It is said that at a point in the distant future, the sun will become big enough to eat up the planets in the solar system thereby making the earth uninhabitable
The CEO warned that there might be an issue since this is the first proper Starlink mission following an early 2018 launch
The Russian Journal of Herpetology published the discovery of the unique pit viper species in its March-April volume.
On National Technology Day, various events are organized in different technical institutes and engineering colleges.
Jeff Bezos said, “It’s time to go back to the Moon, this time to stay.”
Born on this day in 1888, Lucy Wills attended the Cheltenham College for Young Ladies, one of the first British boarding schools to train female students in science and mathematics.
Washington: In an attempt to pull off a feat so far seen only in science fiction films, NASA is planning to launch a spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will hit a small moonlet in the binary asteroid system Didymos in September 2022. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test[Read More…]
They also said that there is no need to worry about it as it will be about 19,000 miles (31,000 km) away from our planet
Washington: After several attempts earlier, SpaceX on Saturday successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft for its 17th resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). “@SpaceX’s #Dragon spacecraft launched at 2:48am ET on a mission to deliver more than 5,500 pounds of research, crew supplies and hardware to the @Space_Station,” NASA[Read More…]
The sun will exactly reach its zenith at 12.18pm
Mandi: Climate change can affect the food, water and energy security of a region, Ministry of Earth Sciences Secretary M. Rajeevan said here on Friday. “Climate is changing and global warming is happening due to the release of greenhouse gases. In many parts of the world, including India, the effects[Read More…]
The 82-year-old chairman of pharmaceutical major Cipla, Dr Yusuf Hamied was elected as Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society.
Washington: A US rocket has been launched from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, carrying cargo with the space agency’s re-supply mission for the International Space Station (ISS). The Antares rocket built by Northrop Grumman lifted off on Wednesday evening, carrying the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS,[Read More…]
Washington: Three Indian student teams won awards in NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge at the US Space and Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama. The team from KIET Group of Institutions in Ghaziabad won the “AIAA Neil Armstrong Best Design Award” in the college/university division, NASA said in a statement[Read More…]
Washington: NASA’s landmark “Twins Study”, which gave us the first integrated molecular view into genetic changes, has demonstrated that a human body adapts and remains robust and resilient even after spending nearly a year aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The findings, published in the Science journal, will help NASA[Read More…]
SpaceX launched the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket on its inaugural commercial mission on Thursday evening at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time SpaceX managed to land all three rocket boosters after launch. For the first time ever, all three Falcon Heavy rocket boosters returned to Earth[Read More…]
The National Science Foundation on Wednesday revealed the first-ever picture captured of a black hole. The black hole in the image is at present at the middle of a massive galaxy in the Virgo cluster, Messier 87. The galaxy M87 is 500 million trillion km away from Earth. The black hole[Read More…]
An international scientific team is expected to unveil a landmark achievement in astrophysics – the first photo of a black hole – on Wednesday. Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration will present a “groundbreaking result” from the project on April 10, according to a media advisory. Anticipation is building[Read More…]
The knowledge of the composition of the microbial and fungal communities on the ISS can be used to develop safety measures for NASA for long-term space travel or living in space
Washington: NASA on Friday announced that it’s Parker Solar Probe, the fastest spacecraft in history, has completed its second close approach to the Sun and is now entering the outbound phase of the second solar orbit. At 6:40 p.m. American Eastern Time on Thursday, the spacecraft passed within 15 million[Read More…]
On 27th March, India’s Defense Research and Development Organization fired a missile during an anti-satellite missile test that destroyed a satellite in space. India’s destruction of one of its satellites has been labelled a “terrible thing” by the head of NASA. NASA’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine said the missile test created 400[Read More…]
All is set for the lift-off of a new variant of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from here on Monday, carrying electronic intelligence satellite, Emisat for the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and 28 other third-party satellites. About 17 minutes after the take-off at 9.27 a.m., the rocket would[Read More…]
One of the most important primary design factors (for each and every hardware) while building models to launch in space is weight and volume. Space shuttles also consider the weight and volume before they are launched. The food habit of the astronauts in these space shuttles has been a source[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the nation on Wednesday March announced that India tested anti-satellite weapon and successfully destroyed a satellite in 3 minutes, thus becoming a Space Superpower. “India shot down a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite, which was a pre-determined target.” “India has entered its name as an[Read More…]
In a letter to his sister, Scientist Albert Einstien had almost predicted Nazi’s rise