According to NASA, its latest Mars rover has started its business after testing a bristling array of instruments on its robotic arm. The rover is expected to probing rocks and dust for evidence of past life. Searching for signs of life on Mars, Perseverance is expected to send various informations...
A powerful solar storm is approaching the Earth at a speed of 1.6 million kilometers. It will hit the Earth either on Sunday or Monday. The storm that originated from the Sun’s atmosphere can have a significant impact on a region of space dominated by Earth’s magnetic field, spaceweather.com says....
According to a recent study report, researchers have found a rare SuperLuminous Supernova (SLSNe). The study led by Amit Kumar, a PhD student working under Dr SB Pandey, has spotted the extremely bright, hydrogen deficient, fast-evolving supernova shining with the energy borrowed from an exotic type of neutron star with...
Researchers have discovered 4 earth-mass homeless planets near the center of our galaxy. In the discovery, which has been published in ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’, the researchers have said that the free-floating planets are of similar mass to Earth and do not have a host star. Scientists...
Taking on the challenges of needs for rapid data analysis, astronomers are going to apply machine learning and AIs to build new tools to search for the next big breakthroughs. They say that AI helps astronomers learn about universe. According to reports, artificial intelligence AI helps astronomers learn about the...
On Thursday, the Strawberry full Moon appeared as the last supermoon of the spring season. It was also the first Full Moon of the summer as the summer season began in the northern hemisphere on 21 June. The day also marked the longest day of the year. One of the...
NASA is planning to launch the James Webb Space Telescope nearly at the end of this year. A team of NASA scientists will train the Telescope on six of the most distant and luminous quasars. With the help of the telescope, they will study the properties of these quasars and...
On 24 June, the Strawberry Moon will appear in the night sky. The first full Moon of summer will be its biggest and brightest. According to scientists, the Strawberry Moon marks the last full moon of the spring season and the first of the summer season. The summer season in...
A giant blinking star is found near the center of our Milky way galaxy. The news about the discovery is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. According to the news, an international team of astronomers has spotted the giant ‘blinking’ star more than 25 thousand light years...
NASA is to collaborate on The European Space Agency ESA’s science mission. ESA announced EnVision as its newest medium-class science mission on 10 June, 2021. ESA says EnVision will make detailed observations of Venus to understand its history and especially understand the connections between the atmosphere and geologic processes. NASA...
A study published online in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has mentioned that two exoplanets are found by planet hunters. Including Cesar Rubio, there are listed more than a dozen other citizen scientists as co-authors of the study. Citizen science is a way for members of the public...
This year’s first solar eclipse, annular solar eclipse 2021, is going to occur on Thursday. Solar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves between the Sun and the Earth and blocks the Sun’s light from reaching the Earth. The Thursday’s eclipse is an annular one. In an annular eclipse, the Sun...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft is going to make a close approach on Monday to the Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. According to NASA, the flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the solar system’s largest natural satellite since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach back on 20...
As a part of the NASA’s Discovery Program, the US Space Agency has declared its plan of sending two missions to study about Venus,our closest planetary neighbour. The missions aim to understand how Venus came to become an inhabitable world when its many characteristics are similar to earth. Scientists say Venus...
Image Credit: JPL/NASA Mars Curiosity rover has sent pictures of shining Martian clouds viewed in the Martian sky. NASA says the science team is studying the clouds. They arrived earlier and formed higher than expected, to learn more about the Red Planet. According to NASA, cloudy days are rare in...