#1: Sound of star's vibration reveals details of its core
Newscientist has reported that the astronomers this week have made the most detailed observation yet of the subtle vibrations of a Sun-like star. And this reveals details of the star's...
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Asteroids have been showering the Earth with damages for long. So, NASA thought of searching for these Earth-threatening celestial bodies as small as 140 meters. It has been approved by the US Congress and is awaiting President George W Bush's...
Good news for the sky gazers. Built you personal planetarium with this cool portable telescope. It’s portable in the sense that it a handheld device that you can be held in your hand to instantly identify and/or locates any celestial object visible...
What is responsible for the sulphate sediments detected on Mars by NASA's Opportunity rover? Unlike Earth it’s not standing water. Volcanism or meteorite impacts could be responsible for the sedimentation. Two separate studies have led to this...
In an effort to find a clue to this, an international team of astronomers has looked at something very big, a distant galaxy. It is to study the behavior of things very small, like atoms and molecules. To gain vital clues about the fundamental nature...
Canada creates record this year – for recovering four new meteorites from outer space in the Country. These findings also confirm the belief of a University of Calgary scientist that an extraordinary concentration of meteorites left behind after the...
DNA consists of organic molecules and proteins. Did you ever think from where the basic compounds necessary to build these molecules come from? If you didn’t, never mind. Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory have found them within the inner regions...
A new weather model on Mars� environment reveals that the red planet's ice caps are bombarded by violent storms of dry ice. The phenomenon occurred during the polar nights and it defied the long agreed on fact that the sunless winter months on...
To give much more thrust than today’s electric propulsion techniques, ESA has confirmed the principle of a new space thruster. But this concept is inspired purely by nature and its phenomenon. The northern and southern aurorae, the glows in the sky...
Once a demand for equality, now have rallied women to their emancipation. Emancipation that not only give ladies the right to vote, obtain education etc. but also to rights beyond boundaries. The book Women in Space by David Shayler and Ian Moule...
Britain's Beagle 2 mission to Mars went missing on December 19 2003. It could not be tracked since then. But, the scientist behind the failed space mission believes the missing space probe may have been found. Latest NASA images of the Martian...
The two-ton INSAT-4A satellite is in the final phases of the launch sequence. The Press Trust of India reported this last Sunday. The bird will lift off aboard an Ariane-5 rocket this Thursday.
And once the mission is successful, the satellite will...
The NASA scientists are busy readying their spaceship to be launched on Pluto by the summer of 2015. It is scheduled to launch on Jan. 17. This mission will be the first space expedition aimed specifically at a celestial body beyond Neptune. Pluto is...
The solar system's formation needs a rethinking. This is felt with the discovery of ‘Buffy,' an object on the Kuiper Belt's fringe that extends far beyond Neptune. It is a frigid mini-planet 300 to 600 miles across. The object seems to be throwing...
It was found emitting from the Milky Way. Considered to be the best probe of cosmic rays outside the solar neighborhood, very high energy gamma rays are discovered at the Milky Way’s equator. This discovery marks the highest energies ever detected...
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