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NASA shortlists Telangana students for Human exploration Rover challenge
A team of five students from Telangana has been selected for NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The students from SR Engineering College, Warangal will take participation in the fifth annual challenge holding at Huntsville, Alabama, US on April 12-14, 2018. Students are taking part from around 23 countries to face the challenge. They will be competing to create […]
Asteroid 2012 TC4 could pass alarmingly close to the Moon and might just smash with it
As we described in the previous post, the 2012 TC4 is on a course to pass very close to our planet enabling the scientists to study it more appropriately. A new tracker of the asteroid which is set to move past Earth on October 12 shows us just how close it could come to a […]
The mystery behind the missing half of Universe’s Normal Matter now solved
The mysterious missing links between galaxies has finally been found, and this is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter found in our universe. The unaccounted protons, neutrons, and electrons which were observed by stars, galaxies and other bright objects in space account for the rest half of the Normal matter. […]
Once upon a time our moon had an atmosphere made of Volcano smoke: Study suggests
That big bright rock that we look at every night from our window has always been perceived as a world of desolation and utter grandeur which is only bothered now and then with an impact from a meteorite or any rare terrestrial spacecraft landing from the vicinity of Earth. A Recent study into the history […]
New York to London in less than an hour with Elon Musk’s latest rocket
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has been developing a huge spacecraft designed to help colonize Mars, but it can also be used much closer to home. At a space conference in Australia held on September 29, Musk revealed that the company is looking forward to applying the technology to move people from one part of the […]
SpaceX Falcon 9 to attempt to launch two rockets in three days
SpaceX is all set to launch two rockets back to back with the first on Monday (9th October) and the second two days later on Wednesday (11th October)as reported by Ars Technica. As of now the space company has already made 13 successful launches this year and is looking forward to adding more to its […]
Asteroid with 30,000 miles per hour speed to navigate close to Earth on October 12
An asteroid with a rate of 30,000 miles per hour is hurling through space towards the direction of Earth at 30,000 miles per hour, but there is nothing to worry as it won’t be affecting Earth. It would just pass through a very close proximity of our planet. The asteroid has been estimated to be […]
Evidence proves Darwin was right: Life started on Earth after meteorite fell on warm pond
A meteor falling into a warm little pond marked the start of life on earth. Somewhere between 3.7 and 4.5 billion years ago, the said meteorites splashed down and leached essential elements into warm ponds. According to scientists at McMaster University and the Max Planck Institute in Germany, their calculations suggest that wet and dry […]
New York to London in just 29 minutes: Now possible with Elon Musk’s next spaceship
The SpaceX CEO has been aiming for a colony on Mars for years. The prime reason behind the birth of SpaceX in 2002 was Mars colonization. Elon Musk has been driven by this goal and propagating new ideas to one day make a well thriving human colony on the Martian surface. During a speech in […]