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Kennedy Space Center area road to be closed April 14-16 for TESS launch
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 rocket into high Earth elliptical orbit. The TESS mission would identify the planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, by using an array of telescopes to perform a two-year survey. TESS is designed to locate small planets with bright […]
New detailed Jupiter images sent by Juno
NASA’s Juno has kept documenting the things that it comes across in the outer space and has sent back the images to the space agency. We have already heard and seen with Juno, the auroras on the Jupiter and the storm and anti-cyclones. In accordance with the reports of this week, NASA has demonstrated a […]
Skyglow releases a video showing the real beauty of the dark sky in New York city
Have you ever imagined how a city would look without much light? The answer is there in a video recently released by Skyglow. Normally, it is quite difficult to detect stars in the dark sky in New York which is largely affected by light pollution. The light pollution has blocked the amazing view of celestial […]
Rocket Lab to launch its third Electron Rocket on April 20
Rocket Lab is now gearing up for its first fully-commercial launch, named as Its Business Time. Under the mission, the company will launch its Electron rocket on 19th April 2018 from its Launch Complex 1 on Mahia Peninsula located in New Zealand. This is the world’s only private launch facility. The rocket will carry the […]
The actual reason behind dinosaurs’ extinction was toxic plants: Study says
The new study conducted by the scientists at the University at Albany has given an interesting fact about the extinction of world’s heavyweight animal, dinosaurs. Previously it was believed that the massive asteroid is the reason behind the wiping out the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago. But the new study shows that dinosaurs were […]
Global Warming and Climate Change severely affecting the population of Coral Reefs
The abnormal changes in the climatic pattern have kept on affecting the entire globe, starting from the south polar to the north. However, the harshest impact of global warming is found in the aquatic communities of coral reef, suggested a new study. According to the research led by Ruben van Hooidonk of the University of […]
There are thousands of black holes at the center of Milky Way
In an astonishing discovery, scientists have found out thousands of black holes that are situated at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. According to the new study, the center of the Milky Way packs more than 10,000 relatively small black holes that were not noticed by the scientists previously. The researchers are hopeful that […]
Astronomers make precise distance measurement to oldest star cluster using Hubble
In a remarkable feat, researchers have found success in precisely measuring the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe using NASA’s iconic Hubble Space Telescope. As per the astronomers, the star cluster was born just after the Big Bang which gave birth to the universe. This new, refined distance yardstick provides an […]
A new ‘luxury space hotel’ will open in space in 2021
Space has always fascinated the people here on Earth, maybe it’s the scientists, the space agencies or the common people. Many private space agencies are targeting to commercialize space either making it a marketing hub or making it a tourist spot. Recently, a space start-up called Orion Span announced that they will launch a luxury […]