The European Space Agency launched a new rocket for the first time this week, with the inaugural mission of the Vega-C. This medium-sized rocket is used for delivering payloads like satellites into o… [+2135 chars]
A newly-discovered plant, a recently-discovered wasp, and a developing fly larva have been found trapped in amber, in an exquisitely-preserved moment of prehistoric ecology. If the image of an inse… [+4045 chars]
A GIANT ice comet that came closest to Earth on Thursday can still be spotted. With a telescope, you can spot the K2 Comet receding in the sky in the constellation Ophiuchus. You can still spot the… [+1552 chars]
New Delhi: Scientists at NASA have discovered why some planets form clouds of silicates, the family of rock-forming minerals that make up over 90 per cent of earths crust. The team looked at observa… [+5774 chars]
ByCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJuly 16, 2022 New research from Caltech proposes a new solution to a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars. The key to solving a … [+7966 chars]
The recently commissioned James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is already offering some of the most stunning images of deep space. However, a micrometeorite strike that hit the JWST in May is more conce… [+2030 chars]
New Delhi: Scientists at NASA have discovered why some planets form clouds of silicates, the family of rock-forming minerals that make up over 90 per cent of earths crust. The team looked at observa… [+5774 chars]
After releasing stunning coloured images of thousands of galaxies in our universe, #NASA (@NASA) has now unveiled outstanding images of Jupiter and spectra of several asteroids taken by the James Web… [+606 chars]
Earth's moon is far from being a "been there, done that" world, notwithstanding a dozen Apollo short-stay visitors between 1969 and 1972. Today, our celestial neighbor could serve as homeland for a… [+13251 chars]
Tiny gelatinous blobs spin perfect pirouettes in the water their movement whipping up a force that attracts their neighbors. As enough of them gather together, this synchronized dance aligns them int… [+3863 chars]
The quantum vibrations in atoms hold a miniature world of information. If scientists can accurately measure these atomic oscillations, and how they evolve over time, they can hone the precision of at… [+6940 chars]
Cosmic rays that consist of highly energized electrically charged particles continuously bombard the earth’s atmosphere. These particles come from deep outer space, they have traveled billions of lig… [+3454 chars]