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Comet C/2019 Q4 as imaged by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Hawaii's Big Island on Sept. 10, 2019. Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

Space

NASA explains when this recently located comet will come close

Astronomers believe that the high velocity of this new comet indicates that the object likely originated from outside our solar system.

Sep 22, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Asteroid

Space

Chinese rover captures new pictures of weird substance on moon

Near a crater on the far side of moon Chinese lunar rover found something amazing that was never seen before.

Sep 20, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Biggest volcano on Jupiter's moon could explode anytime

Experts believe that the powerful gravitational pull of Jupiter is the reason behind the increased volcanic activity in Io.

Sep 19, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

This artist's concept shows a pulsar, which is like a lighthouse, as its light appears in regular pulses as it rotates. Pulsars are dense remnants of exploded stars, and are part of a class of objects called neutron stars.

Science

Massive neutron star spotted near black hole, will it face imminent death?

Earlier, scientists had detected a neutron star swallowed by a black hole, as gravitational wave discovery machines suddenly detected ripples from the space

Sep 19, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

Universe

Science

Here's how black holes cause time travel

The concept of time dilation refers to the different times measured by two clocks if one of these devices is on Earth and the other one is on a spaceship

Sep 18, 2019

By Carlo Inigo Monzon

Space

NASA's MRO captures amazing picture of avalanche on Mars

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an image of an avalanche on Red Planet on May 29 but published recently.

Sep 16, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Nasa

Space

Gemini observatory captures first-ever image of interstellar comet

The multicolour image of the first-ever interstellar comet, called C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), was captured on September 9.

Sep 14, 2019

By Nirmal Narayanan

Science

Scientists detect water in potentially habitable exoplanet for the first time

Scientists from Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the Université de Montréal found new habitable exoplanet which has water.

Sep 12, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Exoplanet

Artist's rendering of asteroids and space dust

Science

Mysterious glowing object falls from sky, triggers asteroid fear in UK

Local police officers conducted a huge search operation after they were alerted to the mysterious incident witnessed by many.

Sep 9, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Asteroid

The Chinese National Space Administration has released the images kf the "dark" side of the moon taken by Chang'e-4. Pictured: Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin deploys a scientific experiment package on the surface of the moon. In the background is

Science

Scientists claim precious metals could be lying beneath moon's surface

Scientists from US and Canada jointly conducted a study to understand what lies beneath the lunar surface.

Sep 8, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

NASA confirms new asteroid heading toward earth; Will it just pass by or destroy the planet?

When 2019 MO was destroyed while entering earth's atmosphere NASA was clueless about its coming, but now they know that another asteroid heading toward earth

Sep 7, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Asteroid Nasa

Space

SpaceChain-SSTA join hands to rewrite Singapore space industry

Singapore has already decided to put its name on the space sector but the new collaboration will help to boost those space-related projects in future.

Sep 5, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Space

Luxembourg to become Silicon Valley of asteroid mining; could be dangerous for earth

This country may become 'silicon valley' of asteroid mining by building a space mining empire but it's risky derailing asteroids on an earth-collision trajectory.

Aug 26, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Asteroid Nasa Elon musk

Night falls over radio telescope dishes of the KAT-7 Array at the proposed South African site for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope near Carnavon in the country's remote Northern Cape province

Space

8 newly detected alien signals from deep space puzzle astronomers

The recent radio signals were detected by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope.

Aug 15, 2019

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Space

Chandrayaan-2 set on course to leave Earth orbit; put on risky lunar trajectory

India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was pushed out of the Earth's gravitational field early on Wednesday on a linear path; timing critical for spacecraft's arrival on lunar orbit on August 20.

Aug 15, 2019

By Prathapan Bhaskaran