Home » Science

Science - Page 160

(Representational image)

ISRO to launch advanced weather satellite INSAT-3DR

GSLV-F05 in its 10th flight would launch the 2,211 kg advanced weather satellite INSAT-3DR into Geostationary Transfer...

5 Sept 2016 8:04 PM IST

Credits: NASA/SDO

NASA witnesses a double eclipse

NASA’s SDO caught both, Earth and the moon crossing in front of the sun.

5 Sept 2016 5:51 PM IST

(image credit: data from Craig DeForest, SwRI)

NASA images unveil origins of solar wind

NASA scientists have for the first time imaged the edge of the Sun, enabling them to describe the mysterious origins of...

5 Sept 2016 5:50 PM IST

SETIs Allen Telescope Array (ATA) which detected the signal last year. (image:SETI)

‘Alien’ signal false; mostly likely from Earth

The strange signal that Russian scientists received from Star HD 164595 apparently located 95 light years away, may have...

2 Sept 2016 11:14 AM IST

(Photo: USLaunchReport.com)

Explosion at SpaceX launch pad destroys rocket, Facebook satellite

SpaceX is one of two companies that transport cargo to the orbiting laboratory, which flies 250 miles (400 km) above...

2 Sept 2016 11:04 AM IST

Inactive volcano spotted on largest object in asteroid belt

Inactive volcano spotted on largest object in asteroid belt

The volcano is about half as tall as Mount Everest and likely last erupted several hundred million years ago, scientists...

2 Sept 2016 10:40 AM IST

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet

Scientists find 3.7 billion-year-old fossil, oldest yet

The discovery shows life may have formed quicker and easier than once thought, about half a billion years after Earth...

1 Sept 2016 10:24 AM IST

The RATAN-600 radio telescope (credit: nat-geo.ru)

Alien signal from 95 light years tries to make contact with earth

Scientists and astronomers are receiving a strange signal from Star HD 164595 located in deep space.

31 Aug 2016 3:17 PM IST

GM mustard clears hurdle in India, but more remain

GM mustard clears hurdle in India, but more remain

A government panel has cleared commercial use of what would be India’s first genetically modified (GM) food crop,...

29 Aug 2016 6:34 AM IST

Donated blood across US to be screened for Zika virus

Donated blood across US to be screened for Zika virus

In a move to prevent transmission of the Zika virus through blood supply, the United States Food and Drug Administration...

29 Aug 2016 6:33 AM IST

Zika might spread sexually from asymptomatic man to woman

Zika might spread sexually from asymptomatic man to woman

New Zika research released on Friday has found that the virus may spread sexually from a man to a woman even if the man...

29 Aug 2016 12:16 AM IST

(Photo: AP/NASA)

SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth with station science, gear

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins waved goodbye as the Dragon slowly flew away Friday morning.

27 Aug 2016 11:03 AM IST