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Life-forming Compounds Found On Mars

Life-forming Compounds Found On Mars

Posted by on Jun 10th, 2018 // No Comments

Scientists have reported that NASA’s Curiosity rover has found methane and other organic compounds that serve as the foundations of life on Mars. Scientists from NASA and other research agencies from around the world published their... 
Three Astronauts Return From ISS As Three More Prepare To Go

Three Astronauts Return From ISS As Three More Prepare To Go

Posted by on Jun 2nd, 2018 // No Comments

Three astronauts are departing the International Space Station after a 168-day mission to make the descent back to Earth. Soyuz MS-07/53S commander Anton Shkaplerov, NASA flight engineer Scott Tingle and Japanese physician-astronaut... 
NASA Sending Helicopter To Mars

NASA Sending Helicopter To Mars

Posted by on May 16th, 2018 // No Comments

NASA has announced that a small, autonomous helicopter will be launched with the agency’s upcoming Mars 2020 rover mission. The craft is meant to demonstrate the viability of travel with a heavier-than-air craft above the Martian... 
Breakthrough Listen Expands Search For Alien Life

Breakthrough Listen Expands Search For Alien Life

Posted by on May 8th, 2018 // No Comments

The Breakthrough Listen project has announced the launch of an expanded survey of stars in the Milky Way. The initiative was launched to collect massive amounts of deep space data and make it public in an open effort to identify signals... 
NASA Ends Lunar Rover Project

NASA Ends Lunar Rover Project

Posted by on Apr 29th, 2018 // No Comments

NASA has canceled its only lunar rover currently in development. According to reports, members of the Resource Prospector mission were to close out the project by the end of May. NASA released a statement saying that some of the instruments... 
University Facing Boycott Over Killer Robots

University Facing Boycott Over Killer Robots

Posted by on Apr 6th, 2018 // No Comments

A boycott of a major South Korean research university has been called for by many of the world’s leading experts on artificial intelligence and robotics. The university has reportedly been working with an arms company on integrating... 
Chinese Satellite Burns Up In Descent To Earth

Chinese Satellite Burns Up In Descent To Earth

Posted by on Apr 1st, 2018 // No Comments

Chinese satellite Tiangong 1 re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere Sunday night. The spacecraft made its descent at around 8:16PM ET on April 1st. Most of the material comprising the 8.5-ton satellite burned up over the central South... 
Help NASA By Taking Cloud Photos

Help NASA By Taking Cloud Photos

Posted by on Mar 18th, 2018 // No Comments

NASA has a great opportunity for you if you like to look at clouds and take photos. Citizen scientists on the ground are needed to take photos of the sky help them corroborate satellite information. NASA’s Marilé Colón Robles,... 
SpaceX Gets Nod For Satellite Broadband Network

SpaceX Gets Nod For Satellite Broadband Network

Posted by on Feb 16th, 2018 // No Comments

SpaceX has won an endorsement to build a broadband network using satellites from the top U.S. communications regulator. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai proposed the approval of the application. According to Pai,... 
Nazca Lines Damaged By Rogue Truck Driver

Nazca Lines Damaged By Rogue Truck Driver

Posted by on Feb 3rd, 2018 // No Comments

A trucker intentionally drove his tractor-trailer off a roadway and through the 2,000-year-old Nazca Lines in Peru, causing considerable damage to the protected historic area. Truck driver Jainer Jesús Flores Vigo was arrested and... 
Spacewalk To Repair International Space Station Successful

Spacewalk To Repair International Space Station Successful

Posted by on Jan 23rd, 2018 // No Comments

Two NASA astronauts have completed a scheduled spacewalk to make necessary repairs to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was the 206th spacewalk supporting the station’s assembly and maintenance. It was the first... 
New Spy Satellite Launched in U.S. by Atlas V Rocket

New Spy Satellite Launched in U.S. by Atlas V Rocket

Posted by on Oct 16th, 2017 // No Comments

The United States launched a second spy satellite in the last three weeks over the weekend. The NROL-52 satellite was blasted into orbit Sunday October 15 riding on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, with lift off at 3:28... 
Giant Rat That Eats Coconuts Discovered in Solomon Islands

Giant Rat That Eats Coconuts Discovered in Solomon Islands

Posted by on Sep 27th, 2017 // No Comments

A new species of rat, which is four times the size of the rodent that is found across cities in North America, has been discovered in the Solomon Islands. This discovery is just the first in 80 years that a new species of rat was found... 
Life Did Exist On Mars Suggests New Discovery

Life Did Exist On Mars Suggests New Discovery

Posted by on Sep 8th, 2017 // No Comments

Scientists said they found new evidence that suggests life might have existed at one time on Mars. The Curiosity rover of NASA detected boron, which is an essential ingredient for life, on the surface of Mars. This discovery is a big... 
Sixty-Six Million Year Old Skull May Reveal Triceratops Secrets

Sixty-Six Million Year Old Skull May Reveal Triceratops Secrets

Posted by on Aug 31st, 2017 // No Comments

News spread quickly in Thornton, Colorado this week about a rare dinosaur fossil that was unearthed at the site of a construction project last week. People in Thornton have called the finding one of the most exciting and biggest things... 
Total solar eclipse all set to woo sky gazers on August 21 – All you need to know!

Total solar eclipse all set to woo sky gazers on August 21 – All you need to know!

Posted by on Aug 20th, 2017 // No Comments

New Delhi: Sometime in the year 2014, American space agency NASA had confirmed the occurrence of a total solar eclipse in 2017. On Monday, August 21, many Americans will be able to witness the phenomenon right from their porches. Here... 
Two new earthworm species found in Kerala

Two new earthworm species found in Kerala

Posted by on Aug 19th, 2017 // No Comments

Thiruvananthapuram: Scientists have discovered two new primitive species of earthworm in the Western Ghats mountain ranges in Kerala. Researchers at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala and Shoolini University in Himachal Pradesh named... 
Aimed to improve GPS accuracy, Japan launches third satellite ‘Michibiki’

Aimed to improve GPS accuracy, Japan launches third satellite ‘Michibiki’

Posted by on Aug 19th, 2017 // No Comments

New Delhi: In an effort to build a homegrown geolocation system and help improve the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres, Japan launched its third satellite – the “Michibiki”. Launched... 
ISS spacewalk comes to an end after seven hours, 34 minutes

ISS spacewalk comes to an end after seven hours, 34 minutes

Posted by on Aug 19th, 2017 // No Comments

The seventh spacewalk of 2017 outside the International Space Station (ISS) successfully ended after seven hour and 34 minute spacewalk on August 17. Led by Expedition 52 cosmonauts Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Sergey... 
Asteroid Florence to fly close to Earth on September 1

Asteroid Florence to fly close to Earth on September 1

Posted by on Aug 18th, 2017 // No Comments

NASA has said the Asteroid Florence – named in honour of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing – will be flying at a distance of about seven million kilometres from Earth. Asteroid Florence is about 4.4... 
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