China wants to send 60 Jilin-1 video satellites by 2020, according to Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd., the developer of Jilin-1 satellites. The company revealed the information at an ongoing legislative session of northeast China’s Jilin Province, according to the Xinhua News. So far, China has sent 10 Jilin-1 satellites into space. In October […]
Climate change has allowed a team of glacial archaeologists to find a large number of rare artifacts that would have otherwise remained concealed in the glacial ice for centuries. These artifacts were recovered from the melting ice in the mountains of Jotunheimen and Oppland in Norway. Some of these artifacts are nearly 6,000 years old, […]
A strange intersteller stone named Hypatia that was found in 1996 at the Libyan Desert Glass field could have been formed much before the formation of our solar system, suggests a new study carried out by researchers from the University of Johannesburg. Hypatia was discovered in 1996, and was given the name “Hypatia” after Hypatia […]
In May 2017, Fisher Space Pen Company unveiled its new product—a Raw Brass Cap-O-Matic space pen—the Company’s fourth product launch of 2017. Although M4 Cap-O-Matic Pen was already available in the market, it was the first time that the space pen was made available in the RAW state. The M4 Raw Brass Cap-O-Matic Pen was […]
In November 2015, NASA’s Eagleworks Laboratories revealed that it had carried out a series of tests on Roger Shawyer’s controversial electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive thruster, suggesting that the controversial EMdrive thruster technology can actually work. Eagleworks Laboratories is the experimental lab at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and was set up to investigate far-out propulsion claims. […]
NASA has posted some stunning images of the Mars winters captured by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. With the onset of winter on Mars, a decrease in temperature causes the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to turn into the dry ice, which eventually covers the Martian surface and forms various patterns. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter used the […]
The Russian scientists have restored communication with the Angolan satellite AngoSat-1. All parameters of the on-board systems of the device are now normal, the official press release of RSC Energia revealed. The spacecraft was launched on December 26 by the Zenit-2SB space rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome. AngoSat-1 separated from the second stage of the […]
A mini ice age could hit the UK in next 20 years, according to a new study carried out by the researchers from universities in the UK and Russia. The study predicts that a mini ice age in next 20 years would freeze main rivers in the UK, including the Thames River. The initial […]
The asteroid 2015 TB145, which appears like a human skull, will approach the Earth in 2018. This asteroid was discovered on October 10, 2015 by the Hawaii Pan-STARRS 1 Telescope. The last time this asteroid approached the Earth was in 2015, and at that time, it was called the “Halloween Asteroid”. 2015 TB145 resembles like […]
French scientists have refuted a hypothesis related to the origin of the Moon. Astronomers of the Paris Institute of Geophysics found that the existing hypothesis of the origin of the Moon—according to which the celestial body was formed after the collision of the young Earth with the hypothetical planet Theia, the size of Mars—can’t […]
Researchers from the University of Tokyo in Japan have created a new type of polymer glass that can heal itself from breaks and cracks at room temperature. The new material was discovered by chance when Yu Yanagisawa, a graduate student at the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology in the University of Tokyo, was carrying out […]
NASA has awarded the Aircraft Maintenance, Logistics, Integration, Configuration Management and Engineering (ALICE) contract to Yulista Tactical Services based in Huntsville, Alabama. The base period for the contract will be 18 months, starting March 1, 2018. After completion of 18-month base period, the contract offers a one-year option and a 15-month option. The total maximum […]
NASA will announce the finalist concepts for its future solar system mission during a media teleconference on Wednesday, December 20, 2017. According to the space agency, this robotic mission is targeted to be launched in mid-2020s and aims to explore the solar system. This mission would be the fourth in NASA’s New Frontiers portfolio. So […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos are currently discussing future cooperation between two agencies on ExoMars and the Moon exploration projects. According to the Roscosmos press office, a meeting was recently held between ESA CEO Johann-Dietrich Woerner and Roscosmos CEO Igor Komarov at the ESA’s Research and Technology Center in Noordwijk (the Netherlands) where […]
China’s FAST radio telescope has found three new pulsars, the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) announced on Tuesday. With a receiving area equivalent to about 30 football fields, FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope)— nicknamed Tianyan— is the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. The telescope is located in southwest China’s Guizhou […]
A geologist has discovered a 2,000-million-year-old “prokaryotic” microfossils in India. The microfossils were found in a carbonaneous shale from the Gawlior basin of the Bundelkhand region in Central India. Naresh Ghose, formerly geology professor at Patna University, lives in the city of Bengaluru. His latest finding was reported at the recent annual convention of the […]
We all know that intelligence level of one individual is different from the other individual. Some people are smarter and more intelligent than others. But why? Probably because the brains of intelligent people are wired in a different way compared to average people, as per claims made a new study carried out by scientists from […]
Scientists have finally revealed how the little, black flies of Mono Lake are able to keep themselves dry underwater and survive in the highly alkaline water of the lake. The vast Mono Lake lies east of Yosemite National Park in California and is one of the most ancient lakes in North America. This 150-foot-deep lake […]
India is currently working on reusable launch vehicles for Mars exploration and to search for alien life in the vast Universe, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman AS Kiran Kumar has revealed. Mr. Kumar was speaking at an inaugural talk at Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) on Wednesday. PRL has organized a three-day brainstorming session […]
A new study carried out by NASA scientists has revealed some surprising information about melting of ice sheets in Antarctica. According to this study, a geothermal heat source (called mantle plume) is lying deep under Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land, and while this mantle plume does not pose any additional threats, it could explain the collapse […]
Researchers have discovered a new great ape species in Sumatra, Indonesia. This is the first great ape species to be described by scientists in nearly 90 years. Previously, scientists have recognized six great ape species: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos. The latest study is based on analysis of the […]
Scientists have been using the CRISPR gene-editing tool to alter DNA, but now a team of scientists from the Broad Institute claims to have expanded this tool to also edit RNA. RNA is different to DNA in a variety of ways. While DNA is responsible for storing and transferring genetic information, RNA within the cells […]
In 2014, the same team of astronomers had found two rings around Chariklo, a smaller, space rock orbiting between Neptune and Jupiter. Haumea—an egg-shaped dwarf planet located at the edge of our Solar System—features a ring of particles, according to a new study led by a group of astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of […]
This spacecraft was designed to last for just six months in the Martian orbit, but surpassing all expectations, it has now completed three years in space. We are talking about ISRO’s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) that on September 24 completed three years in Mars orbit. India’s Mars mission was launched on November 5, 2013 from […]
Researchers used nerve stimulation technique on a 35-year-old man who has been in a vegetative state for the past 15 years, and noticed improvement in the level of consciousness in that person. The patient selected for this study was incapacitated by a car accident 15 years ago, and showed no signs of improvement in the […]
Paving the way for humanlike robots, the researchers at Columbia University have created synthetic soft muscles that are able to lift 1,000 times their own weight. Dubbed soft actuator, these artificial muscles have been created using 3D printing technique. They can push, pull, twist, bend and lift weight and cost just US$ 0.03/gram to make. […]
A joint team of German and Swedish researchers has identified a new species of a giant sea monster that existed on Earth about 190 million years ago. The new findings, according to experts, will improve human understanding about how ‘super predators’ might have evolved in the Jurassic period. In the 1980s, archeologists had recovered fossilized […]
The Israel Space Agency will soon invite applications from Israeli students for an internship program sponsored by NASA. NASA has designed this program, called NASA I2, for international students from more than 10 countries including Australia, Mexico, Lithuania, Jordan, South Korea, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Space agencies of all these countries will select […]
Canada’s latest, largest and most powerful radio telescope started mapping the universe from September 7, 2017. This radio telescope, dubbed Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) has been built at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in the south Okanagan and is expected to help astronomers and researchers better understand gravitational waves, radio bursts from pulsars […]
Researchers have found a bizarre bumpy-looking blob in the biofiltration pond in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The discovery was made last month during BioBlitz event when several citizens and scientists visited Vancouver’s Stanley Park to see the type of wildlife dwelling in the park. Some researchers spent whole day in the park and […]