Do you know that traveling in space could change your brain? Yes, it does. Researchers found in the latest study that spending a long time in space could change your brain. According to our sources, researchers have explored many ways that NASA and its astronauts are able to prepare better for long-duration spaceflight missions by …
Long-term spaceflight expedition causes the brain to change: Study Read More »
After months of training, astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin took their position in the crew module on the Soyuz MS-10 mission that took off yesterday on October 11 at 4:40 am EDT from Baiknous Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But after two minutes after launch, the crew and the command center at NASA and Roscosmos …
Soyuz MS-10 mission to the ISS failed; Crew managed to land safely Read More »
Earth is not a perfect sphere but you shouldn’t care about those who claim that the Earth is flat because it is not. So, the Earth is not circular as seen in the photos but slightly bulgy around the equator and it possesses a wobbling motion also known as ‘polar motion’ when revolving around its …
What would you do if you are in a spacecraft orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 400km and you discover a hole causing pressure leakage? You would actually panic because of the numerous space movies where spacecraft explode or crash when there a hole or a crack, etc. A similar situation happened onboard the …
Astronauts plug a 2-milimeter hole found on ISS due to micrometeorite Read More »
If you follow space exploration missions closely, you know that NASA had launched a mission named OSIRIS-REx in September 2016 towards an asteroid named Bennu which is a 1,650-foot-wide space rock millions of kilometers away from the Earth. After two years, OSIRIS-REx has finally snapped its first photos of its target Bennu from a distance …
OSIRIS-REx snaps the first photo of asteroid Bennu from just 1.4 million kilometers away Read More »
Our planet has seen a number of pretty devastating dust storms in the history, however, not even one of the storms could envelop the entire planet since it would require a great amount of momentum and extremely unusual weather conditions to even initiate such a colossal dust storm. On the other hand, our neighbor planet …
Colossal dust storm has engulfed the entire red planet in thick haze Read More »
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system with 67 moons as of the last count. Jupiter has intrigued scientists for decades now and they have recently discovered 12 new moons orbiting the giant planet which takes the total moon count to 79. In March 2017, researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Sciences decided …
12 new moons found around Jupiter of which, one is an oddball Read More »
A space rock the size of two London red buses will hurtle past the Earth at a velocity of 6.7 kilometers per second or 14,987mph and could cause grave damage if it were to hit our planet. According to NASA, the Asteroid 201 8NM is about 62 feet or 19m in size and it will …
A 62-feet asteroid 2018 NM will zip past the Earth tomorrow morning Read More »
Diamonds, the rarest and one of the most precious minerals found on the face of the Earth are not so rare in reality. According to the latest research, there is a huge stash of Diamonds with more than quadrillion tons of diamonds hidden deep below the Earth’s surface waiting to be extracted. The research published …
Scientists found quadrillion tons of diamonds stashed under the Earth Read More »
This week is great for skywatchers as there will be numerous celestial sightings one could glance upon during night both with naked eye and with aid telescopes or binoculars. On July 15, our neighboring planet Venus will light up in our nighttime sky. As Moon moves 13-degrees every 24 hours, Venus will appear near the …
Watch out for Venus tonight; Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and more will be visible this week Read More »
Cape Canaveral is known to all space enthusiasts as it is one of the popular launch sites for the launch of rockets carrying spacecraft, rovers, satellites, etc. The two towers erected on complex 17 were recently detonated to give way for something new. The Cape Canaveral launch complex 17 was originally was built for Thor …
Two towers at Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 17 finally demolished Read More »
As of now, NASA depends on Russia’s space agency Roscosmos to take its astronauts to the ISS ever since its Space Shuttle program ended in 2011. The current contract with Russia’s space agency will expire in November 2019 and what is why, NASA decided to build its own spaceflight launch system with crew module for …
Audit reports from GAO suggest a gap in U.S’ access to the ISS Read More »
In a feat to discover the hidden truth and the unanswered questions that researchers have been studying for decades now, the world’s largest radio telescope with 64-dishes was inaugurated on Friday at a remote South African town named Carnarvon. The telescope is named as MeerKAT and it has 64-dishes arranged in a complex known as …
MeerKAT, world’s largest radio telescope will capture images more sensitive than Hubble Read More »
Asteroid 2017 YE5 is the fourth near-Earth binary object that zoomed past Earth last month with an estimated size taller than the height of Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Back in 2017, the object was first discovered as a single object but a recent observation revealed that it’s actually a binary asteroid revolving around each other …
Researchers found rare binary asteroids using telescopes Read More »
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is being readied at one of the NASA’s facilities towards its mission to the sun scheduled to launch on August 04 after years of development, testing, and integration. After extensive testing that was being conducted since fall 2017, The sun-bound probe has finally received its own heat shield which is a …
Sun-bound Parker Solar Probe gets its heat shield that will withstand more than 2,500° F Read More »
One of the greatest space telescopes may succumb to lack of fuel soon. NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is running out of fuel, the agency stated in its March press release that at any time, Kepler’s fuel tank can run dry and the space telescope will be lost in the space forever with no contact to …
NASA puts Kepler Space Telescope in hibernation mode, might run out of fuel soon Read More »
A lunar eclipse is due on July 28 that will be viewed across the globe but unfortunately, not in the United States. A lunar eclipse occurs when Sun, Earth, and Moon align in this specific order and Earth cast shadow on the moon. On July 28, the moon will enter under the Earth’s shadow or …
U.S. will miss the longest lunar eclipse of the century Read More »
