Could You Pass This Astronaut Aptitude Test? - Mental Floss Think you've got what it takes to follow in the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin? Take this Astronaut Test and find out. More...

Nauka module docking incident caused by guidance algorithms — Roscosmos - TASS According to the Roscosmos chief, it was hard to predict how the system would behave More...

Astronomers observe “shrapnel” of supernova debris moving at maximum speed towards the edge of ... - Market Research Telecast To some 2,000 light years from Earth, Astronomers from Boston University (USA) detected a fast-moving star known as LP 40-365. But technically, that cosmic object is no longer a star. They are remnants of massive ... Read more More...

We Can't Stop Looking at These Stunning Impact Craters on Mars - ScienceAlert On dusty, dry, arid Mars, the landscape is stark and bare. No oceans or lakes, no forests, certainly no cities. The result is a world almost utterly alien, its scarred surface exposed under an orange sky. More...

The first attempt to collect samples from Mars turns out to be empty - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside Skip to main content Credit: NASA The Martian surface delivered a bit of a surprise late last week as NASA’s Perseverance rover tried to acquire its first More...

ESA, NASA spacecrafts to make 2 Venus flybys - Sentinelassam - The Sentinel Assam Two spacecrafts, part of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US space Agency NASA, are set to... More...

Scientists discover origin of dinosaur-killing asteroid, and it is dark [details] - IBTimes India The asteroid that hit the earth around 66 million years ago was 6 miles wide More...

What Did NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Find In Space? 'Important Finding' To Be Shared Tomorrow - ABP Live NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, launched five years ago, is on its way back to Earth with samples of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu. More...

Earth’s energy budget is out of balance: How does energy flow and what this means for climate change - Firstpost Our climate is determined by these energy flows. When the amount of energy coming in is more than the energy going out, the planet warms up More...

Dawn Aerospace will boost the constellation of tsunami warning satellites of the Indonesian Space Agency - SatNews - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside With Indonesia’s history of earthquakes and tsunamis, a new Tsunami Warning System (TWS) is expected to save countless lives and result in economic More...

Warm terrestrial planet with half the mass of Venus transiting a nearby star - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside L 98-59 is a bright M dwarf located 10.6 pc away. Positioned at the border of the continuous viewing zone of the James Webb Space Telescope, this system More...

UBC Vancouver: First new carnivorous plant identified by botanists in 20 years - India Education Diary The delicate stalk and pretty white flowers of Triantha occidentalis may seem like the perfect place to perch if you’re an insect, but get trapped in its sticky hairs and it will suck the nutrients from your dead corpse.That’s the surprising new find More...

Hybrid and digital education is booming thanks to corona - The Times Hub Seminars, conferences, one-day and multi-day training courses had one thing in common: they mainly took place on location. Until the corona pandemic broke out. Mass working from home has given alternative forms a boost and all these forms of education now tak… More...

Scientists discover enormous structure warping around our galaxy - TweakTown Astronomers have found a massive galactic structure extending around the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study. More...

NASA, Chandra X-Ray Observatory Detect 'Ripples' From Black Hole's X-Ray Burst - Tech Times NASA reports that an extremely powerful X-ray burst from a black hole almost 8,000 light-years away has caused ripples in space dust. More...

Extremophiles: resilient microorganisms that help us understand our past - and future - The Conversation UK How do organisms survive extreme conditions – and how can their adaptations help us develop better technology? More...

Using sea lampreys' natural instincts against them - Phys.org Sea lampreys are a destructive invasive species that has threatened native fisheries in the Great Lakes for decades. Multiple teams of Michigan State University researchers are finding ways to harness sea lampreys' natural instincts to monitor, capture and co… More...

Scientists Create Horrifically Mutated Spider-Like Creatures - Futurism You know, for science. More...

Powered by Star Wars and Cosmos, an SMU scientist studies what goes on beneath the surface of planets. - BollyInside - BollyInside Now his imagination has morphed into actual scientific research. Siegler, 40, is a research associate professor at SMU and a scientist with the Planetary More...

Shark diversity unaffected when the dinosaurs were wiped out - Phys.org A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, and large marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. But what happened to the sharks? According to a study of sharks' teeth publishing August 10th in the open-acc… More...

Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Matter Generated by Collisions of Light - ScienceAlert According to theory, if you smash two photons together hard enough, you can generate matter: an electron-positron pair, the conversion of light to mass as per Einstein's theory of special relativity. More...

Dispatches from Mars: Perseverance rover sends images - Photos - UPI.com NASA's Perseverance rover landed safely on the Martian surface on February 18, 2021. Here's a look at some of the images it has sent back to Earth. More...

Dragonfly mission to Titan announces big science goals - Phys.org Among our solar system's many moons, Saturn's Titan stands out—it's the only moon with a substantial atmosphere and liquid on the surface. It even has a weather system like Earth's, though it rains methane instead of water. Might it also host some kind of lif… More...

Machine learning discovers new sequences to boost drug delivery - Phys.org Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a rare genetic disease usually diagnosed in young boys, gradually weakens muscles across the body until the heart or lungs fail. Symptoms often show up by age 5; as the disease progresses, patients lose the ability to walk a… More...

The US Senate approves the Biden maxi-plan, with investments of 1,200 billion dollars underway - The Times Hub Time.news – The US Senate has approved the maxi infrastructure investment plan of 1,200 billion dollars strongly desired by President Joe Biden and the result of a bipartisan agreement. A great victory for the Democratic president and a defeat for his predece… More...

Is space infinite? We asked 5 experts - The Conversation AU The universe has a finite age — 13.8 billion years to be exact. So if it had a beginning, why is it so difficult to say for sure whether it will have an end? More...

Scientists detect characteristics of the birth of a major challenge to harvesting fusion energy on Earth - Science Daily Novel camera detects the birth of high-energy runaway electrons, which may lead to determining how to prevent damage caused by the highly energetic particles. More...

We’ll Have to Wait About 3,000 Years for a Reply From Intelligent Civilizations - Universe Today According to a new study by Harvard Professor Loeb and Amir Siraj, it would around 3000 years to hear a reply from an extraterrestrial civilization. More...

How pollutants are damaging our body's first line of defense - Livemint More...

ISRO-SAC instrument finds presence of hydroxyl and water molecules on Moon - The Indian Express The research also strongly suggests that the presence of these could correlate with mineralogy and latitudinal location, according to a paper published in the latest issue of fortnightly journal ‘Current Science’. More...

Graphene assists researchers to develop a prototype for an artificial neuron | Graphene-Info - Graphene-Info More...

Want to live on Mars for a year? Nasa begins application process - Livemint Nasa has begun taking applications for four people that will spend a year living in a 3-D printed module that stimulates the condition of life on Mars.Nasa says this will be a 'physically and mentally demanding' mission and its application requirements are eq… More...

Elon Musk Comes Forward to Assist NASA With Spacesuits as Moon Mission Pushed to April 2025 - Gadgets 360 Elon Musk on Tuesday said his aerospace company SpaceX could help NASA produce spacesuits for its Artemis Moon mission after the US space agency's Inspector General reported that it was facing significant challenges, making the manned lunar landing impossible… More...

Venus fly-by shortly after BepiColombo: Solar Orbiter sends photo - Market Research Telecast The two ESA probes Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo have passed Venus as planned and have already sent the first data to Earth that were collected during these fly-bys. This also includes a photo of the ... Read more More...

Scientists blast off 'The Blob' for the International Space Station for experiment - Alien on its own planet - Economic Times Residents of the International Space Station will soon welcome their most unusual guest. On Tuesday, the 'Blob', an unclassified organism, blasted off into orbit. Alien on its own planet More...

Scientists Mutate Critter To Create Ghastly Spider-Like Creature With Short Legs - India Times Owing to COVID-19, the word "mutation" sends a chill down everyone's spine. But science is unstoppable, and so are its ardent disciples. Now, scientists have genetically engineered arachnids known as "Daddy Long Legs". Why, you ask? To simply give them short … More...

Name European Space Agency's new mission and win a prize! - Times Now ESA invites you to send us your best and liveliest proposed mission names. Submissions can be sent from now until 17 October, and the selected entry will win a nifty prize, promises the ESA. More...

Investigating the dynamics of the early solar system - Tech Explorist Scientists can deduce the probable events that affected the object and reconstruct a time-lapse. More...

Perseid meteor shower begins tonight: Here's how to photograph the stunning celestial event - India Today As the Perseid meteors hit up the upper atmosphere and dazzle the night skies, here are some suggestions on how to capture the celestial event on camera. More...

Three Scientific Geniuses Playing Hide and Seek - District Chronicles It was Einstein's turn to count. So he closed his eyes and started to count to 100. Pascal ran off to hide and found a great spot in a big lush and leafy bush. More...

NASA's Ingenuity Awarded 'Laureate' for History-Making Flights on Mars, by Aviation Week Network - LatestLY NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has been awarded 'Laureate' for its "extraordinary achievements in aerospace" by the Aviation Week Network. The prestigious honour recognises the pioneering rotorcraft for its history-making flights on the Red Planet… More...

NASA sun spacecraft whizzes through 9th solar flyby - Livescience.com NASA's sun-grazing spacecraft is making its ninth daring dive past our neighborhood star in a continuing quest to puzzle out secrets of how the sun works. More...

'Dragon'-like Dinosaurs Existed in Australia, New Discovery Shows - The Swaddle The fossil belonged to a flying reptile species from 110 million years ago and is the largest of its kind discovery yet. More...

Live: Perseid meteor shower 2021 reaches peak - CGTN The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak tonight, with the rate of meteors reaching up to 60 or more per hour. Join CGTN to enjoy the view! More...

International Space station supplies launched with a pizza delivery for 7 - CNBCTV18 Northrop Grumman's latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven. The company's Cygnus cargo ship rocketed away from Virginias eastern shore Tuesday. It should reach the International Space Station on Thursday. The 8,200-pound (3,700-kilogram) shipme… More...

Corallimorphs Dominate and Kill Reefs at Palmyra Atoll - AZoCleantech The coral reefs thriving in Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been transforming from stony corals to systems controlled by corallimorphs—marine invertebrates that share genes with both hard corals and anemones. More...

New Solvent Mixtures Could Simplify Production of Biofuels like Bioethanol - AZoM New solvent mixtures developed by researchers from the Institute of Science and Engineering at Kanazawa University help break down the hard structure of plant cellulose for bioethanol production. More...

WATCH: New Species of Jellyfish in Crimson Hue Filmed For the First Time - News18 A glorious disk-shaped red jellyfish was spotted floating nearly 2,300 feet below the surface. More...

A pathway to stable, high-activity catalysts from gold nanoclusters - Nanowerk Researchers design a stable, high-performance photocatalyst from gold nanoclusters by removing the protective molecules around them. More...

NASAs Ingenuity honoured for history-making flights on Mars - newkerala.com - New Kerala NASA's Ingenuity honoured for history-making flights on Mars More...

University of Western Australia: Gravitational wave detector scaled down - India Education Diary Observations of gravitational waves in space have sparked public interest in space technology and an interactive exhibit modelled on a real-life gravitational-wave detector is helping to explain this new field of science.An exhibit is currently on di More...

Mars Dune Alpha: Inside NASA's starchitect-designed Mars habitat - Quartz Mars Dune Alpha is touted to be "the highest-fidelity simulated habitat ever constructed" for living in the red planet. More...

Bonobos Appear to Say 'Hello' and 'Goodbye' to Each Other - Gizmodo Data from over 1,000 great ape interactions indicate that bonobos and chimps follow certain social customs, much like humans. More...