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Minor Glitch in New Horizons Spacecraft Tuned Up and Now Operating Healthily: NASA
After the troubleshoot of the minor technical glitch, New Horizons – the first space probe dedicated to the exploration mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is now healthy and moving smoothly heading for its next mission, confirmed NASA in an official statement on Thursday. After spending more than 24 hours in a shielding “safe […]
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Marks Discovery of New White Dwarf Planet with “Components of Life”
Scientists, with the help of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have stumbled upon a new White Dwarf Planet, located nearly 200 light years from the Earth. Found in the constellation Bootes, the White Dwarf Planet’s atmosphere is rich in “Ingredients of Life.” The discovery of the new exoplanet is expected to hold clues to extraterrestrial life […]
China to Set out First Remote-Sensing Night-Light-Observational Satellite This Year
China is all-set to mark a new record by launching country’s first-ever remote-sensing satellite, dedicated to detecting ground-based lighted structures during night time. Dubbed as “Luojia-1A”, the mini-satellite is capable of identifying large bright formations on the ground in the evening time. It weighs only 10 KG and is equipped with high-resolution sensors. According to […]
NASA to Pierce into Europa’s Icy Crust for Chasing Submerged Alien Life by 2020
Since early 2016, a research team employed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) called Science Definition Team (SDT) has been researching on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, and after over one year, on 7th February 2017, the team presented their first report on the one-year-long experimental effort. The study was aimed at determining the scientific […]
Don’t Just Get Enlivened about Proxima B’s Habitable Zone; It Is Obstructive to Life, NASA Confirms
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has advised space enthusiasts not to be so excited regarding the habitable zone of the newly discovered Earth-sized planet “Proxima b’ because the planet is less likely supportive of life. NASA, in its recently published statement, has confirmed that, despite having an inhabitable zone, Proxima b isn’t favorable […]
NASA OSIRIS-REx Set Out Space-Hunt for Earth-Trojan Asteroid
A NASA-owned and operated spacecraft has started its space-hunt for a mysterious type of close-to-Earth celestial object called Earth-Trojan asteroids on Thursday, 9th February 2017. Dubbed as OSIRIS-Rex, the spacecraft will spend almost two weeks in search of these mystifying tiny celestial bodies. To recall, currently, OSIRIS-Rex is on 2-years outbound voyage to the asteroid […]
NASA to Send Submerged Craft to Jupiter’s Frozen Moon ‘EUROPA’ For Hunting Extraterrestrial Life
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is planning to send an unmanned robotic spacecraft to Jupiter’s frozen moon “Europa” for hunting alien life. According to the official report of the US-based space agency NASA, Europa – the ice-covered moon of Jupiter might be looking like completely barren and unreceptive to life formation, in fact, […]
Scientists with Chandra X-Ray Observatory Corroborate World’s Longest and Hungriest Black Hole Cluster
Scientists, with the help of advanced technology and satellites, are moving closer to solve the mystery of Black Holes, which have been a matter of concern for astronomers since decades. In such a breakthrough, scientists have verified world’s largest Black Hole clusters, located in a small galaxy, some 1.8 billion light-years away from the earth. […]
Japan’s Experimental Space Junk Collector Falls Flat Due To Poor Programming
An experimental space probe, which was intended for collecting space junks, has failed in carrying out its assigned tasks accurately, reported a state-run news agency. As per the announcement made by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Monday, the tentative mission for cleaning ‘space junk’ or debris from the lower orbit of the earth has […]