Category: Space

NASA, Eyeing Moon, Hosts First Public Astronaut Graduation Ceremony: NASA on Friday celebrated its latest class of graduating astronauts at a public ceremony in Houston, honoring a diverse and gender-balanced group now qualified for spaceflight missions including America’s return to the Moon and eventual journey to Mars. After completing more than two years of basic…

NASA Helped by 17-Year-Old Intern to Find Planet in Habitable Zone: Just three days into his internship, little did 17-year-old Wolf Cukier realise that he is going to make history — in helping NASA discover its first Earth-size planet resting in its star’s habitable-zone — the way our Earth rests in its Goldilocks zone. In…

7 Billion Years: Oldest Solid Material on Earth Found Inside a Meteorite, Predates Solar System: A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billions of years, scientists said on Monday. The oldest…

ISRO GSAT-30 Satellite to Be Launched on Friday, Aboard Ariane 5 Rocket: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch a communication satellite GSAT-30 onboard the Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana on January 17. The 3,357kg satellite is slated to blast off from the Ariane Launch Complex at Kourou, a French territory located…

Stars Need a Partner to Create Universe’s Brightest Explosions, Study Claims: A recent study by the University of Warwick observes that stars need to be in binary systems to create gamma-ray bursts. Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s brightest explosions, caused by massive collapsing stars. Thousands of binary star systems were modelled for the study and…