Science & Health

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launch schedule: Block 5 or Falcon Heavy will revolutionise future flights

SpaceX is going to change future flights with its Block 5 or Falcon Heavy and this will happen after Falcon 9 launches EchoStar 23.

Jan 23, 2017

NASA's New Horizons probe ready to explore beyond Pluto!

This yet to be explored celestial body was discovered in the June of 2014 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. 2014 MU69 is located in the Kuiper Belt.

Jan 23, 2017

SuperWASP-South Observatory discovers 3 new gas giant exoplanets!

Proxima Centauri b is found to be the exoplanet closest to Earth, which is located at a distance of 4.2 light years.

Jan 21, 2017

NASA's New Horizons: Amazing new image of Pluto's biggest moon Charon revealed!

The night side of the Texas-sized moon Charon can be seen dimly lit by reflected Plutoshine, NASA revealed.

Jan 21, 2017

Sperm fertility test made simpler with smartphones

YO sperm kit makes it easy to test your fertility using smartphones without going to clinics.

Jan 21, 2017

South Pole Telescope (SPT) in Antarctica

South Pole: Astronomers face extreme weather to unveil cosmic mysteries

South Pole has extreme weather conditions in which the temperature falls to -100 Fahrenheit (-73 degrees Celsius) at night.

Jan 21, 2017

NASA's Cassini spacecraft gets a closer view of Saturn's Wave-Making Daphnis moon

The photo was snapped by Cassini from a distance of 28,000 km (17,000 miles) using its narrow-angle camera.

Jan 20, 2017

Mystery of galaxy murder finally solved by researchers!

This research aims at focusing on the process that causes the removal of gas from star-forming galaxies — a phenomenon also known as ram-pressure stripping

Jan 20, 2017

Atmosphere on Mars could host microbes, scientists have discovered

Methanogens, which scientists speculate could survive in a Martian environment, are considered among the most ancient and simplest of organisms present on Earth.

Jan 20, 2017

Newspaper reporters beware of Xiao Nan, the first Chinese robot journalist, who wrote an article in just a second!

The robot journalist Nan, is capable of writing both short as well as long articles, Wan Xiaojun, a professor at Peking University, revealed

Jan 19, 2017

In Australia, horses found to be deadlier than other poisonous creatures

The statistics showed that over a span of 13 years, ranging from 2000 to 2013, 74 deaths were caused by horses, whereas other creatures such as snakes and stinging insects caused 27 deaths

Jan 19, 2017

Air pollution caused 80,665 premature deaths in Delhi and Mumbai in 2015

Air pollution cost both cities around 0.71 percent of India's gross domestic product, which is approximately Rs 70,000 crores, in 2015.

Jan 19, 2017

Milky Way Galaxy's mass is recalculated using a new technique, and boy is it big!

The newly estimated mass of the Milky Way comprises planets, stars, clouds of gas, debris, dark matter and every other element that the galaxy is made up of.

Jan 19, 2017

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Humans are about to trigger a mass primate extinction, say scientists

We can expect to see the majority of primate species driven towards extinction in the next 25-50 years, a group of 31 leading primatologists has said.

Jan 19, 2017