New York: Three out of five Americans believe that the James Webb telescope is a somewhat or very good investment, according to a new YouGov poll. The $10 billion Webb telescope, is an international… [+2463 chars]
The astronomical community is celebrating International Moon Day on July 20 to commemorate the anniversary of NASA's Apollo 11 mission which landed the first humans on the Moon. On this day in 1969, … [+3279 chars]
On March 17, 2020, ESA suspended an ExoMars mission to send a rover to the red planet in collaboration with the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. The suspension was a reaction to Russian aggression in… [+2920 chars]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is investigating the use of a space-based solar shield to lessen incoming radiation on the surface of the Earth and thwart climate change. The dilemma of ho… [+3616 chars]
Sun has been in a pretty active state for the last few months. The star has been erupting frequently and unleashing solar storms towards Earth. Its most recently-caused solar storm has hit the Earth … [+1745 chars]
Figure 1:The mathematical condition called thermomajorization indicates that there exists a thermal process that can change the state of the system from p to q. But the condition doesn’t indicate wha… [+9793 chars]
Published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the team of researchers found that diamonds formed during a high-energy shock wave from an asteroid collision around 50,000 years a… [+3264 chars]
Does the astonishing biodiversity in the Philippines result in part from rising and falling seas during the ice ages? Scientists have long thought the unique geography of the Philippinescoupled with… [+8212 chars]
Astronomers at MIT and other universities in Canada and USA have detected a strange and persistent radio signal from a distant galaxy the most regular and long-lasting signal found in the night sky t… [+1896 chars]
Some of the brightest, most energetic objects in the Universe are the mystery source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, new research has confirmed. A comprehensive analysis has pretty conclusively lin… [+5124 chars]
Over several decades, neuroscientists have created a well-defined map of the brains language network, or the regions of the brain that are specialized for processing language. Found primarily in the … [+6579 chars]
As part of its increasing space research programme, Chinas planned expedition to Venus is getting more information. According to information from a July 9 conference to discuss the mission, the prop… [+3190 chars]
