Fifty years ago, NASA put a car on the moon - Eminetra.com Dave Scott wasn't trying to pass the funny rocks without stopping. It was July 31, 1971, and he and his fellow Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin were the first to drive the Moon. After a six-hour inaugura More...
Astronomers show how planets form in binary systems without getting crushed - Phys.org Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. More...
7-yr-old girl helps NASA discover 7 asteroids; Meet the world's youngest astronomer - IBTimes India At the age of two, she asked her mother for a star and her parents handed over a toy star to her. It's only later they came to know what she truly meant by a star More...
What will Russia`s `Nauka` do at the International Space Station? - WION Russias brand new Nauka laboratory module meant for the International Space Station(ISS) had blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan last week aboard the Proton rocket after years of delay. More...
Magnetic 'balding' of black holes saves general relativity prediction - Science Daily Magnetic fields around black holes decay quickly, researchers report. This finding backs up the so-called 'no-hair conjecture' predicted by Einstein's general relativity. More...
NASA says CubeSat with plasma thrusters may set new deep space record - SlashGear Multiple payloads will be launched into space with the Orion spacecraft using the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Two of these secondary payloads will be CubeSats designed for deep space, includi… More...
Indian astronomers part of team that detected 'fizzled shortest gamma-ray burst' - Republic World A group of astronomers, including from India, have detected a very short, powerful burst of high-energy radiation that lasted for about a second. More...
Apollo 15: How did NASA put a car on the moon? - Jagran Josh Apollo 15 was the successful mission of NASA after the failed missions of Apollo from 11-13. This mission provided for a car to be driven on the moon. More...
Scientific Publishing Organizations and National Laboratories Partner on Transgender-Inclusive Name-Change Process for Published Papers | Berkeley Lab - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. Lawren… More...
‘Olympic Games light up the night’: NASA shares stunning image of Tokyo from International Space Station - Firstpost According to NASA’s post, the photo was captured by astronaut Shane Kimbrough. He is currently the Commander of NASA SpaceX Crew-2 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) More...
The first three minutes: going backward to the beginning of time with Steven Weinberg (Part 1) - Big Think The great theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg passed away on July 23. This is our tribute. More...
How do 'Tatooine' planets survive with 2 suns? - Space.com It's hard for an exoplanet to keep itself together in the neighborhood of two parent stars. More...
University of Exeter: Earth’s vital signs worsen amid business-as-usual mindset on climate change - India Education Diary The international team – led by Oregon State University (OSU) and including the Global Systems Institute (GSI) at the University of Exeter – track 31 vital signs, and their latest paper finds record-breaking results in 18 of these.Records include hig More...
Scientists Detect Powerful Energy Burst from Exploding Star - Nerdist Astronomers have detected a powerful gamma-ray burst coming from a collapsing star that went supernova 6.6 billion years ago. More...
Neanderthal blood study hints at one possible reason they went extinct - Inverse Scientists analyze the blood groups of Denisovans and Neanderthals for the first time, leading to a better understanding of human evolution. More...
Stars can experience midlife crisis: Study by Indian, Nepalese astrophysicists explain why - Hindustan Times Stars can experience a midlife crisis and transition into an inactive phase, according to a research paper by astrophysicists from Nepal and India | Mumbai news More...
Ingenuity completes 10th flight on Mars, Perseverance starts search for life - NASASpaceFlight.com - NASASpaceflight.com On July 24, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter successfully completed its 10th and most daring… More...
It’s Time NASA Built A ‘Cosmic Dawn’ Telescope On The Moon—And It Has Four Astonishing Plans To Choose From - Forbes Revealed: four amazing concepts for telescopes on the lunar surface. More...
Storyboard | Can marketers conquer Space? - Moneycontrol.com Brands have gone to Space before, but a new age of Space travel and tourism could provide more opportunities to hitch a ride. More...
The amazing structure of the red planet was finally revealed after 2 years of analysis - Nintendo-Power Scientists have now discovered how it was created Internal structure of Tuesday. Find out all that reveals This article or section needs sources or More...
Choice between Physics and Biology propels Swati Mohan to NASA - Economic Times Swati, who was part of the Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission, said her decision to opt to study physics in high school helped to pursue her passion at NASA. More...
Musk's SpaceX to launch NASA's Europa mission for $178m - Siliconrepublic.com NASA has selected SpaceX's rocket Falcon Heavy to launch its Europa Clipper mission, which will see the agency assess Jupiter's moon. More...
Unique Planet “With No Known Equivalent” Photobombs Exoplanet-Hunting Satellite - SciTechDaily While exploring two exoplanets in a bright nearby star system, ESA’s exoplanet-hunting Cheops satellite has unexpectedly spotted the system’s third known planet crossing the face of the star. This transit reveals exciting details about a rare planet “with no … More...
Scientists warn they have no accurate way to predict when supervolcano explosions could occur - Daily Mail Experts said there is not a 'single model' that can help them understand how eruptions from supervolcanoes happen after looking at evidence of 13 supereruptions from the past 2 million years More...
The Fate of gymnastics enchant Italy and the world, it is an epochal undertaking: We have given everything - The Times Hub Italy and the world pay homage to the fairies of artistic gymnastics. Alice D’Amato, Asia D’Amato, Vanessa Ferrari and Martina Maggio have narrowly missed the conquest of the bronze medal in the final of the artistic gymnastics of the Tokyo Olympics. But desp… More...
NASA cites Falcon flight heritage to select SpaceX to launch Europa Clipper - NASASpaceFlight.com - NASASpaceflight.com On Friday, July 23, NASA announced that SpaceX was the winner of a commercial procurement… More...
Turning diapers into sticky notes: Using chemical recycling to prevent millions of tons of waste - Phys.org Every year, 3.5 million metric tons of sodden diapers end up in landfills. More...
Honeybees are Skilled Architects, New Research Confirms | Biology - Sci-News.com Using automated image analysis of naturally built honeycombs, scientists have found that some building configurations are more difficult for the bees than others. More...
Hubble Space Telescope delivers first images since shutdown - News Nation USA NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has delivered its first images since the telescope's payload computer suddenly halted on June 13. The pictures show a galaxy with what the agency calls "extended sp More...
The UN named the number of near-Earth asteroids and comets :: Society :: RBC - The Times Hub Scientists have identified only about 40% of large asteroids and comets approaching the Earth, according to the report of the scientific and technical subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (.pdf). In 2020, astronomical observato… More...
Caunes-Minervois. Immediate launch of space at the Benedictine monastery - Awani Review primary Mar: We're already there! This is the evening presented by the Audoise Hélios Astronomie on Thursday, in the grandiose setting of the abbey More...
Indian Astronomers Part of Team That Spotted the Shortest Gamma-Ray Burst - News18 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...
Incredible Fossil Discovery Shows Ancient Animal Brain From 310 Million Years Ago - ScienceAlert Charles Darwin famously discussed the "imperfections" of the geological record in his book On The Origin of Species. He correctly pointed out that unless conditions are just right, it's unlikely for organisms to be preserved as fossils, even those wi More...
Delta Aquáridas, a meteor on July 30 - Sunday Vision After a month wrapped Planetary conjunctions NS moon phases, the Delta Aquarids meteor shower It will close with a flower a month JulyHowever, rain and More...
Remains of Giant Vampire Bat From 100,000 Years Ago Found in Argentinian Cave - ScienceAlert The jawbone of a bat that lived 100,000 years ago has been confirmed as belonging to an extinct species of giant vampire bat. More...
France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers - Science Magazine A 2019 death from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was linked to a lab accident; a similar case is now under investigation More...
Map of Black Holes: German scientists create the first all-sky map showing millions of black holes - DNA India Created with data from a German space telescope, this is the most detailed all-sky map showing millions of black holes and neutron stars. More...
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya students detectasteroids under the Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign 2021 initiated by the Office of Principal Scientific Adviser and SPACE Foundation - Odisha Diary New Delhi : Khagolshala Asteroid Search Campaign or KASC trains students of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas to detect asteroids. The campaign is an initiative of the Office of Principal Scientific Advi… More...
Why NASA might rename its flagship space telescope honoring James Webb, an anti-LGBT official - Yahoo India News The infrared James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is ready to launch in November 2021. However, the NASA telescope is under heavy scrutiny due to anti-LGBT... More...
Fitbits show even baboons find it hard going to walk somewhere with a toddler - Daily Mail The daily journeys of a troop of 25 baboons at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya were recorded as part of a study into the movement of wild primates by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. More...
Giant friction experiment at Kīlauea volcano | Stanford News - Stanford University News A new analysis of the 2018 collapse of Kīlauea volcano’s caldera helps to confirm the reigning scientific paradigm for how friction works on earthquake faults. The model quantifies the conditions necessary to initiate the kind of caldera collapse that sustain… More...
Finding the source of the impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs - Phys.org The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 66 million years ago likely came from the outer half of the main asteroid belt, a region previously thought to produce few impactors. Researchers from Southwest Research … More...
This snake-like robot can burrow into Earth now; NASA may even send it on a moon trip - HT Tech From below earth onto the moon and perhaps even to Jupiter's moon Enceladus! Just check out this fascinating snake-like robot. More...
Harvard's 'Galileo Project' to Solve the Mystery of UFOs, Interstellar Objects - News18 In June 2021, when the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force submitted its report to the United States Congress, the intelligence team admitted that the nature of the majority of the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) or unidentified flying objects (UFOs… More...
Was Lord Kelvin wrong? 3D-printed shape casts doubt on his 150-year-old theory - Livescience.com Isotropic helicoids are meant to rotate as they move through a fluid. Now physicists are not so sure. More...
They discover that the interior of the Earth ‘swallows’ much more CO2 than previously believed - Market Research Telecast Recently, a group of scientists from Cambridge University (UK) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) has discovered that a complex tectonic process drags more carbon into the Earth than originally thought. This process is known as ... Read more More...
Buzz Aldrin Had Go Through Customs After Spending 22 Hours on the Moon - News18 Have you ever heard of astronauts submitting their customs forms when they returned from the moon? Former American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, who was part of 1969 Apollo 11 mission, shared a customs form on his Twitter handle saying: “Imagine spending 8 days in s… More...