New crew members, including NASA Biologist, launch to space station

Jul 07, 2016, at 02:03 pm

California, July 7 (IBNS) Three crew members representing the United States, Russia and Japan are on their way to the International Space Station after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:36 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 6 (7:36 a.m. Baikonur time, July 7).

Google doodle gets a Juno makeover

Jul 05, 2016, at 04:55 pm

Mountain View, July 5 (IBNS): Google on Tuesday decorated its homepage with a doodle dedicated to Juno, the spacecraft that successfully entered Jupiter's orbit.

Juno enters orbit around Jupiter

Jul 05, 2016, at 03:28 pm

California, July 5 (IBNS) NASA’s Juno mission has completed its main engine burn and entered orbit around Jupiter. Watch the live NASA news briefing at 1 a.m. EDT for more information.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft getting close to Jupiter

Jul 03, 2016, at 04:03 am

Washington, July 2 (IBNS) NASA's Juno mission, launched nearly five years ago, will soon reach its final destination: the most massive planet in our solar system, Jupiter. On the evening of July 4, at roughly 9 p.m. PDT (12 a.m. EDT, July 5), the spacecraft will complete a burn of its main engine, placing it in orbit around the king of planets.

MRS Air Missile launch: President congratulates DRDO

Jul 01, 2016, at 11:24 pm

New Delhi, July 1 (IBNS) President Pranab Mukherjee congratulated DRDO on the successful test-firing of the Medium Range Surface to Air Missile.

NASA's Juno Spacecraft enters Jupiter's magnetic field

Jul 01, 2016, at 03:32 pm

Washington, July 1 (IBNS) NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet's magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what's going on inside Jupiter.

NASA Rover's sand-dune studies yield surprise

Jul 01, 2016, at 02:55 pm

Washington, July 1 (IBNS) Some of the wind-sculpted sand ripples on Mars are a type not seen on Earth, and their relationship to the thin Martian atmosphere today provides new clues about the atmosphere's history.

Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere

Jul 01, 2016, at 02:36 pm

Washington, July 1 (IBNS)Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. This observation program is supported by measurements made by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently on its way to Jupiter.

NASA awards contract to increase water recovery on Space Station

Jun 29, 2016, at 09:08 pm

Washington, June 29 (IBNS) NASA has selected Paragon Space Development Corporation, a small business headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, to develop a system that will increase the rate of water recovery from the urine of astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

NASA maps California drought effects on Sierra Trees

Jun 29, 2016, at 03:35 am

California, June 28 (IBNS) A new map created with measurements from an airborne instrument developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, reveals the devastating effect of California’s ongoing drought on Sierra Nevada conifer forests.

NASA's IMERG measures deadly West Virginia flooding rainfall

Jun 28, 2016, at 03:43 pm

California, June 28(Just Earth News): Since June 23, 2016 over two dozen people have been reported killed and hundreds of homes have been destroyed by flooding in West Virginia. Using satellite data, NASA calculated the heavy rainfall that occurred over the state.

NASA Rover findings point to a more Earth-like Martian past

Jun 28, 2016, at 04:21 am

Washington, June 27 (IBNS) Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

Clandestine Black Hole may represent new population

Jun 28, 2016, at 04:12 am

Washington, June 27 (IBNS) Astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low-mass star and a black hole.

Seeds of supermassive black holes could be revealed by gravitational waves: Study

Jun 28, 2016, at 04:05 am

London,June 27 (IBNS) Gravitational waves captured by space-based detectors could help identify the origins of supermassive black holes, according to new computer simulations of the Universe.

NASA weighs use of Rover to image potential Mars water sites

Jun 25, 2016, at 02:55 pm

California, June 25 (IBNS) Ever since it was announced that there may be evidence of liquid water on present-day Mars, NASA scientists have wondered how best to further investigate these long, seasonally changing dark streaks in the hope of finding evidence of life – past or present – on the Red Planet.

MoU singed between RD Ministry & ISRO for geo-tagging assets

Jun 25, 2016, at 03:25 am

New Delhi, June 24 (IBNS) A Memorandum of Understanding was signed here between the Rural Development Ministry and ISRO, Department of Space for geo-tagging the assets created under MGNREGA in each gram panchayat.

Volcanoes get quite before they erupt

Jun 25, 2016, at 02:35 am

Washington, D.C, June 24 (IBNS) When dormant volcanoes are about to erupt, they show some predictive characteristics—seismic activity beneath the volcano starts to increase, gas escapes through the vent, or the surrounding ground starts to deform.

Hubble sees new dark spot on Neptune

Jun 25, 2016, at 12:58 am

California, June 24 (IBNS) New images obtained on May 16, 2016, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm the presence of a dark vortex in the atmosphere of Neptune.

ISRO organises 'Make in India' Conference

Jun 24, 2016, at 02:29 am

Bengaluru, June 23 (IBNS): The 'Make in India' Conference on Enabling Spacecraft Systems Realisation through Industries (ESSRI - 2016) was organised on Thursday at ISRO Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.

Pervasive ice retreat in West Antarctica

Jun 23, 2016, at 02:07 pm

California, June 23 (IBNS) Along the Bellingshausen Sea coast of West Antarctica, ice has been retreating inland being lost to the sea.

X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of 'killer' Black Hole

Jun 23, 2016, at 01:45 pm

California, June 23 (IBNS): Some 3.9 billion years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, the intense tidal pull of a monster black hole shredded a star that passed too close. When X-rays produced in this event first reached Earth on March 28, 2011, they were detected by NASA's Swift satellite, which notified astronomers around the world. Within days, scientists concluded that the outburst, now known as Swift J1644+57, represented both the tidal disruption of a star and the sudden flare-up of a previously inactive black hole.

Satellites launch: Sonia Gandhi congratulates ISRO scientists

Jun 22, 2016, at 09:35 pm

New Delhi, June 22 (IBNS): Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday congratulated scientists at ISRO afte the organization successfully launched 20 Satellites in a single flight from its flagship rocket PSLV-C34.

ISRO sets new milestone : Launches record 20 satellites in one go

Jun 22, 2016, at 07:53 pm

Shriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, June 22 (IBNS) : Setting a new milestone, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday successfully launched 20 Satellites in a single flight from its flagship rocket PSLV-C34.

PSLV-C34 successfully launches 20 satellites in a single flight

Jun 22, 2016, at 07:02 pm

Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, June 22 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C34), on its 36th flight, successfully launched the 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 19 co-passenger satellites, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday.

ISRO places in orbit record 20 Satellites, PM lauds scientists

Jun 22, 2016, at 05:13 pm

Sriharikot, Andhra Pradesh, June 22 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday placed in orbit a record 20 satellites from its flagship rocket PSLV in a 26-minute flight from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.

Astronomers find the first 'Wind Nebula' around a Magnetar

Jun 22, 2016, at 03:18 pm

Washington, June 22 (IBNS): Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time.

NASA's K2 finds newborn exoplanet around young star

Jun 21, 2016, at 05:39 am

Washington, June 20 (IBNS) Astronomers have discovered the youngest fully formed exoplanet ever detected. The discovery was made using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, as well as the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Exoplanets are planets that orbit stars beyond our sun.

Hubble sweeps scattered stars in Sagittarius

Jun 18, 2016, at 09:45 pm

California, June 18 (IBNS) This colorful and star-studded view of the Milky Way galaxy was captured when the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope pointed its cameras towards the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). Blue stars can be seen scattered across the frame, set against a distant backdrop of red-hued cosmic companions. This blue litter most likely formed at the same time from the same collapsing molecular cloud.

Gravitational waves observed from another cosmic collision of a pair of black holes

Jun 16, 2016, at 11:32 pm

London, June 16 (IBNS) On 26 December 2015 at 03:38:53 GMT, the twin LIGO instruments observed a binary black hole coalescence, named GW151226.

Rover opportunity wrapping up study of Martian Valley

Jun 16, 2016, at 03:19 pm

California, June 16 (IBNS) "Marathon Valley," slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover may soon move on.