Philip Lubin, NASA scientist researchers are now working on a new laser technology that can send humans to Mars in three days, compared to the technology which is available now which can take up to five months. The idea is to use lasers to propel spacecraft with giant sails to Mars, with the new “photonic…
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein a century ago. Yesterday it was revealed that they have finally detected from two massive black holes colliding 1.3 billion light years away. The advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory ( LIGO) is a large scale Physics experiment to detect gravitational waves, is an example of extreme engineering…
Tim Peake is the first “official” British astronaut to leave earth for a six-month stay on the space station, and do some 265 experiments known as Principia after the celebrated text by Sir Isaac Newton. According to the UK space agency, the programme of science will certainly help to increase the country’s competiveness in areas…
India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan celebrated its 69th Independence Day of India by sending home three-dimensional images of the Solar system’s largest Valles Marineris canyon on Mars. The picture captured with special Mars colour camera, at an attitude of 1154miles 1857km from the surface of the red planet Mars. The Valles Marineris canyon system is…
From nearly 1 million miles,160,000 km away, a NASA’s Polychromatic imaging 4 megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a stunning view of the far side of the moon as it moved in front of the sun-lit side of Earth last month. The images show the fully…
The discovery of the two new species was published in July issue of Asian Journal of Conservation Biology. Indian scientists claim to have discovered two new Cycads species of plants in Odisha northern Eastern Ghats of India Cycas nayagarhensis, C. orixensis and Orixenses subsect.nov, which were dominant some 201 million to 145 million years ago,…
Solar Impulse, the fuel-free aeroplane, has completed the fifth leg of its round-the-world flight, with Bertrand Piccard at the controls, touched down in Chongqing in China just after 17:30 GMT on Monday 30th March 2015. The solar plane with 17000 solar cells, with 4-meter long propellers and 4 electric engine and a wingspan of 72…
The mission will aim to set up a permanent manned outpost on the Red Planet which could later expand and the first 24 participants will die on Mars. Three Indian candidates include 29-year-old Taranjeet Singh Bhatia, who is studying Doctorate in Computer Science at the University of Central Florida, and the other two are Ritika…
India’s Mars Orbiter launched on 5 Nov, 2013 that went into Mars Orbit on 24 Sep 2014 achieved no other country has ever done – an Indian Spacecraft orbited around Mars on maiden attempt and also transmitter full-disk colour imagery of Mars from its elliptical orbit using a high apoapsis a high resolution camera.…
2014’s popular Christmas present were drones and there are dangers in the skies. The Civil Aviation Authority has issued guidelines on the use of drones in the UK as the ever popular flying devices pose a threat including to airports and airliners. They should not fly higher than 400 feet and are not permitted to be…