Pluto 'paints' its largest moon red
Sep 15, 2016, at 03:22 pm
California, Sept 15 (IBNS): In June 2015, when the cameras on NASA’s approaching New Horizons spacecraft first spotted the large reddish polar region on Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, mission scientists knew two things: they’d never seen anything like it elsewhere in our solar system, and they couldn’t wait to get the story behind it.
Cabinet approves extension of contract between India, International Seabed Authority
Sep 12, 2016, at 11:30 pm
New Delhi, Sept 12 (IBNS): The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday approved the extension of contract between Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India and the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for exploration of Polymetallic Nodules for a further period of 5 years (2017-22).
PM Modi congratulates ISRO scientists on successful testing of Scramjet Rocket Engine
Aug 29, 2016, at 05:00 am
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated ISRO scientists on the successful testing of Scramjet Rocket Engine.
President congratulates ISRO for the successful conduct of ATV
Aug 28, 2016, at 09:06 pm
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IBNS): President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday congratulated the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) for the successful conduct of Futuristic Rocket Test –Advanced Technology Vehicle (ATV).
Flight testing of Scramjet Engine Technology demonstrator successful: ISRO
Aug 28, 2016, at 04:47 pm
Sriharikota, Aug 28 (IBNS): The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System was successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota on Sunday.
NASA's Juno successfully completes Jupiter flyby
Aug 28, 2016, at 02:22 pm
California, Aug 28 (IBNS): NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter on Saturday.
Aug 28, 2016, at 01:51 pm
Chennai,Aug 28 (IBNS): Touching another landmark, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday conducted scramjet engine test at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh successfully, reports said.
NASA's Juno to soar closest to Jupiter this Saturday
Aug 27, 2016, at 01:41 pm
Washington, Aug 27 (IBNS): This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission.
Scientists discover new planet orbiting star Proxima Centauri
Aug 25, 2016, at 09:14 pm
New Delhi, Aug 25 (IBNS): Scientists have discovered an earth-sized planet orbiting a star closest to Earth's solar system, according to media reports on Thursday.
NASA establishes contact with STEREO Mission
Aug 24, 2016, at 03:30 am
California, Aug 23 (IBNS): On Aug. 21, 2016, contact was reestablished with one of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, after communications were lost on Oct. 1, 2014.
How did the 2015 Solar Eclipse affect temperatures, finds study
Aug 23, 2016, at 03:27 pm
London, Aug 23 (IBNS): In probably first ever study of its kind, satellites were used to monitor land surface 'skin' temperatures during a total solar eclipse,Britain's Met office has said.
Maple fire threatens Western edge of Yellowstone National Park
Aug 23, 2016, at 03:14 pm
California, Aug 23 (IBNS): The VIIRS instrument aboard the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite took this color-enhanced image of the Maple Fire in Wyoming, Aug 21, 2016.
Full-Circle Vista from NASA Mars Rover Curiosity shows 'Murray Buttes'
Aug 20, 2016, at 09:58 pm
California, Aug 20 (IBNS): Eroded mesas and buttes reminiscent of the U.S. Southwest shape part of the horizon in the latest 360-degree color panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
NASA prepares to launch first U.S. Asteroid sample return mission
Aug 18, 2016, at 05:05 pm
California, Aug 18 (IBNS): NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth.
Supernova ejected from the pages of history
Aug 18, 2016, at 04:51 pm
California, Aug 18 (IBNS): A new look at the debris from an exploded star in our galaxy has astronomers re-examining when the supernova actually happened.
Genome sequencing may help avert banana armageddon
Aug 18, 2016, at 05:11 am
London, Aug 17 (IBNS): Rsearchers at the University of California, Davis, and in the Netherlands have discovered how three fungal diseases have evolved into a lethal threat to the world’s bananas.
NASA successfully launches student experiments from Wallops
Aug 18, 2016, at 02:59 am
California, Aug 17 (IBNS): NASA on Wednesday said it successfully launched the RockSat-X education payload on a Terrier-Improved Malemute suborbital sounding rocket at 7:33:30 a.m. EDT Aug. 17 from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
'Clocks' in tree-rings that could reset chronologies across the ancient world, says study
Aug 18, 2016, at 02:39 am
London, Aug 17 (IBNS): Oxford University researchers say that trees which grew during intense radiation bursts in the past have 'time-markers' in their tree-rings that could help archaeologists date events from thousands of years ago.
NASA Space Robotics Challenge prepares robots for journey to Mars
Aug 18, 2016, at 02:09 am
California, Aug 17 (IBNS): NASA, in partnership with Space Center Houston, the Official Visitor Center of NASA Johnson Space Center, and NineSigma, a global innovation consultant organization, has opened registration for a new competition -- the Space Robotics Challenge.
New computer programme replicates handwriting
Aug 18, 2016, at 01:56 am
New York, Aug 17 (IBNS): In a world increasingly dominated by the QWERTY keyboard, UCL computer scientists have developed software which may spark the comeback of the handwritten word by analysing the handwriting of any individual and accurately replicating it.
Plenty of light during daytime reduces the effect of blue light screens on night sleep, says study
Aug 11, 2016, at 11:38 pm
London, Aug 11 (IBNS): The use of smartphones and tablet computers during evening hours has previously been associated with sleep disturbances in humans.
The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles
Aug 10, 2016, at 10:37 pm
Geneva, Aug 10 (IBNS): In a paper published by the journal JHEP today, the MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
Chicago sees floods of LHC data and new results at the ICHEP 2016 conference
Aug 06, 2016, at 04:38 am
Geneva/Chicago, Aug 5 (IBNS): Particle physicists are showcasing a wealth of brand new results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN at the 'ICHEP 2016'1 conference in Chicago.
Study maps hidden water pollution in U.S. coastal areas
Aug 05, 2016, at 03:05 pm
California, Aug 5 (IBNS): Coastal waters and near-shore groundwater supplies along more than a fifth of coastlines in the continental United States are vulnerable to contamination from previously hidden underground transfers of water between the oceans and land, finds a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University, Columbus, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
Hubble gazes at long-dead star
Jul 30, 2016, at 12:12 am
Washington, July 29 (IBNS): This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead star.
Astronomers gain new insight into magnetic field of Sun and its kin
Jul 28, 2016, at 09:19 pm
California, July 28 (IBNS): Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic field in the Sun and stars like it are generated.
Jupiter’s great red spot likely a massive heat source
Jul 28, 2016, at 02:51 pm
California, July 28 (IBNS) New NASA-funded research suggests that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot may be the mysterious heat source behind Jupiter’s surprisingly high upper atmospheric temperatures.
The case of the missing ceres craters
Jul 27, 2016, at 02:36 pm
Washington, July 27 (IBNS): Ceres is covered in countless small, young craters, but none are larger than 175 miles (280 kilometers) in diameter. To scientists, this is a huge mystery, given that the dwarf planet must have been hit by numerous large asteroids during its 4.5 billion-year lifetime. Where did all the large craters go?
Astronomers discover dizzying spin of the Milky Way Galaxy’s “Halo"
Jul 26, 2016, at 10:29 pm
Washington, July 26 (IBNS) Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the same direction and at comparable speed as the galaxy's disk, which contains our stars, planets, gas, and dust.
NASA to map the surface of an Asteroid
Jul 26, 2016, at 04:11 am
Washington, July 25 (IBNS): OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface maNASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid