Space

Will an asteroid collision wipe out life from Earth?

According to Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, it's a case of when an asteroid collision will happen, rather than if it will happen.

Jun 21, 2017

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NASA: Ice giants Uranus and Neptune will be explored in 2030s

This study aims to carry out an ice giant mission and explore the ice giant planets, as well as the spacecraft and other instruments, flight-paths and technologies that could be used.

Jun 21, 2017

ISRO to launch earth-observation Cartosat-2E and 30 nano satellites on June 23

The PSLV rocket will be putting the Cartosat-2 series which weighs about 712 kg and the 30 nano satellites weighing around 243 kg at a lift-off into a 505 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO).

Jun 21, 2017

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Scientists discover a pulsar wind nebula

The research points towards the nebula being a bow shock pulsar wind nebula (PWN).

Jun 20, 2017

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NASA's Kepler discovers 10 Earth-like planets in over 200 alien worlds

The announcement was made on June 19 at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley. This is the most comprehensive and detailed catalogue release of candidate exoplanets.

Jun 20, 2017

Human colonization: Elon Musk has plans to make a self-sustaining city on Mars

According to Musk, a major challenge faced by the engineers and scientists is the need to reduce the cost per tonne of transporting materials to Mars by five million percent.

Jun 19, 2017

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NASA's Juno captures stunning image of Jupiter's multicoloured clouds

The spacecraft captured this amazing picture of the planet with the help of JunoCam (JCM) on May 19 following its seventh close pass of the gas giant.

Jun 17, 2017

Evidence points toward Jupiter being the oldest planet in the solar system

The birth of Sun took place around 4.6 billion years ago as per the evolution timeline of the solar system.

Jun 17, 2017

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Chinese scientists to grow potatoes on Moon next year using this technique!

The huge variations between the environments of Earth and Moon are one of the major challenges that the scientists have to face.

Jun 16, 2017

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Human Colonization on Mars: Sex in space remains a major concern for scientists [VIDEO]

What will happen if humans have sex in space remains a mystery. Researchers are curious to find out how radiations will impact reproduction on the Red Planet.

Jun 16, 2017

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Astrophysicists create world's largest virtual universe to solve the mystery of dark matter

The team of scientists believe that around 95 percent of the universe is dark and that space comprises of 72 percent dark energy and 23 percent dark matter.

Jun 15, 2017

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China launches its first X-Ray space telescope to study black holes and pulsars

China has scheduled a launch of the core module of its manned space station in 2019, which will get into operation by 2022.

Jun 15, 2017

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NASA's Aqua satellite spots brightest turquoise swirls in Black Sea

According to NASA, this year's phytoplankton bloom is one of the brightest since 2012.

Jun 14, 2017

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NASA: SOFIA detects cool dust around energetic active black holes

Some active supermassive black holes also eat away significant amounts of matter which gets sucked into them and converted into huge energy emissions.

Jun 14, 2017