IceBridge begins eighth year of Arctic flights
Apr 21, 2016, at 09:34 pm
California, Apr 21 (IBNS) Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne survey of polar ice, completed its first Greenland research flight of 2016 on April 19, kicking off its eighth spring Arctic campaign. This year’s science flights over Arctic sea and land ice will continue until May 21.
New Ceres images show bright craters
Apr 20, 2016, at 11:16 pm
California, Apr 20 (IBNS) Craters with bright material on dwarf planet Ceres shine in new images from NASA's Dawn mission.
NASA works to improve solar electric propulsion for deep space exploration
Apr 20, 2016, at 03:21 pm
California, Apr 20 (IBNS) NASA has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc. of Redmond, Washington, to design and develop an advanced electric propulsion system that will significantly advance the nation's commercial space capabilities, and enable deep space exploration missions, including the robotic portion of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and its Journey to Mars.
NASA's Fermi Telescope poised to pin down gravitational wave sources
Apr 19, 2016, at 04:55 am
California, Apr 18 (IBNS) On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was captured by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facilities in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana.
A space spider watches over young stars
Apr 15, 2016, at 03:32 pm
California, Apr 15 (IBNS) A nebula known as "the Spider" glows fluorescent green in an infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS).
Saturn Spacecraft samples Interstellar Dust
Apr 15, 2016, at 03:27 pm
California, Apr 15 (IBNS) NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is published this week in the journal Science.
NASA Supercomputer simulations help improve aircraft propulsion design
Apr 13, 2016, at 02:59 pm
California, Apr 13 (IBNS) NASA and aviation industry on Wednesday said it partnered and collaborating on the development of green aviation technologies.
-1460466388.jpg "CSIR developed earthquake warning system alerted Delhi Metro about the recent earthquake in real time")
Apr 13, 2016, at 12:06 am
New Delhi, Apr 12 (IBNS) CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIR-CSIO), Chandigarh developed an Earthquake Warning System (EqWS).
NASA begins testing of revolutionary e-sail technology
Apr 12, 2016, at 03:13 pm
California, Apr 12 (IBNS) Testing has started at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on a concept for a potentially revolutionary propulsion system that could send spacecraft to the edge of our solar system, the heliopause, faster than ever before.
NASA expands economic research to advance space development
Apr 12, 2016, at 03:09 pm
California, Apr 12 (IBNS) The global space economy is growing, generating more than $300 billion a year in space-related activities, and attracting new, diverse participants and investors.
Hot super-Earths stripped by host stars: 'Cooked' planets shrink due to radiation
Apr 12, 2016, at 04:47 am
Kolkata, Apr 11 (IBNS) Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications on Monday.
NASA invests in two-dimensional spacecraft, reprogrammable microorganisms
Apr 09, 2016, at 02:52 pm
California, Apr 9 (IBNS) NASA has selected 13 proposals through NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that invests in transformative architectures through the development of pioneering technologies.
NASA Cargo headed to space station includes habitat prototype, medical research
Apr 09, 2016, at 02:40 pm
Washington, Apr 9 (IBNS) Tucked in the trunk of the latest commercial cargo spacecraft to head for the International Space Station is an expandable structure that has the potential to revolutionize work and life on the space station.
Apr 08, 2016, at 02:46 pm
Washington, Apr 8 (IBNS) Sprawling across Pluto’s icy landscape is an unusual geological feature that resembles a giant spider.
Behemoth Black Hole found in an unlikely place
Apr 08, 2016, at 01:00 am
California, Apr 7 (IBNS) Astronomers have uncovered a near-record breaking super massive black hole, weighing 17 billion suns, in an unlikely place: in the center of a galaxy in a sparsely populated area of the universe.
NASA progresses towards SpaceX resupply mission to Space Station
Apr 06, 2016, at 03:08 pm
California, Apr 5 (IBNS): NASA provider SpaceX is scheduled to launch its eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station on Friday, April 8. NASA Television coverage of the launch begins at 3:30 p.m. EDT.
John Grunsfeld announces retirement from NASA
Apr 06, 2016, at 02:57 pm
California, Apr 6 (IBNS) John Grunsfeld will retire from NASA Apr 30, capping nearly four decades of science and exploration with the agency.
NASA's IMERG measures flooding rainfall in Pakistan
Apr 06, 2016, at 02:00 am
California, Apr 5 (IBNS) NASA on Tuesday said it used satellite data and added up heavy rainfall that has been occurring in northwestern Pakistan that caused flooding that killed more than 50 people.
NASA examines El Niño's impact on Ocean’s food source
Apr 05, 2016, at 02:56 pm
California, Apr 5 (IBNS) El Niño years can have a big impact on the littlest plants in the ocean, and NASA scientists are studying the relationship between the two.
Moon thought to play a major role in maintaining Earth's magnetic field: Study
Apr 04, 2016, at 10:14 pm
London, Apr 4 (IBNS) The Earth's magnetic field permanently protects people from the charged particles and radiation that originate in the Sun.
Social media as a force for families: Study
Apr 04, 2016, at 09:19 pm
Queensland, Apr 4 (IBNS) Social media and electronic gaming strategies can have an extremely positive influence on the lives of impoverished families, a study of The University of Queensland’s Triple P Online program has found.
President Mukherjee to present National Geoscience Awards 2014 on Tuesday
Apr 04, 2016, at 06:58 pm
New Delhi, Apr 4 (IBNS) President of India, Pranab Mukherjee will confer the National Geoscience Awards - 2014 at a function to be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday.
NASA, Japan make ASTER Earth data available at no cost
Apr 02, 2016, at 04:34 pm
Washington, Apr 2 (IBNS) All Earth imagery from a prolific Japanese remote sensing instrument operating aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft since late 1999 is now available to users everywhere at no cost.
NASA’s Spitzer maps climate patterns on a Super-Earth
Mar 31, 2016, at 03:10 pm
California, Mar 31 (IBNS) Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet -- a rocky planet nearly two times as big as ours.
NASA's 'Spaceport of the Future' reaches another milestone
Mar 30, 2016, at 03:18 pm
Washington, Mar 30 (IBNS) NASA has completed a major milestone on its journey to Mars and is ready to begin another phase of work on its spaceport of the future, where the next generation of astronauts will launch to Mars and other deep-space destinations.
Simplifying obesity reduction surgery with robotics
Mar 29, 2016, at 04:44 pm
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Mar 29 (IBNS) Doctors in Delhi, Hyderabad and other places are suggesting robotic bariatric surgery for those with morbid obesity as part of the patient's weight reduction regime.
Investigating the mystery of migrating 'Hot Jupiters'
Mar 29, 2016, at 03:35 pm
Washington, Mar 29 (IBNS) The last decade has seen a bonanza of exoplanet discoveries. Nearly 2,000 exoplanets -- planets outside our solar system -- have been confirmed so far, and more than 5,000 candidate exoplanets have been identified. Many of these exotic worlds belong to a class known as "hot Jupiters." These are gas giants like Jupiter but much hotter, with orbits that take them feverishly close to their stars.
2016 Arctic Sea ice wintertime extent hits another record low
Mar 29, 2016, at 03:25 pm
Washington, Mar 29 (IBNS) Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA.
Research shows potential for emergence of new Ebola virus
Mar 26, 2016, at 09:56 pm
London, Mar 26 (IBNS) A team from the University’s School of Biosciences examined the differences between Ebola viruses that cause severe disease in humans and the Reston virus that does not.
Working towards 'seamless' infrared maps of Titan
Mar 25, 2016, at 09:06 pm
Washington, Mar 25 (IBNS) Each of these two montages shows four synthetic views of Titan created using data acquired by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIMS) on board NASA's Cassini spacecraft between 2004 and 2015.