Scientists have seen Icarus, the farthest star ever seen, through Hubble Space Telescope The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It is the most versatile telescope that has ever been sent to space and that’s the reason why it has solved so many mysteries. One of…
Gravity is what holds our world together. There are certain regions in the world where the impact of gravity differs from the rest of the world. Before knowing any more about such places, let’s have a look at what gravity actually is. The scientific definition says that Gravity is the force by which a planet…
Russia comes with a big plan for 2019: Wants to send people on Mars. Russia and United States have quite a long history when it comes to being rivals. From the advancement of warfare equipment to the accomplishment of space exploration, these nations are competing for supremacy over one and another. Both the countries are…
What lies beneath Jupiter’s clouds is Breathtaking. Once space exploration became popular, it expanded in every direction. Humans progressed in every direction from Moon to Pluto. We commonly hear terms like the Parallel universe and other galaxies that show the development we have done in this field. It can be safely assumed that all the…
A lot of space missions are planned these days but the task of being an astronomer is not easy by any stretch of the imagination. Firstly, the training that is needed in order to make an actual space trip is quite tough. Once you are selected to be a part of a mission, the problems…
The continuous surveillance of NASA brings about a new development every few days The interest of people in Mars is increasing day by day. A major reason for this is that scientists are persistent that human life might survive on the Red planet. Following this claim, a lot of effort is being put in to…
The robotic arm on International Space Station is inspiring Doctors Space exploration is given immense importance as efforts are being made to search a place where humans can survive other than the Earth. The hefty sum of money is spent annually to pursue this ultimate goal. The knowledge of space is also helping us to…
Are we meant to leave Earth? Or to save it? Global Warming and Greenhouse Effects are discussed regularly as the cause of climate change and the negative effects they have on human life are alarming. The causes of Earth’s greenhouse effect include water vapors, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and the chlorofluorocarbons. Out of all…
“The space agency is planning to launch Chandrayan-2 Mission around April this year.” MoS PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh said. India had its first mission to Moon in 2008. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched it in October and it operated till August of next year. This mission took Indian space program to a new level…
Is Earth affected if a Giant asteroid hits the Moon? Stories about the end of the world have always been around. The latest one in this regard which also got quite a lot of spotlight was that the world will come to an end in 2012. The reason that was given was that another planet,…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 as an independent agency for a civilian space program. It was also responsible for aeronautics and aerospace research. It was involved with many famous space explorations including Apollo Moon landing and the Shuttle Space. Currently, it is supporting the International…
Rockets will be replaced by Space Elevator by 2050. Space exploration has been a fascinating phenomenon for humans ever since and that’s why more and more money is being invested in this industry. Advancement in technology has lead to the development of newer techniques for exploring space and most of them have improved the…
New Mars Mission HI-SEAS VI has begun on top of a Volcano in Hawaii. Mars is the most important planet of our Solar System, other than Earth, as a whole lot of efforts are being made to colonize it with Humans. A lot of people are working to make this dream, a REALITY. It is…
First Deep Space Atomic Clock will be sent to outer space through the second flight of Falcon heavy, says NASA. The first launch of Falcon Heavy took place on 6th February from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Despite the fact that one of its core missed the planned landing and smashed in the ocean, the launch was…
Jupiter has Great Red Spot. Did you know that Neptune has also one? It is black! Neptune has had a series of dark spots and the first one that was discovered by the scientists came along in 1989. This dark spot is famously known as Great Dark Spot and was formed in Southern Hemisphere of…
What’s lies within the Orion nebula? Combining normal images with infrared, NASA succesfuly created a three-dimensional journey to the Orion nebula with the help of images captured by Huble(visible) and Spitzer(infrared) Space Telescopes. A team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, and the Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California, has produced the best and…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf companions, but also three giant planets. They even found an example of binary planets where two planets orbit…
Does the Effects of Gravity and Light affect the growth of the plants in space? Sight, scent, hearing, taste and touch. We know plants have all five human senses. But do they have a unique sense of gravity? That’s what researchers are trying to demonstrate. With the help of of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, NASA’s…
A 8-planet Solar System Discovered Using Artificial Intelligence Using artificial intelligence for new discoveries, NASA scientists and Google engineers discovered eight planets circling a Sun-like star. The agency announced Thursday that the new discovered Solar System could be very similar to ours, the last one not being the only one of its kind in the cosmos.…
Bresnik and Crewmates Return Safe To Earth From ISS Landing in Kazakhstan after opening a new chapter in the scientific capability of humanity’s premier microgravity laboratory, three crew members who have been living and working aboard the International Space Station returned to Earth on Thursday. NASA confirms that “Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight…
55 Years Ago Mariner 2 Was Passing Close To Venus Friday, December 14, 1962, while The Beatles were recording their first No. 1 hit, “Please, Please Me,” 36 million miles away data is coming back to Earth, sent from the Mariner 2 spacecraft, which comes within range of Venus. At that time, a young scientist named Carl Sagan has…
Bright Areas on Ceres Suggest Geologic Activity The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres is generally looking quite dark, but with notable exceptions. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft sent back images of hundreds of bright areas that stand out there. Now, scientists have a better sense of how these reflective areas formed and changed over time – processes indicative…
NASA’s Astronaut Scott Kelly talks about his body changes during his stay on International Space Station. After spending 340 consecutive days onboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on March 1, 2016, becoming the first American to spend almost a year in space. The “Expedition 46 mission” commander’s changes were visible:…
A Russian engineer aboard the ISS announces an unprecedented event. Anton Skaplerov says he has discovered outside the ISS a bacteria that does not come from the Earth. It wasn’t there when the Space Station was launched into the orbit. Is it an alien body? The bacteria was discovered by the astronauts who took samples…
After 37 years without use, the thrusters of Voyager 1 successfully fired up Wednesday. The only human-made object in interstellar space, the fastest and farthest spacecraft, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been flying for 40 years. But how can it still communicate with Earth? The spacecraft relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself to our…
NASA Is Asking For Your Help! Can You Find A Name for New Horizon’s Next Flyby Target? On 1st of January, 2019 New Horizons spacraft is going to fly and collect more details about 2014 MU69, a rock situated at the edge of our Solar System. NASA and the New Horizons team are asking the public…
NASA’s astronomers discovered an unique phenomenon with Markarian 335 Black Hole. Two telescopes for astronomical observation, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array and NASA’s Explorer missions Swift, have managed to caught a supermassive black hole in the midst of a giant eruption of X-ray light. “This is the first time we have been able to link the…
4000 Kilometers Away From The Shore NASA “Builds” Its Own Cemetery For Space Junk. Situated in the South Pacific, between Australia, New Zealand and South America, “Point Nemo” has collected until now almost 260 pieces of space junk, especially from Russia. NASA has decided to use this place since 1971, when the chance of seeing…
NASA’s 10.000 Pictures of The Apollo Moon Landing Mission Are Not A Secret Anymore. Past year was full of speculations about Apollo 11 mission photos. NASA want people to trust them, so they just released all photos they’ve taken during the lunar landing mission. 48 years passed since then and even now new generations of…
NASA announces next Mars Rover to Have 23 ‘Eyes’. When NASA’s ‘first rover outside of Earth-Moon system’ Mars Pathfinder arrived on Mars in 1997, it had only five cameras onboard. It’s obvious, until now camera technologies have taken huge steps foward worldwide and, of course, NASA is going to advance. The 2020 Mars mission will…