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Giant asteroid to zip past earth next week, will it hit the blue planet?

Several top space experts strongly believe that dreaded events like asteroid hits are not confined to the past

Jan 15, 2022

NASA's retired Spitzer telescope studies shed new light on giant exoplanets

Two new studies using NASA's retired spitzer space telescope shed light on giant exoplanets and a brown dwarf. Johanna Vos, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, will discuss a Spitzer survey published in the Astrophysical Journal that found higher variability in the weather on young brown dwarfs compared to old ones.

Jan 15, 2022

2021 recorded as 6th hottest year, as last 8 years remain the warmest: NASA

According to an independent analysis done by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA earth's global average surface temperature in 2021 tied 2018 as the sixth warmest year on record. Climate change is the existential threat of our time said scientists.

Jan 14, 2022

NASA hiring priests to prepare humans for alien first contact

NASA believes that the discovery of aliens in the future will have crucial implications on humanity

Dec 26, 2021

NASA launches James Webb telescope, 100 times more powerful than Hubble [Watch Live]

After facing constant delays, NASA's much-awaited James Webb Space Telescope was finally launched today.

Dec 25, 2021

NASA's Busiest Year 2021: From Mars Landing to Launch of Next-Gen Web Space Telescope

In 2021, NASA also took action to roll out aviation technology to more airports to help save time for passengers, pushing the boundaries of making aeronautics greener and more efficient.

Dec 24, 2021

NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission delayed again; Likely in March 2022

After facing an issue with the engine, NASA's uncrewed Artemis 1 moon mission has been delayed to March next year, the US space agency said.

Dec 22, 2021

NASA's Juno Spacecraft 'Hears' Jupiter's Moon

NASA's Juno Spacecraft "Hears" From Jupiter's Moon Ganymede; Records Them

An audio track collected during Jupiter mission's Ganymede flyby offers a dramatic ride-along. It is one of the highlights mission scientists shared in a briefing at American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

Dec 21, 2021

Life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover discovers organic chemicals on red planet

Scientists at NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission have discovered that rocks in the Jezero Crater on the Red Planet have interacted with water multiple times over the eons and that some contain organic molecules.

Dec 18, 2021

In a first, NASA's Parker Solar Probe 'touches' the Sun's corona in daring mission [Details]

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASAs Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Suns upper atmosphere, called the corona, and sampled particles and magnetic fields there, according to statement issued by the US space agency.

Dec 18, 2021

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover Makes Surprising Discoveries For Sample Return Program

The findings by rover scientists highlight the diversity of samples geologists and future scientists associated with the agency's Mars Sample Return program will have to study.

Dec 16, 2021

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches a Total of 30 Minutes Aloft

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Reaches Milestone of Being Aloft for 30 Minutes

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter to the Red Planet has reached an airborne milestone that the team never considered achievable.

Dec 16, 2021

NASA's Parker Mission Enters Sun's Atmosphere; First Milestone Ever in Solar Probe

For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere – the corona – and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.

Dec 15, 2021

Hole above North Pole: NASA to investigate strange anomaly in earth's atmosphere [details]

As a part of the CREX-2 mission, NASA is planning to fire a rocket into the sky from Norway

Dec 3, 2021

Mystery behind high abundance of Lithium in some evolved stars traced

Bengaluru scientists find reason behind mystery of high abundance of Lithium in some stars

The reason behind the high abundance of Lithium in some stars has remained a puzzle since the models of how stars evolve predict the Lithium must have been destroyed in the hot plasma of the star.

Dec 1, 2021

New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total count; none like Earth [read now]

Scientists have added a whopping 301 newly confirmed exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. None of the newly confirmed planets are believed to be Earth-like or in the habitable zone of their parent stars.

Nov 30, 2021

One Year From Launch: US-European SWOT Satellite Getting Ready to Track Water Resources on Earth

The Surface Water and Ocean Topography spacecraft enters the home stretch as an international team prepares the next-generation satellite for launch in 2022.The SWOT mission is just a year out from launch, and the final set of tests on the spacecraft have started.