural biology is here to stay - Nature.com Machine learning will transform our understanding of protein folding. And it’s essential that all data be open. More...

Indian Astronomers On Team Which Spotted Shortest Gamma-Ray Bursts From Dying Star - NDTV A group of astronomers, including from India, has detected a very short, powerful burst of high-energy radiation that lasted for about a second and had been racing towards the earth for nearly half the present age of the universe. More...

InSight finds molten core in the heart of the red planet - Astronomy Now - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside The martian crust turned out to be thinner than expected and may consist of two or possibly three sublayers, extending as much as 37 kilometres (23 miles) More...

New Technique Developed for Retrieving Nanowires from Electronic Devices - AZoNano A new economical technique to retrieve nanowires from electronic devices that have attained the end stage of their utility, which can then be used in new devices, could be a step forward in producing more sustainable electronics. More...

How to Watch Two Meteor Showers Peak at the Same Time - Lifehacker The Southern Delta Aquariids and the Alpha Capracornids are both lighting up the night sky this week. More...

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Discovered In Tibetan Glaciers - Intelligent Living Like a horror movie, all kinds of ancient creatures emerge from the melting permafrost as global temperatures rise. Not all of them are lifeless. For example, microscopic 24,000-year-old multicellular invertebrates called Bdelloid rotifers, a class of rotifer… More...

LIVE: NASA Gives a Briefing Ahead of Boeing Uncrewed Starliner Test Flight ... - Latest Tweet by Reuters - LatestLY The latest Tweet by Reuters states, 'LIVE: NASA gives a briefing ahead of Boeing uncrewed Starliner test flight ...' More...

Why does gravity pull us down and not up? - Livescience.com Here's why the force of gravity pulls us down rather than up. The answer involves Einstein and the bendy realm of space-time. More...

University of Glasgow: New Imaging System Brings Brains Into Sharper Focus - India Education Diary One of the greatest challenges in science is the study of the brain’s anatomy and cellular architecture.Accurately visualising the brain’s complex structure at high resolutions is critically important for improving our understanding of the functions More...

On the hunt for 'hierarchical' black holes - Nanowerk Black holes, detected by their gravitational wave signal as they collide with other black holes, could be the product of much earlier parent collisions. Such an event has only been hinted at so far, but scientists believe we are getting close to tracking down… More...

Explained: Key NASA telescope in centre of LGBT debate - The Indian Express According to an article published in the journal Nature, NASA does not have a shortlist of names as of now. Bill Nelson, the NASA administrator who is likely to make the final decision, has not said anything on this publicly. More...

Mergers, twists, and pentagons: the architecture of honeycombs - Ars Technica Most honeycombs are perfect hexagons—but bees manage complex exceptions. More...

Indian astronomers with other scientists spot unique Gamma-ray burst - Free Press Journal A group of astronomers, few of them Indians, have detected a very short, powerful burst of high-energy radiation that lasted for about a second and had been racing towards Earth for nearly half the present age of the universe. More...