On Tuesday, 24 Jan 2016, Japan launched its first military communications satellite aboard an H-IIA rocket at 0744 GMT. The lift-off took place from Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture. According to a spokesman for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the satellite successfully entered the orbit. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries builds the launcher for […]
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China to Launch Its First Lunar Sample Return Mission Chang’e-5 Later This Year
China is planning to launch Chang’e-5, its lunar sample return mission, in November this year, reported state-run People’s Daily newspaper, citing the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) – the main contractor for China’s space program. According to CASC, this will be China’s first automated moon surface sampling mission and first moon take-off mission. […]
New Video from NASA Lets You Feel and Enjoy Landing on Pluto’s Surface
NASA has released a new video letting viewers experience landing on the surface of Pluto. The colorful video has been created using 100 images obtained from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its close flyby of Pluto in July 2015. The team at NASA used these shots from onboard cameras to create the clip. The video […]
Astronomers Focus on Exoplanet Wolf 1061c to Search for Signs of Alien Life
Astronomers have now started focusing on exoplanet Wolf 1061c to look for signs of life in nearby star systems. Wolf 1061 is a red dwarf star located just 126 trillion kilometers (78.3 trillion miles), or 14 light years, from Earth. This nearby star to our Sun has three planets orbiting it. Scientists call them exoplanets […]
Xion Nan Robot Writes a Short Article in Seconds
Surprising the whole world, Xion Nan, a robot journalist has successfully achieved its purpose by writing a 300 characters article in seconds for a Chinese daily newspaper. According to Wan Xiaojun, a professor at Peking University, who heads the research team, the journalist robot Xion Nan has been designed to write both short and long […]
ISRO Defers Launch of Its Heaviest Rocket GSLV Mk-III to March-April
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said that it is postponing the launch of GSLV Mk-III to March-April this year. GSLV Mk-III is ISRO’s heaviest rocket and its launch was tentatively scheduled for January 20. The rocket was to put 3.2 tonne GSAT-19 satellite in orbit. According to Deccan Chronicle, the launch has been […]
A Leopard Shark Reproduces Live Hatchlings Asexually After Being Separated from Her Mate
A leopard shark in Australia has perplexed researchers by reproducing live hatchings asexually after being separated from her mate in 2012. According to researchers, this is the first reported case of a shark switching from sexual to asexual or parthenogenetic reproduction. Leopard sharks are also known as zebra sharks (stegostoma fasciatum) and get their name […]
NASA Reveals Plan to Launch a Mission to 16 Psyche, a Giant Metal Asteroid worth $10,000 Quadrillion
In association with the Arizona State University, NASA is planning to launch a future mission to a giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche that is believed to be worth $10,000 quadrillion. According to NASA, this giant asteroid is made of nickel and iron and might be holding the secret to how our solar system was formed. […]
UK Antarctic Research Station to Close Due to Huge Ice Cracks
The British Antarctic research station is closed due to massive ice crack in Antarctica. According to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), big ice cracks in Antarctica presents “a complex glaciological picture” which causes concern about the shelf on which the Halley VI Research Station is located. A new crack has been observed on the floating […]
Over Half of All Primates are Facing Extinction Crisis due to Habitat Loss and Hunting
A new study carried out by a team of 30 researchers from different parts of the world suggests that more than half of the world’s primates are now facing an “extinction crisis.” This study, which focused on more than 500 primate species, analyzed their conservation status and found that about 60% of them are now […]
A New Moth Named N. Donaldtrumpi in Honor of Donald Trump
The next president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has already started getting honors before his swearing in ceremony. A biologist has named a newly discovered species of moth in honor of Donald Trump. The moth, named Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, features a crown of yellowish scales, and is found in California and Baja, Mexico. […]
2016 was the Hottest Year on Record – Third in a Row
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has announced 2016 to be the hottest year on record. This was the third year in a row to set the global heat record. On Wednesday, NASA and NOAA held a joint press conference to reveal the new record. According to scientists, the Earth is getting warmer and warmer each […]
Kennedy Space Center Holds Remembrance Ceremony for NASA Astronaut Gene Cernan
On Wednesday, Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Visitor Complex held a remembrance ceremony for Gene Cernan, the last man to walk in the moon. Cernan, 82, died on Sunday in Houston after fighting with cancer. During the ceremony, Robert Cabana, KSC director and other officials honored the life and career of astronaut at U.S. Astronaut Hall […]
Methane-producing Microbes Could Survive the Low Pressure and Extremely Thin Air of Mars, Study Suggests
A new study carried out by researchers from the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences (ACSPS) at the University of Arkansas suggests that some terrestrial organisms such as methanogens (the methane-producing microbes) could survive the extremely thin air of Mars. The detailed findings of the study, titled “Low Pressure Tolerance by Methanogens in an […]
India Poised to Play a Crucial Role in LIGO Research by Setting up the World’s Third Advanced Observatory
India is gearing up to play a crucial role in gravitational waves detection by setting up the world‘s third advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) laboratory in Aundh in Hingoli district of Maharashtra. Fred Raab, an eminent physicist and associate director for operations, LIGO Laboratory, who was at the Presidency University in Kolkata on Tuesday […]
Dolphin with a Huge Shark Bite Found Washed up on Polly Joke Beach near Newquay, Cornwall
A dolphin with a big ‘shark bite’ taken out of its stomach was found washed up on Cornish beach. A meter-long ‘bite’ was taken out if the mammal’s side, making its ribs visible. The National Oceanic Centre and The Wildlife Trust have been informed of the dolphin carcass. Authorities have ordered a probe to investigate […]
NASA Releases New Images Captured by Juno Showing Crescent Shaped Jupiter and Its Great Red Spot
NASA has released an astonishing new picture of Jupiter, showing a crescent Jupiter, along with its iconic Great Red Spot and planet’s megastorm. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and appears to astronomers as a deep red orb surrounded by layers of orange, pale yellow, and white. Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is […]
Japanese Astronomers Discover Bow-like Feature in the Atmosphere of Venus
Japanese scientists have discovered a huge wave like feature in the Venus’ cloud region, and according to these scientists, this feature appears to be fixed to the slowly rotating planet, while clouds around it whiz by at about 100 meters per second. Venus, the “planet of love”, is almost the same size as Earth and […]
ESO Joins Hands with Breakthrough Initiatives to Upgrade Telescope in Chile to Look for Planets around Alpha Centauri
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has partnered with Breakthrough Initiative to upgrade its Very Large Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile to better search for planets around the stars of Alpha Centuri, the closest star system to Earth. The triple-star Alpha Centauri system is located about nearly 4 light-years away from Earth, and scientists think it […]
Vera Rubin, a Pioneering Astronomer Who Worked on Dark Matter, Dies
Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who worked on dark matter is no more in this world. Her son, Allan Rubin, a professor of geosciences at Princeton University, revealed that Rubin, 88, died on Dec. 25, 2016. Vera Rubin had been living in the Princeton area. She was born on July 23, 1928 in Philadelphia. Rubin […]
A Supervolcano near Naples is Stirring Again and Could Hit Half a Million People
An Italian supervolcano, located across the Bay of Naples from Vesuvius, has started stirring again, according to a team of scientists, and could hit about 500,000 people if an eruption occurs. Campi Flegrei, meaning burning fields in Italian, is a large volcanic area, with a 13-km-wide caldera which lies mostly underwater. The caldera features 24 […]
A Rainbow-headed Snake among 163 New Species Discovered in Greater Mekong
One hundred sixty three new species, including a dragon-like lizard, a tiny frog and a rainbow-headed snake, were discovered in the Greater Mekong region in 2015. Conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) gave details of these new species, which are announced each year after going through a lengthy identification process. WWF revealed that new species […]
NASA’s Solar-powered Juno Spacecraft Captures Pics of Jupiter’s ‘Pearl’
Using its onboard camera JunoCam imager, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured the pictures of the seventh of Jupiter‘s eight massive counter-clockwise rotating storms. The images were taken on December 11 when the spacecraft was performing its third close flyby of the planet, while being about 24,600 km from the planet. Jupiter‘s eight storms are simply […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Getting Ready to Start Search for Earth’s “Trojan” Asteroids from Feb 9
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is all set to start its search for hard-to-find Earth “Trojan” asteroids from Feb 9. Trojan asteroids orbit the sun and are constant companions of a specific planet. These asteroids remain near a stable point 60 degrees in front of or behind the companion planet, and never collide with it as they […]
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