Space & Beyond

While the night of September 1, 1856 sent shock waves among telegraphers after telegraph systems went haywire across the world a few hours after English astronomer Richard Carrington recorded the ‘first and largest’ solar flare to […]

CAPE CANAVERAL (TIP): Given her background in researching some of the deadliest pathogens on Earth, including Ebola, colleagues of newly arrived astronaut Kate Rubins had expected her to want to do “crazy science fiction” on […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Recurring slope linae, dark streaks that change seasonally, on Martian slopes indicate presence of flowing water, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the red planet’s largest canyon system. […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): Astronomers have found clouds of water or water ice for the first time outside the solar system. Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, UC Santa Cruz scientists observed the clouds on […]

LONDON (TIP): Gravitational waves or ripples in space-time captured by space detectors could soon be used to discover when and how some of the universe’s largest black holes were born, scientists say. Scientists led by […]

LONDON (TIP): Four vegetables grown on soil similar to that on Mars have been found safe for human consumption, Dutch scientists say. In greenhouses at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, scientists have worked on growing […]

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have produced the most detailed radio map yet of the atmosphere of Jupiter, unveiling massive movement of ammonia gas under the colourful bands, spots and whirling clouds visible to the naked eye. The […]

CAPE CANAVERAL (TIP): The ground-breaking detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time postulated by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, that was announced in February was no fluke. Scientists said on Wednesday that they […]

NEW YORK (TIP): Scientists have discovered an ancient space rock which can reportedly shed more light on the evolution of life. The meteorite, discovered in Sweden’s fossil meteorite-rich Thorsberg quarry, belongs to a type that […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): In a discovery that points to exciting geological activity on a distant cold planet billions of miles from Earth, #NASA scientists have discovered that the icy surface of Pluto’s “heart” is being constantly renewed […]

RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, CALIF (TIP): SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says if things go according to plan people will be on Mars just nine years from now. During an interview on Wednesday at the Code Conference […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): Using the Very Large Array (VLA), located in New Mexico, US, an international team of scientists has detected a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion […]