SCIENCE & RESEARCH

NASA rover attempting most difficult Martian touchdown yet

‘NASA’s spacecraft completes closest flyover of asteroid sample site’

7:41 pm January 23, 2020

Washington: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully executed a 620-metre flyover of Nightingale, a site located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu’s northern hemisphere, the US space agency said. According to scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in the US, the spacecraft left its 1.2-kilometre safe home orbit and flew an almost 11-hour transit […]

ISRO to send lady robot ‘Vyomamitra’ in unmanned Gaganyaan

7:51 pm January 22, 2020

Bengaluru: Even before orbiting astronauts on India’s first manned mission to the space in December 2021, the Indian Space Research Organisation will send ‘Vyomamitra’, a ‘lady robot’, in unmanned Gaganyaan spacecraft. The robot was the centre of attraction at the inaugural session of the “Human Spaceflight and Exploration – Present Challenges and Future Trends” here […]

PM Modi has natural temper for science: Jitendra Singh

12:05 am January 22, 2020

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a natural temper for science and under his leadership the government has taken various initiatives for the development of science and technology, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Inaugurating India’s first global Mega Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan Samagam’ at the National Science Centre here, Singh said three-tier teams […]

2.229 billion years: Scientists date world’s oldest meteor crater

11:53 pm January 21, 2020

Tokyo: A crater in western Australia was formed by a meteor strike more than 2.2 billion years ago and is the world’s oldest known impact site, new research published Wednesday shows. The study marks the first time that the Yarrabubba crater has been precisely dated, at 2.229 billion years old, and means it is 200 […]

SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test

11:45 pm January 19, 2020

Cape Canaveral (US): SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in as little as two months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard for the wild ride in the skies above Cape Canaveral, just two mannequins. A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off as normal, […]