India's heaviest rocket blasts off with GSAT-19, PM Modi congratulates
Jun 05, 2017, at 11:55 pm
Sriharikota, June 5 (IBNS): Creating history, ISRO on Monday successfully launched its latest communication satellite GSAT-19 with its heaviest rocket - the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here.
Antarctic ice rift close to calving, after growing 17km in 6 days, says study
Jun 02, 2017, at 11:53 pm
London, June 2 (IBNS): The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica has grown by 17km in the last few days and is now only 13km from the ice front, indicating that calving of an iceberg is probably very close, Swansea University researchers revealed after studying the latest satellite data.
NASA’s SDO sees partial eclipse in space
May 27, 2017, at 11:08 pm
Washington, May 27 (IBNS): On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun.
New stretcher to prevent baby deaths in ambulances
May 27, 2017, at 02:10 am
London, May 26 (IBNS): Academics and industry partners in Birmingham, UK are developing a new device that will ensure newborn babies could survive in the event of a crash in an ambulance at up to 40 miles per hour.
A whole new Jupiter: First science results from NASA’s Juno mission
May 26, 2017, at 09:49 pm
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.
New horizons deploys global team for rare look at next Flyby target
May 26, 2017, at 09:47 pm
Washington, May 26 (IBNS): On New Year’s Day 2019, more than 4 billion miles from home, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will race past a small Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69 – making this rocky remnant of planetary formation the farthest object ever encountered by any spacecraft.
Now deaf-blind can “watch†television without intermediaries
May 22, 2017, at 03:02 am
New York, May 21 (IBNS): The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Telefónica and FASOCIDE (the Spanish acronym for the Federation of Deaf-Blind Persons Associations) presented the PervasiveSUB technology, ground-breaking software which allows deaf-blind persons to receive and enjoy television content without intermediaries at the same time as the people around them.
Scientists look to skies to improve Tsunami detection
May 19, 2017, at 11:39 pm
Washington, May 19 (IBNS): A team of scientists from Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has developed a new approach to assist in the ongoing development of timely tsunami detection systems, based upon measurements of how tsunamis disturb a part of Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA's CPEX tackles a weather fundamental
May 19, 2017, at 11:32 pm
Washington, May 19 (IBNS): A NASA-funded field campaign getting underway in Florida on May 25 has a real shot at improving meteorologists' ability to answer some of the most fundamental questions about weather: Where will it rain? When? How much?
NASA's IceBridge wraps up 2017 Arctic campaign With Southern Greenland flight
May 18, 2017, at 04:58 pm
Washington, May 18 (IBNS): A fjord in southern Greenland, as seen during Operation IceBridge's last flight of the 2017 Arctic campaign, on May 12, 2017.
NASA asks scientific community to think on possible Europa Lander Instruments
May 18, 2017, at 04:15 pm
Washington, May 18 (IBNS): NASA is asking scientists to consider what would be the best instruments to include on a mission to land on Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.
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NASA annual Arctic Ice survey expanded range this year
May 18, 2017, at 04:11 pm
Washington, May 18 (IBNS): NASA’s annual survey of changes in Arctic ice cover greatly expanded its reach this year in a series of flights that wrapped up on May 12. It was the most ambitious spring campaign in the region for NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to monitor ice changes at Earth’s poles, which also included a rapid-response flight over a new crack in Petermann Glacier, one of the largest and fastest-changing glaciers in Greenland.
Mars Rover opportunity begins study of Valley's origin
May 16, 2017, at 11:49 pm
Washington, May 16 (IBNS): NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the main destination of its current two-year extended mission -- an ancient fluid-carved valley incised on the inner slope of a vast crater's rim.
Naveen Patnaik flags off top 20 YATS winners' visit to ISRO, Ahmedabad
May 16, 2017, at 05:01 am
Bhubaneswar/Kolkata, May 15 (IBNS): The top 20 budding astronomers from across Odisha are all set for a visit to the Space Application Centre( SAC) of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad.
NASA affirms plan for first mission of SLS, Orion
May 16, 2017, at 01:05 am
Washington, May 15 (IBNS): In February, NASA began an effort looking at the feasibility of putting crew aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft -- Exploration Mission-1, or EM-1. After weighing the data and assessing all implications, the agency will continue pursuing the original plan for the first launch, as a rigorous flight test of the integrated systems without crew.
Hubble catches a Galaxy duo by the "Hare"
May 13, 2017, at 10:33 pm
Washington, May 13 (IBNS): An image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the unusual galaxy IRAS 06076-2139, found in the constellation Lepus (The Hare).
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Massive cyber-attack hits at least 99 countries
May 13, 2017, at 03:56 pm
Mumbai, May 13 (IBNS): A massive ransomware has hit at least 99 countries, retarding operations by locking down computers, reports said.
Astronomers pursue renegade supermassive Black Hole
May 13, 2017, at 12:26 am
Washington, May 12 (IBNS): Supermassive black holes are generally stationary objects, sitting at the centers of most galaxies.
NASA study finds unexpectedly primitive atmosphere around ‘Warm Neptune’
May 13, 2017, at 12:18 am
Washington, May 12 (IBNS): A study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.
CERN celebrates completion of Linac 4, its brand new linear particle accelerator
May 09, 2017, at 10:03 pm
Geneva, May 9 (IBNS): At a ceremony on Tuesday, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Linac 4 is due to feed the CERN accelerator complex with particle beams of higher energy, which will allow the LHC to reach higher luminosity by 2021.
Antarctic study sheds light on central ice sheet
May 07, 2017, at 10:11 pm
London, May 7 (IBNS): Central parts of Antarctica’s ice sheet have been stable for millions of years, from a time when conditions were considerably warmer than now, research suggests.
GSLV successfully launches South Asia Satellite
May 06, 2017, at 01:41 am
Sriharikota, May 5 (IBNS): India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F09) successfully launched the 2230 kg South |Asia Satellite (GSAT-9) into its planned Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO) on Friday.
South Asia Satellite launched successfully
May 05, 2017, at 10:59 pm
Sriharikota, May 5 (IBNS): Creating history and carrying a 450-crore communications satellite, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle or GSLV lifted off from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on Friday and was launched successfully.
Illustration of an Earth-sized 'Tatooine' planet
May 05, 2017, at 10:06 pm
Washington, May 5 (IBNS): With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world.
AIRS: 15 Years of Seeing What's in the Air
May 05, 2017, at 10:05 pm
Washington, May 5 (IBNS): Accurate weather forecasts save lives. NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, launched on this date 15 years ago on NASA’s Aqua satellite, significantly increased weather forecasting accuracy within a couple of years by providing extraordinary three-dimensional maps of clouds, air temperature and water vapor throughout the atmosphere's weather-making layer. Fifteen years later, AIRS continues to be a valuable asset for forecasters worldwide, sending 7 billion observations streaming into forecasting centers every day.
US announces €1 ml pledge for modernisation of IAEA nuclear applications laboratories
May 03, 2017, at 02:26 pm
Vienna, May 3 (IBNS): The United States has recently pledged to donate €1 million to support the modernisation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Nuclear Applications Laboratories in Seibersdorf, outside Vienna, an official release stated.
Hubble's bright shining Lizard Star
Apr 29, 2017, at 10:02 pm
Washington, Apr 29 (IBNS): In space, being outshone is an occupational hazard.
NASA-funded research reveals lull in the formation time of mega basins on Mars
Apr 29, 2017, at 12:18 am
Washington, Apr 28 (IBNS): Since the earliest days of our solar system’s history, asteroid impacts have shaped the planets and contributed to their evolution. New research funded by NASA shows that Mars experienced ten times fewer giant impacts than some previous estimates.
CERN, American Physical Society sign open access agreement for SCOAP3
Apr 28, 2017, at 01:49 am
Geneva, Apr 27 (IBNS) The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the American Physical Society (APS) signed an agreement on Thursday for SCOAP3 – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.
New ALICE experiment results show novel phenomena in proton collisions
Apr 25, 2017, at 02:34 am
Geneva, Apr 24 (IBNS): In a paper published today in Nature Physics, the ALICE collaboration reports that proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei. This behaviour was spotted through observation of so-called strange hadrons in certain proton collisions in which a large number of particles are created.