New NASA mission to study, forecast space weather selected
February 27, 2019 21:38 ISTResearchers once thought that only the Sun's constant outflow of ultraviolet light and particles, the solar wind, could affect the region.
Researchers once thought that only the Sun's constant outflow of ultraviolet light and particles, the solar wind, could affect the region.
The telescope will scan a small piece of the universe - about two square degrees - at a resolution higher than any similar mission in the past.
Satellite images show large cracks across Antartica’s Brunt Ice Shelf that could lead to a 660-square-mile iceberg calved, or broken off, from the shelf, according to a NASA news release.
On Friday, the company's rocket powered commercial SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity reached space for the second time, higher and faster than ever before, as its world record-holding hybrid rocket motor propelled the spaceship at Mach 3.04 to an apogee of 295,007 ft.
After much delays, NASA has given the green light to Elon Musk-owned SpaceX's Crew Dragon to launch its first unmanned test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on March 2, the US space agency said.
An Israeli spacecraft blasted off to the moon in an attempt to make the country's first lunar landing, following a launch on Thursday night by SpaceX.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope had discovered the diminutive moon in 2013. Astronomers call it "the moon that shouldn't be there."
Today's supermoon, also dubbed as Super Snow Moon, was visible in India during the day, but you can watch its web telecast as the moon dazzles the world across the globe.
In a first, researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H) have isolated a strain of a fungi, found in the Antarctic region, which could lead to development of new cheaper treatment for common childhood cancer. The new treatment will also have fewer side effects.
NASA has formalised plans to send a crewed spacecraft to Mars, a journey that could involve 250 million miles of travel, said researchers from the Northwestern University in the US.
Bridenstine on Thursday laid out the space agency's plan to support the development of commercial hardware capable of landing astronauts on the moon, the GeekWire reported.
As part of the "Twins Study", NASA astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year in space while Mark, his identical twin, stayed on Earth as a control subject to look at the effects of space travel on the human body.
To peer deep into the Earth, scientists from the Princeton University in the US and the Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics in China, used the most powerful waves on the planet, which are generated by massive earthquakes.
Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 300 million galaxies, as well as more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way, NASA said.
The Opportunity rover stopped communicating with Earth when a severe Mars-wide dust storm blanketed its location in June last year.
The rules include helping your family and group, returning favours, being brave, deferring to superiors, dividing resources fairly, and respecting others' property.
The rover last communicated with Earth on June 10, 2018, as a planet-wide dust storm blanketed the solar-powered rover's location on Mars. It has not been heard from for eight months since then.
Duke, who retired as a Brigadier General in the US army, shared the emotional moments of putting his foot on the moon with students.
The operation will reduce the highest point of the MAVEN spacecraft’s elliptical orbit from 6,200 to 4,500 kilometres above the surface and prepare it to take on additional responsibility as a data-relay satellite for the Mars 2020 rover.
On the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Monday, a UN data revealed that despite 15 years of international effortto promote women in science, they continue to face barriers, Efe news said.
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