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.
X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of 'killer' Black Hole
Jun 23, 2016, at 01:45 pm
California, June 23 (IBNS): Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too close. When X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, they were detected by NASA's Swift satellite, which notified astronomers around the world. Within days, scientists concluded that the outburst, now known as Swift J1644+57, represented both the tidal disruption of a star and the sudden flare-up of a previously inactive black hole.
Satellites launch: Sonia Gandhi congratulates ISRO scientists
Jun 22, 2016, at 09:35 pm
New Delhi, June 22 (IBNS): Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday congratulated scientists at ISRO afte the organization successfully launched 20 Satellites in a single flight from its flagship rocket PSLV-C34.
ISRO sets new milestone : Launches record 20 satellites in one go
Jun 22, 2016, at 07:53 pm
Shriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, June 22 (IBNS) : Setting a new milestone, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully launched 20 Satellites in a single flight from its flagship rocket PSLV-C34.
PSLV-C34 successfully launches 20 satellites in a single flight
Jun 22, 2016, at 07:02 pm
Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, June 22 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C34), on its 36th flight, successfully launched the 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 19 co-passenger satellites, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday.
ISRO places in orbit record 20 Satellites, PM lauds scientists
Jun 22, 2016, at 05:13 pm
Sriharikot, Andhra Pradesh, June 22 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday placed in orbit a record 20 satellites from its flagship rocket PSLV in a 26-minute flight from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
Astronomers find the first 'Wind Nebula' around a Magnetar
Jun 22, 2016, at 03:18 pm
Washington, June 22 (IBNS): Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time.
NASA's K2 finds newborn exoplanet around young star
Jun 21, 2016, at 05:39 am
Washington, June 20 (IBNS) Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery was made using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, as well as the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars beyond our sun.
Hubble sweeps scattered stars in Sagittarius
Jun 18, 2016, at 09:45 pm
California, June 18 (IBNS) This colorful and star-studded view of the Milky Way galaxy was captured when the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope pointed its cameras towards the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). Blue stars can be seen scattered across the frame, set against a distant backdrop of red-hued cosmic companions. This blue litter most likely formed at the same time from the same collapsing molecular cloud.
Gravitational waves observed from another cosmic collision of a pair of black holes
Jun 16, 2016, at 11:32 pm
London, June 16 (IBNS) On 26 December 2015 at 03:38:53 GMT, the twin LIGO instruments observed a binary black hole coalescence, named GW151226.
Rover opportunity wrapping up study of Martian Valley
Jun 16, 2016, at 03:19 pm
California, June 16 (IBNS) "Marathon Valley," slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover may soon move on.
Cabinet approves India’s Membership of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program
Jun 16, 2016, at 03:26 am
New Delhi, June 15 (IBNS) The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for Indian membership of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) consortium by signing an MoU with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for geosciences.
NASA spots single Methane leak from Space
Jun 15, 2016, at 02:53 pm
California, June 15 (IBNS) For the first time, an instrument onboard an orbiting spacecraft has measured the methane emissions from a single, specific leaking facility on Earth’s surface. The observation -- by the Hyperion spectrometer on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) -- is an important breakthrough in our ability to eventually measure and monitor emissions of this potent greenhouse gas from space.
Gluttonous star may hold clues to planet formation
Jun 15, 2016, at 02:46 pm
California, June 15 (IBNS): In 1936, the young star FU Orionis began gobbling material from its surrounding disk of gas and dust with a sudden voraciousness.
NASA Mars Rover descends Plateau, turns toward Mountain
Jun 14, 2016, at 02:59 pm
Washington, June 14 (IBNS) NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has analyzed its 12th drilled sample of Mars. This sample came from mudstone bedrock, which the rover resumed climbing in late May after six months studying other features.
New planet is largest discovered that orbits two Suns
Jun 14, 2016, at 02:51 pm
Washington, June 14 (IBNS) If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you’ll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system. It’s too faint to see with the naked eye, but a team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, used NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647b.
CERN announces winners of its 2016 beamline for schools competition
Jun 14, 2016, at 12:42 am
Geneva, June13 (IBNS): CERN on Monday announced the winners of its 2016 Beamline for Schools competition.
Nearly 150 million year old Dinosaur footprints discovered in Rajasthan
Jun 13, 2016, at 08:12 pm
Jaisalmer, Jun 13 (IBNS): Indian geologists have discovered footprints of the Eubrontes Gleneronsensis Theropod dinosaur in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, according to media reports.
Hubble uncovers a mysterious Hermit
Jun 11, 2016, at 02:50 pm
Washington, June 11 (IBNS): The drizzle of stars scattered across this image forms a galaxy known as UGC 4879. UGC 4879 is an irregular dwarf galaxy — as the name suggests, galaxies of this type are a little smaller and messier than their cosmic cousins, lacking the majestic swirl of a spiral or the coherence of an elliptical.
The jagged shores of Pluto’s highlands
Jun 10, 2016, at 02:37 pm
Washington, June 10 (IBNS) This enhanced color view from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on the southeastern portion of Pluto’s great ice plains, where at lower right the plains border rugged, dark highlands informally named Krun Macula. (Krun is the lord of the underworld in the Mandaean religion, and a ‘macula’ is a dark feature on a planetary surface).
Asteroseismologists listen to the relics of the Milky Way: Study
Jun 10, 2016, at 05:30 am
Birmingham, Jun 9 (IBNS): Astrophysicists from the University of Birmingham have captured the sounds of some of the oldest stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, according to research published in the Royal Astronomical Society journal Monthly Notices on Thursday.
US-based Westinghouse to build six nuclear reactors in India
Jun 08, 2016, at 07:01 pm
New Delhi, Jun 8 (IBNS): Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) and US-based Westinghouse have agreed to begin engineering and site design work immediately for six nuclear power plant reactors in India and conclude contractual arrangements by June 2017, the media reported.
Clouds and Sea Ice: What satellites show about Arctic climate change
Jun 04, 2016, at 02:43 pm
Washington, June 4 (IBNS) It is not news that Earth has been warming rapidly over the last 100 years as greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere.
NASA studies details of a greening Arctic
Jun 03, 2016, at 11:41 pm
Washington, June 2 (IBNS) The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a third of the land cover – much of it Arctic tundra – is looking more like landscapes found in warmer ecosystems.
Secrets revealed from Pluto's 'Twilight Zone'
Jun 03, 2016, at 02:54 pm
Washington, June 3 (IBNS) NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this stunning image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015.