One of the great scientific instruments of all time, which has given the clearest pictures of galaxies forming in the very early universe, is looking straight into the eyes of the scientists for help. Its fate will be decided after the announcement...
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Ever thought of drinking your own urine, but you don't have any other choice if you want to survive in space.
The vision for space exploration which at times look little shaky won’t look the same with Environmental Control and Life Support...
Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek wind, Boreas, that often show up from September to October will soon splash across computer and television screens.
Well, aurora borealis the beauty of the northern lights, which looks like...
With the discovery of short-term variability in the flux of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays from the radio galaxy M 87 and preceding discoveries of extragalactic sources, H.E.S.S. is leading the way in understanding the processes involved in how...
Comets, the stuff of legend and myth has fascinated through ages and here it makes its presence again.
This time Comet Swan as it is called, still remains faint disappointing all the skywatchers. For some it might be fairly easy naked-eye comet...
It's not the dreamers, it's the doers that have created this new market.
Space tourism has turned from a fantasy, into an idea, and now an industry. It is because of people like Dr Simonyi that deserves the credit for this. Dr Simonyi who...
Astrophysicists with the help of some of the world's fastest computers managed to investigate whether there was some sort of gaseous mixing occurring in stars that destroyed Helium 3 and solved the apparent problem with the Big Bang.
The space...
First, the shutting down of CMG 3, that overheated and spilled a toxic irritant last month forcing the crew to don masks and gloves, which was, declared first emergency ever onboard the eight-year-old station. And now a faulty antenna apparently...
A chemical test used by the Mars Viking landers more than 30 years ago was not sensitive enough to detect signs of alien life, even if they existed. This clearly shows the drawback of the Mars Viking landers that gave false-negative result with...
NASA's pair of Sun-gazing spacecraft which is finally set to launch tomorrow evening after months of delays seems like an advanced mode of SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft.
The combined observations from these two STEREO (Solar...
One of the great scientific instruments of all time, which has given the clearest pictures of galaxies forming in the very early universe, is at the mercy of the scientists for its survival. After 16 years and thousands of hours observing the universe,...
It is again good news in the pretext of International Space Station (ISS) after the shutting down of CMG 3, which apparently had no impact to the safety or operation of the ISS.
A cargo rocket starting a three-day journey to the orbital outpost...
NASA’s space elevator global competition to build a space elevator in New México is fascinating but a little heart breaking too. Fascinating, because such a structure could eventually permit delivery of great quantities of cargo and people to orbit,...
Andromeda, our giant neighboring galaxy, was involved in a head on collision with the dwarf galaxy, M32, some 210 million years ago, the only witness of the flaming event were dinosaurs that roamed the Earth at that time.
Infrared images from NASA’s...
So far, only one craft has flown in space, sending test pilots to the final frontier at an expense of $25 million-plus to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize. Market right now doesn’t show the prospects that were expected by the investors in the space...
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