Washington, May 14 (ANI): Astronomers have used NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to determine that outbursts from stars create tiny silicate crystals in frozen comets.
Washington, May 14 (ANI): A new study has shown that much of the southward flow of cold water from the Labrador Sea moves not along the deep western boundary current, but along a previously unknown path in the interior of the North Atlantic.
London, May 14 (ANI): The Catlin Arctic Survey, a gruelling 10-week expedition to measure the thickness of sea-ice that will help study the impacts of global warming in the region, has ended.
According to a report by BBC News, two planes landed safely on May 13 on the floating Arctic ice to collect researchers Pen Hadow, Ann Daniels and Martin Hartley.
London, May 14 (ANI): Mike Massimino, a member of the NASA crew sent to Hubble, has become the first man to have sent a Twitter message from out of space.
Accoridng to a report in the Telegraph, his first tweet proclaimed: “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, and enjoying the […]
London, May 14 (ANI): A new report by the US National Research Council has said that if NASA aims to bring Mars samples back to Earth, it should prepare for the possibility that the samples could include organisms that might endanger humans and other terrestrial life.
Washington, May 14 (ANI): Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines.
The unique automated system measures the response of individual electromagnetic induction sensors or arrays of sensors against land mines buried at many possible angles.
Washington, May 14 (ANI): NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, which launched into orbit on March 6, has being hunting for other Earth-like planets.
The mission will spend the next three-and-a-half years staring at more than 100,000 stars for telltale signs of planets.
Kepler has the unique ability to find planets as small as Earth that orbit sun-like stars at distances where temperatures are right for possible lakes and oceans.
London, May 14 (ANI): British educationists are worried that children these days are not growing properly because they spend hours on the Internet rather than playing traditional outdoor games, which, by teaching basic skills, prepare one for adult life.
John Gibson, the Chairman of the Independent Schools Association, while speaking at the institution’s annual conference in Manchester, said that many children brought up in the 50s and 60s were given more freedom to play outside.
Moscow, May 14 (RIA Novosti) Russian space agency Roscosmos and the US space agency NASA have agreed on a new price for ferrying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012, an official said.
NASA will now pay $51 million for a single seat on Soyuz spacecraft.
New Delhi, May 13 (IANS) The difficult terrain made it impossible for a 12-member team of elections officials to reach in time the snow-covered Zanskar region in Jammu and Kashmir to conduct voting Wednesday.
But the determined election officials Wednesday early morning began an arduous trek up the Himalayas. As they would reach the two polling stations in the region by Thursday night, the Election Commission said in a statement here that polling will be held there Friday.