Five years after the Chelyabinsk Meteor: NASA leads efforts in planetary defense
Feb 20, 2018, at 02:27 pm
Washington, Feb 20 (IBNS): A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning of Feb. 15, 2013.
UMD researchers find gene that may greatly increase strawberry production
Feb 17, 2018, at 11:46 pm
New York, Feb 17 (IBNS): Researchers at the University of Maryland have identified and isolated a gene that is directly involved in the way strawberry plants grow, spread and produce fruit.
Long-lived Mars Rover opportunity keeps finding surprises
Feb 17, 2018, at 10:03 pm
Washington, Feb 17 (IBNS): NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible "rock stripes."
ISRO planning to launch Chandrayaan-2 mission around April this year: Dr Jitendra Singh
Feb 17, 2018, at 01:37 am
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IBNS): Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh said that Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch Chandrayan-2 Mission around April this year.
Those scented products you love? NOAA study finds they can cause air pollution
Feb 17, 2018, at 12:54 am
Washington, Feb 16 (IBNS): Emissions from volatile chemical products like perfumes, paints and other scented consumer items now rival vehicles as a pollution source in greater Los Angeles, according to a surprising new NOAA-led study.
Hubble sees Neptune's mysterious shrinking storm
Feb 17, 2018, at 12:46 am
Washington, Feb 16 (IBNS): Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Five years after the Chelyabinsk Meteor: NASA leads efforts in planetary defense
Feb 17, 2018, at 12:36 am
Washington, Feb 16 (IBNS): A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning of Feb. 15, 2013.
Supermassive Black Holes are outgrowing their Galaxies
Feb 17, 2018, at 12:17 am
Washington, Feb 16 (IBNS): The biggest black holes in the Universe are growing faster than the rate of stars being formed in their galaxies, according to two new studies using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes.
Brain scans show why people get aggressive after a drink or two
Feb 14, 2018, at 12:24 am
Melbourne, Feb 13 (IBNS): UNSW scientists measuring blood flow in the brain to better understand why people often become aggressive after drinking alcohol have found that brain areas that temper aggression shut off when people drink.
New 3D vision discovered in praying mantis
Feb 10, 2018, at 01:18 am
London, Feb 9 (IBNS): Miniature glasses have revealed a new form of 3D vision in praying mantises that could lead to simpler visual processing for robots.
Could a protein called klotho block dementia and aging?, finds study
Feb 10, 2018, at 01:12 am
New York, Feb 9 (IBNS): Neurologist and neuroscientist Dr. Dena Dubal, Ph.D., is taking an innovative approach to battling neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
New horizons captures record-breaking images in the Kuiper Belt
Feb 10, 2018, at 12:31 am
Washington, Feb 9 (IBNS): NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
New clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet compositions, atmospheres
Feb 06, 2018, at 09:30 pm
Washington, Feb 6 (IBNS): In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away. Thanks to data from a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes, we know more about TRAPPIST-1 than any other planetary system besides our solar system.
Mount Sharp 'photobombs' Mars Curiosity Rover
Feb 05, 2018, at 01:59 pm
Washington, Feb 5 (IBNS):A new self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover is the start of a clay-rich slope scientists are eager to begin exploring.
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to fly safely past earth today: NASA
Feb 05, 2018, at 01:08 am
Washington, Feb 4 (IBNS): Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC). At the time of closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the distance between Earth and the Moon (about 2.6 million miles, or 4.2 million kilometers).
Slow but steady: Brain evolution of turtles
Feb 03, 2018, at 02:41 pm
New York, Feb 3 (IBNS): Turtles’ brains have evolved slowly, but constantly, over the last 210 million years to reach a variety in form and complexity which rivals that of other animal groups, according to new research.
World to witness 'Super Blue Blood Moon' tonight
Jan 31, 2018, at 11:39 pm
Washington, Jan 31 (IBNS): The Jan. 31 full moon is special for three reasons: it’s the third in a series of “supermoons,” when the Moon is closer to Earth in its orbit -- known as perigee -- and about 14 percent brighter than usual.
Global temperature targets missed within decades unless carbon emissions reversed: Study
Jan 31, 2018, at 09:42 pm
London, Jan 31 (IBNS): New projections by researchers from the Universities of Liverpool and Southampton, and the Australian National University in Canberra, could be the catalyst the world has sought to determine how best to meet its obligations to reduce carbon emissions and better manage global warming as defined by the Paris Agreement.
Dust storms linked to gas escape from Mars atmosphere
Jan 24, 2018, at 02:30 pm
Washington, Jan 24 (IBNS): Some Mars experts are eager and optimistic for a dust storm this year to grow so grand it darkens skies around the entire Red Planet.
What scientists can learn about Moon during Jan. 31 Eclipse
Jan 24, 2018, at 02:27 pm
Washington, Jan 24 (IBNS): The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer’s equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, camera.
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to fly safely past Earth on Feb 4
Jan 22, 2018, at 08:53 pm
Washington, Jan 22 (IBNS): Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC).
‘Super Blue Blood Moon’ coming on Jan 31
Jan 20, 2018, at 12:47 pm
Washington, Jan 20 (IBNS): If you live in the western part of North America, Alaska, and the Hawaiian islands, you might set your alarm early the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 31 for a lunar trifecta: a pre-dawn “super blue blood moon.”
India test fires fifth flight of Agni-5 Ballistic Missile
Jan 19, 2018, at 03:35 am
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IBNS): Long Range Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Agni-5, was successfully flight tested for its full range at 0953 hrs from Dr Abdul Kalam Island, Odisha on Thursday.
NASA Science to return to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft
Jan 13, 2018, at 02:35 pm
Washington, Jan 13 (IBNS): SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, Jan. 13, west of Baja California, with approximately 4,100 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station.
PSLV successfully launches 31 satellites in a single flight, President Kovind, PM Modi congratulate
Jan 13, 2018, at 12:32 am
Sriharikota, Jan 12 (IBNS): A major landmark in the history of India's space journey was touched when ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its forty second flight, successfully launched the 710 kg Cartosat-2 Series Remote Sensing Satellite along with 30 co-passenger satellites on Fridayfrom Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion Nebula
Jan 12, 2018, at 09:11 pm
Washington, Jan 12 (IBNS): In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, 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 each other in the absence of a parent star.
India's ISRO launches 100th satellite
Jan 12, 2018, at 03:09 pm
Sriharikota, Jan 12 (IBNS): In a major development, India's space agency ISRO on Friday launched its 100th satellite.
ISRO to launch 100th satellite today
Jan 12, 2018, at 02:26 pm
Sriharikota, Jan 12 (IBNS): India's space agency ISRO is all set to launch the country's 100th satellite along with 30 others from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Friday.
No planets needed: NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generate
Jan 12, 2018, at 02:11 pm
Washington, Jan 12 (IBNS): When exoplanet scientists first spotted patterns in disks of dust and gas around young stars, they thought newly formed planets might be the cause. But a recent NASA study cautions that there may be another explanation — one that doesn’t involve planets at all.
Multi-planet system found through crowdsourcing
Jan 12, 2018, at 02:06 pm
Washington, Jan 12 (IBNS): A system of at least five exoplanets has been discovered by citizen scientists through a project called Exoplanet Explorers, part of the online platform Zooniverse, using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope.