From the colonies to the space race - past, present, future converge in Fourth Committee
Dec 29, 2018, at 08:32 am
New York, Dec 29 (IBNS): A timeline that stretches from the colonial past, through the present, and into the future for the final frontier in space, defines one of the United Nations General Assembly’s most versatile Main Committees – the Fourth Committee.
Cabinet clears Gaganyaan Programme, 3 Indians will be sent to space by 2022
Dec 28, 2018, at 05:59 pm
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IBNS): Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the Gaganyaan Programme with demonstration of Indian Human Spaceflight capability to low earth orbit for a mission duration ranging from one orbital period to a maximum of seven days.
Dec 28, 2018, at 05:15 pm
New York, Dec 28 (IBNS): Abandoned Christmas trees could be saved from landfill and turned into paint and food sweeteners according to new research by the University of Sheffield.
Crashes increase when speed limits dip far below engineering recommendation: Study
Dec 26, 2018, at 06:22 pm
New York, Dec 26 (IBNS): Speed limits set only five miles per hour below engineering recommendations produce a statistically significant decrease in total, fatal and injury crashes, and property-damage-only crashes, according to a group of Penn State researchers.
Scientists discover new, exotic class of planets outside solar system
Dec 22, 2018, at 08:45 am
Zurich, Dec 22 (IBNS): Researchers at the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have discovered a new, exotic class of planets outside our solar system.
India's ISRO launches GSAT-7A satellite
Dec 19, 2018, at 05:23 pm
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IBNS): Adding one more feather to its crown, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday launched nation's newest satellite GSAT-7A.
University of Birmingham leads discussions on boosting ‘clean cold’ in India
Dec 18, 2018, at 06:04 pm
New Delhi, Dec 18 (IBNS): Experts from the University of Birmingham led discussions on broadening the use of sustainable cooling technology in India and supporting the Indian Government’s drive to meet key development targets.
Scientists find a young star caught forming like a planet
Dec 16, 2018, at 05:44 pm
London, Dec 16 (IBNS): Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to date, and revealed an unexpected companion in orbit around it.
UN space-based tool opens new horizons to track land-use on Earth’s surface
Dec 13, 2018, at 09:16 am
New York, Dec 13 (IBNS): Satellite-based tracking to chart how land is being used on the earth’s surface is about to get much easier and more accessible, the UN food agency has announced, launching a new online portal developed in collaboration with the United States Space Agency, NASA.
More Glaciers in east Antarctica are waking up: NASA
Dec 12, 2018, at 04:08 pm
New York, Dec 12 (IBNS): East Antarctica has the potential to reshape coastlines around the world through sea level rise, but scientists have long considered it more stable than its neighbor, West Antarctica.
NASA InSight Lander 'hears' Martian winds
Dec 08, 2018, at 05:19 pm
NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander, which touched down on Mars just 10 days ago, has provided the first ever "sounds" of Martian winds on the Red Planet. A media teleconference about these sounds will be held today at 12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST).
India’s heaviest communication satellite GSAT-11 launched successfully from French Guiana
Dec 05, 2018, at 04:18 pm
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite GSAT-11 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours on Wednesday.
India's heaviest satellite launched, Narendra Modi congratulates scientists
Dec 05, 2018, at 10:16 am
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IBNS): In a major achievement, India’s heaviest satellite GSAT 11, weighing 5,854 kg, was launched from Kourou space centre in French Guiana by European commercial launch provider Arianespace on Wednesday.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Dec 04, 2018, at 05:37 pm
Washington, Dec 4 (IBNS): NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday.
LHC prepares for new achievements
Dec 03, 2018, at 05:55 pm
Geneva, Dec 3 (IBNS): Early this morning, operators of the CERN Control Centre turned off the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ending the very successful second run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. CERN’s accelerator complex will be stopped for about two years to enable major upgrade and renovation works.
World simply ‘not on track’ to slow climate change this year: UN weather agency
Nov 30, 2018, at 08:03 am
New York,Nov 30 (IBNS) The world is heading in the wrong direction to slow climate change after another year of near-record temperatures, the head of the UN’s weather agency said on Thursday.
Antarctic Ozone hole is healing, confirms IIT KGP study
Nov 29, 2018, at 11:54 pm
Kharagpur, Nov 29 (IBNS): While the world is debating on climate change and global warming, researchers at IIT Kharagpur have given the environmental evangelists a reason to rejoice. A research team from the Center of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORAL) at IIT Kharagpur have come up with new data confirming that the Antarctic Ozone Hole is on a healing path.
PSLV-C43 successfully launches earth observation satellite HysIS and 30 foreign satellites
Nov 29, 2018, at 09:18 pm
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IBNS): The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C43) successfully launched 31 satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota on Thursday.
ISRO launches 31 satellites with PSLVC43 rocket today
Nov 29, 2018, at 10:21 am
Sriharikota, Nov 29 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 31 satellites with PSLVC43 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here on Thursday.
monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild.
Nov 27, 2018, at 04:34 pm
New York, Nov 27 (IBNS): New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that consumer-grade drones are effective tools for monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild.
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Nov 27, 2018, at 12:49 pm
Washington DC, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-km) journey from Earth.
NASA InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to learn what lies beneath
Nov 27, 2018, at 08:58 am
Washington, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident.
NASA, Northrop Grumman launch space station, national lab cargo
Nov 17, 2018, at 07:49 pm
Washington, Nov 17 (IBNS): Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
ISRO launches communication satellite
Nov 14, 2018, at 05:40 pm
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IBNS): Adding one more glorious chapter to the history of India's space chapter, India's heaviest rocket was lifted off successfully from Sriharikota on Wednesday.
UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa
Nov 13, 2018, at 09:15 am
New York, Nov 13 (IBNS): Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.
Research brings personalised medicine to treat leukaemia one step closer
Nov 12, 2018, at 11:00 pm
Birmingham, Nov 12 (IBNS): Scientists at the University of Birmingham have revealed the roles that different types of gene mutations play in causing blood cancers in a study that was the culmination of a decade’s research.
Massive Antarctic iceberg spotted on NASA IceBridge Flight
Nov 10, 2018, at 07:17 am
Washington, Nov 10 (IBNS): NASA’s Operation IceBridge on Wednesday, November 7, flew over an iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan – the first time anyone has laid eyes on the giant iceberg, dubbed B-46 by the U.S. National Ice Center, that broke off from Pine Island Glacier in late October.
AI will match human intelligence by 2062, claims UNSW expert
Nov 05, 2018, at 03:24 pm
Sydney, Nov 5 (IBNS): Scientia Professor Toby Walsh tells the Festival of Dangerous Ideas that Artificial Intelligence is less than 50 years away from matching humans.
CSE welcomes Kerala’s Action Plan to contain antimicrobial resistance
Oct 26, 2018, at 08:34 pm
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IBNS): Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Action Plan (KARSAP), which was released by Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala, at a state-level consultation held in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
Oct 11, 2018, at 08:16 am
New York, Oct 11 (IBNS): Gathered at a United Nations conference in Bangkok, countries from the Asia-Pacific region pledged to work together on Wednesday to leverage the power of space technology and boost sustainable development.