India’s Team Indus Ties Up with Japan’s Hakuto for Next Lunar Mission
A Bengaluru-based space startup company – TeamIndus – the only Indian team to represent the country in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition, on Wednesday publicized the report of its partnership with a Japanese space company for the upcoming Lunar mission. In the announcement of the commercial agreement, Team Indus mentioned about its collaboration with Hakuto, […]
Ecological honor to Barak Obama: New Coral-Reef Fish Species is named as “Tosanoides Obama”
A new species of fish discovered from Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, located at the United States of America is named in the honor of former president of USA, Mr. Barak Obama. When scientists first discovered this new fish creature, they were shocked to find a distinctive and multicolored mark near the tail of the fish. […]
Japanese Spacecraft ERG may discover new approaches to Van Allen Radiation Belts
The Japanese spaceship, called Exploration of Energization and Radiation in Geospace Satellite, or ERG successfully took off from Uchinoura Space Center in southern Japan, on 20th December; at 6 am EST (1100 GMT; 8 p.m. local Japan time). The spacecraft is designed to provide the astronomers better understanding about the radiation atmosphere of near-Earth. Yesterday, […]
Ancient footprints of our ancestors suggest they were extremely tall
Ancient human beings are likely to have a royal figure with at least 5.5-feet tall, 45kg weight, and a harem – scientists have discovered during a research. This is the figure what our ancestors used to have before some 3.7 million years ago. The question – “how our ancestors look like” is still subjective to […]
Cassini image demonstrating an illusion of Mimas crashing into Saturn’s Rings
Cassini, after completing its first ring-grazing event earlier a week, is moving towards a graceful climax in 2017 and is currently taking closest flyby approach to the rings of Saturn. However, before putting an end to its highly-successful Saturn Mission, the NASA-powered spaceship has beamed back some intriguing images to the earth, which are demonstrating […]
NASA to develop ‘Restore-L’ to grasp, renovate and refill fellow robots
NASA, in order to enhance its efficiency in space exploration missions, is working on a new robot repairman who will be employed for repairing, grasping and refilling the associate robots. NASA, while sending its multi-million dollar unmanned robots to space often faced malfunctions and glitches in its technical and software programs. Because of such small […]
India to House Fifth LIGO Centre to study Gravitational Waves
India is soon going to be the fifth privileged country to house Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Centre for studying Gravitational waves. The establishment of Observatory & Research Centre in India will be world’s fifth most state-of-the-art center for researching more on gravitational rays. As announced by the scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology’s […]
NASA’s Curiosity detects ‘Rock-Ingredient Stew’ on Mars, Suggests possibility of Life
NASA’s Curiosity Rover which is intended to explore Mars and its atmosphere recently found ‘Rock-Ingredient Stew’ on the Martian surface which has triggered the possibility of Life on barren Mars. The robotic rover Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater on Mars since 2011 with the aim to find some clues about the existence of life […]