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Last week in Science: Highlights from what happened in Science and Space

Here are a few select stories from the last one week that you need to read about what happened in the world of science and research.

12 hours ago

Potentially habitable moons of giant planets could be better for humans than Earth

Moons of large gas giants could be the perfect place to look for life and so far there are 121 candidates where life could flourish.

2 days ago

NASA might have found evidence of alien life on dwarf planet Ceres but not revealing much, says study

A new study has found that the organic compound in Ceres may be much more than NASA assumed earlier

2 days ago

Going to Mars possible but return is full of hurdles, reveals top NASA scientist

NASA chief scientist Jim Green revealed that humans will definitely go to Mars, but will face some huge challenges during the mission which is not one-way ticket but two-way journe.y

4 days ago

Russia to build powerful space laser cannon to burn out space junk in low-Earth orbit

The design of this "cannon" is based on a telescope design that is about three metres long and its construction has already started. This telescope can be used to monitor debris floating in space and if needed transform into a giant laser and evaporate it.

4 days ago

NASA's latest admission hints at presence of alien life already on Mars, insists UFO researcher

UFO researcher Tyler Glockner has revealed that aliens might be living under the surface of the red planet

5 days ago

Massive sandstorm on Mars hits Opportunity Rover, stalls mission as dust blots out Sun

This is one of the largest storms that the rover has had to encounter and there are chances that Opportunity rover could become too cold to continue with its experiments.

6 days ago

Largest Antarctic iceberg ever is about to finally melt away in the equatorial Atlantic

Iceberg B-15 is the largest iceberg on record and broke out of the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000. Covering a total area of 5926.4 square km, about the size of the city of Chicago, it was large enough to be seen from space.

9 days ago

Life on Mars? NASA finds 3 billion-year-old 'ancient organic material' on the red planet

NASA has reportedly found organic compounds just below the surface of a crater which was the bed of an ancient lake. Also, it "breathes" methane regularly. Does that mean there is or was life on Mars at some point in the past?

9 days ago

NASA releases 20 years of Earth data for public viewing – view the world change over time

The maps all come in an easy to use, interactive format that lets users scroll through time in any part of the world.

10 days ago

New Horizons spacecraft wakes up for next flyby sojourn beyond Pluto

New Horizons will pass by Ultima Thule on New Year's day 2019. Starting now to the flyby, mission control will have a full schedule preparing the craft, testing its on board instruments, and making course corrections along the way.

11 days ago

How about a trip to distant worlds in space? Just settle down on your couch and go light-years away!

Kepler-186f is in the list, similar in size as the Earth and located around 500 light years away. Take a trip across and enjoy virtual space ride across the planets

12 days ago

NASA's SMAP mission to help USDA forecast crops worldwide now

NASA's SMAP mission has created a global map of water level and moisture levels in soil that will update once every three days in an effort to help farmers sustain their crops and predict outcomes.

13 days ago

Scientists Reveal The Secrets Behind Plutos Dunes

An international team of scientists have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto, meaning that the planet and amp;rsquo;s surface is more dynamic than previously thought.

16 days ago

Remembering 12 astronauts who stepped on Moon

Twelve people have walked on the Moon till now, here is a quick list to remember them by.

21 days ago

Nibiru caught on camera? Sudden interruption of ISS live feed adds up the mystery

Adding up the mystery quotient, the ISS live feed was cut off within moments after the object appeared on the screen.

21 days ago

Mars rover Curiosity successfully resumes drilling after remote hackathon by NASA engineers

The dead drilling motor on Mars rover Curiosity was successfully replaced with alternate robotic arms remotely by NASA scientists at JPL and the rover is back in sample collection at Gale Crater

22 days ago

Astronaut Sally Ride, The First American Woman In Space, Will Get Her Own Stamp

Physicist and NASA astronaut Sally Ride will receive her own stamp, according to the U.S. Postal Service. Ride, who died in 2012, was the first American woman to go into space.Picture and amp; Footage:Getty ImagesNASASmithsonian Air And Space MuseumUniversity Of California Television (UCTV)United States Postal Service (USPS) and amp;nbsp;Music:AudioblocksSpace And Time and amp;nbsp;

23 days ago

Anita Sengupta, brain behind NASA's Curiosity landing on Mars, repeats another feat now

Cooling atoms to temperatures far below what is possible on Earth, which could be 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.

25 days ago

NASA study shows freshwater decline in India

The first-of-its-kind study used 14 years of observations from the US/German-led Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) spacecraft mission to track global trends in freshwater in 34 regions around the world.

May 18, 2018