NASA's next Mars rover progresses toward 2020 launch

Jul 17, 2016, at 05:01 am

California, July 16 (IBNS) After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in the summer of 2020 and arrive on the Red Planet in February 2021.

NASA sails full-speed ahead in solar system exploration

Jul 16, 2016, at 03:26 pm

Washington, July 16 (IBNS) NASA’s Juno is now poised to shine a spotlight on the origins and interior structure of the largest planet in our solar system. As we wait for Juno's first close-up images of Jupiter (to be taken Aug. 27 during the spacecraft's next pass by the planet), NASA continues to explore our solar system to help answer fundamental questions about how we came to be, where we are going and whether we are alone in the universe.

Humans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations

Jul 13, 2016, at 10:47 pm

London, July 13 (IBNS) New research, using a Bayesian inference model of audio and visual stimuli, has shown how our perception of time lies mid-way between reality and our expectations.

Black Hole makes material wobble around it

Jul 13, 2016, at 03:22 pm

California, July 13 (IBNS) The European Space Agency's orbiting X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, has proved the existence of a "gravitational vortex" around a black hole.

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft sends first in-orbit view

Jul 13, 2016, at 03:21 pm

Washington, July 13 (IBNS): The JunoCam camera aboard NASA's Juno mission is operational and sending down data after the spacecraft’s July 4 arrival at Jupiter.

Virtual reality 'Chinook' to help train medics in UK Armed Forces

Jul 12, 2016, at 04:35 am

London, July 11 (IBNS) A new simulator of a Chinook helicopter, bringing together virtual reality and an inflatable enclosure, has been conceived to help to support the future training of the UK Armed Forces’ Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT).

Tethys tops Saturn

Jul 12, 2016, at 02:52 am

California, July 11 (IBNS) An illusion of perspective, Saturn’s moon Tethys seems to hang above the planet's north pole in this view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate

Jul 10, 2016, at 04:49 am

California, July 9 (IBNS) Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres. Most of these areas likely have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now.

Climate change may shrink Adélie Penguin range by end of century

Jul 09, 2016, at 09:02 pm

California, July 9 (IBNS) Climate has influenced the distribution patterns of Adélie penguins across Antarctica for millions of years. The geologic record tells us that as glaciers expanded and covered Adélie breeding habitats with ice, penguins in the region abandoned their colonies.

NASA looks at Typhoon Nepartak over Taiwan in visible and infrared Ligh

Jul 09, 2016, at 08:58 pm

California, July 9 (IBNS) NASA's Aqua and Terra satellites provided a visible and infrared view of Typhoon Nepartak before and during its movement over Taiwan.

New crew members, including NASA Biologist, launch to space station

Jul 07, 2016, at 02:03 pm

California, July 7 (IBNS) Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and Japan are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:36 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 6 (7:36 a.m. Baikonur time, July 7).

Google doodle gets a Juno makeover

Jul 05, 2016, at 04:55 pm

Mountain View, July 5 (IBNS): Google on Tuesday decorated its homepage with a doodle dedicated to Juno, the spacecraft that successfully entered Jupiter's orbit.

Juno enters orbit around Jupiter

Jul 05, 2016, at 03:28 pm

California, July 5 (IBNS) NASA’s Juno mission has completed its main engine burn and entered orbit around Jupiter. Watch the live NASA news briefing at 1 a.m. EDT for more information.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft getting close to Jupiter

Jul 03, 2016, at 04:03 am

Washington, July 2 (IBNS) NASA's Juno mission, launched nearly five years ago, will soon reach its final destination: the most massive planet in our solar system, Jupiter. On the evening of July 4, at roughly 9 p.m. PDT (12 a.m. EDT, July 5), the spacecraft will complete a burn of its main engine, placing it in orbit around the king of planets.

MRS Air Missile launch: President congratulates DRDO

Jul 01, 2016, at 11:24 pm

New Delhi, July 1 (IBNS) President Pranab Mukherjee congratulated DRDO on the successful test-firing of the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft enters Jupiter's magnetic field

Jul 01, 2016, at 03:32 pm

Washington, July 1 (IBNS) NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet's magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what's going on inside Jupiter.

NASA Rover's sand-dune studies yield surprise

Jul 01, 2016, at 02:55 pm

Washington, July 1 (IBNS) Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history.

Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere

Jul 01, 2016, at 02:36 pm

Washington, July 1 (IBNS)Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. This observation program is supported by measurements made by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently on its way to Jupiter.

NASA awards contract to increase water recovery on Space Station

Jun 29, 2016, at 09:08 pm

Washington, June 29 (IBNS) NASA has selected Paragon Space Development Corporation, a small business headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, to develop a system that will increase the rate of water recovery from the urine of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

NASA maps California drought effects on Sierra Trees

Jun 29, 2016, at 03:35 am

California, June 28 (IBNS) A new map created with measurements from an airborne instrument developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, reveals the devastating effect of California’s ongoing drought on Sierra Nevada conifer forests.

NASA's IMERG measures deadly West Virginia flooding rainfall

Jun 28, 2016, at 03:43 pm

California, June 28(Just Earth News): Since June 23, 2016 over two dozen people have been reported killed and hundreds of homes have been destroyed by flooding in West Virginia. Using satellite data, NASA calculated the heavy rainfall that occurred over the state.

NASA Rover findings point to a more Earth-like Martian past

Jun 28, 2016, at 04:21 am

Washington, June 27 (IBNS) Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

Clandestine Black Hole may represent new population

Jun 28, 2016, at 04:12 am

Washington, June 27 (IBNS) Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low-mass star and a black hole.

Seeds of supermassive black holes could be revealed by gravitational waves: Study

Jun 28, 2016, at 04:05 am

London,June 27 (IBNS) Gravitational waves captured by space-based detectors could help identify the origins of supermassive black holes, according to new computer simulations of the Universe.

NASA weighs use of Rover to image potential Mars water sites

Jun 25, 2016, at 02:55 pm

California, June 25 (IBNS) Ever since it was announced that there may be evidence of liquid water on present-day Mars, NASA scientists have wondered how best to further investigate these long, seasonally changing dark streaks in the hope of finding evidence of life – past or present – on the Red Planet.

MoU singed between RD Ministry & ISRO for geo-tagging assets

Jun 25, 2016, at 03:25 am

New Delhi, June 24 (IBNS) A Memorandum of Understanding was signed here between the Rural Development Ministry and ISRO, Department of Space for geo-tagging the assets created under MGNREGA in each gram panchayat.

Volcanoes get quite before they erupt

Jun 25, 2016, at 02:35 am

Washington, D.C, June 24 (IBNS) When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics—seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas escapes through the vent, or the surrounding ground starts to deform.

Hubble sees new dark spot on Neptune

Jun 25, 2016, at 12:58 am

California, June 24 (IBNS) New images obtained on May 16, 2016, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune.

ISRO organises 'Make in India' Conference

Jun 24, 2016, at 02:29 am

Bengaluru, June 23 (IBNS): The 'Make in India' Conference on Enabling Spacecraft Systems Realisation through Industries (ESSRI - 2016) was organised on Thursday at ISRO Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.

Pervasive ice retreat in West Antarctica

Jun 23, 2016, at 02:07 pm

California, June 23 (IBNS) Along the Bellingshausen Sea coast of West Antarctica, ice has been retreating inland being lost to the sea.