World Science Day for Peace and Development 2020: The World Science Day for Peace and Development is observed on November 10 across the world.
On the space station, the Advanced Plant Habitat uses an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to simulate sunlight and optimise plant growth.
Rogue planets are a bit uncommon as although many of the known exoplanets discovered so far do not resemble those in our solar system, they have one thing in common — they all orbit a star.
The mission team sent commands to the spacecraft on Wednesday, instructing it to close the Sample Return Capsule (SRC).
October-end is all set to present a dazzling ‘Blue Moon’ to all the stargazers out there. Blue Moon will be visible on October 31. This is the second Full Moon this month and will be a rare occurrence, called the ‘Blue Moon’.
“Bennu continues to surprise us with great science and also throwing a few curveballs,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s associate administrator for science at NASA.
During Chandrayaan-1, the Mini-Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) found water-ice deposits in craters on the far side of the moon which was considered as a significant finding.
Bennu offers scientists a window into the early solar system as it was first taking shape billions of years ago and flinging ingredients that could have helped seed life on Earth.
The space agency selected partners to develop technologies in cryogenic fluid management, lunar surface, and closed-loop descent and landing.
In February 2018, SpaceX launched its reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle — Falcon Heavy for the first time along with a cherry-red Tesla Roadster with a mannequin called “Starman” behind the wheel.
Chemistry Nobel Price 2020: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna win the award for creating a tool for rewriting the code of life.
Nobel Prize Chemistry 2020: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the winner of Nobel Prize Chemistry today on Wednesday.
Andrea Ghez is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics as she found the first signs of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, she is also the 54th woman to win a Nobel Prize overall.
Cygnus will remain at the orbiting laboratory for three months.
The toilet is scheduled to launch, along with other cargo, on Northrop Grumman’s contract resupply mission to ISS from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on September 29.
The agency’s powerful new rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), and the Orion spacecraft are closer than ever to their first integrated launch, NASA said.
The International space agency took to micro-blogging site Twitter and shared beautiful images of the cosmic world with the caption, “Observing our universe in different kinds of light Milky Way”.
At its closest approach, the asteroid will be 1.2 lakh km away. It means the asteroid will be closer to Earth than the Moon, which is 3.84 lakh km away from our home planet.
Epps will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada for a six-month expedition to the orbiting space laboratory, the US space agency said on Tuesday.
