Astronomers have discovered a black hole closer to Earth than any other till date. It is estimated to be of ten solar mass and just 1,600 light years away, which is tagged to be very close on the vast cosmic scale.  Though only 20 black holes have been found in[Read More…]

The White is coordinating half-a-decade research plan to explore ways of modifying the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth to alter the effects of the global warming, which is being termed as geoengineering or sunlight reflection.  Researchers will be investigating the possible effects of several solar geoengineering theories, such[Read More…]

NASA’s Perseverance rover has obtained rock sample of Mars with the best ever traces of organic molecules. While “organic” doesn’t necessarily mean life – as they can have geological origins – one thing is certain: the rover did it’s job. An Organic molecule consists varied compounds, primarily made of Carbon[Read More…]

At 23:14 UST, NASA’s ‘DART MISSION’ successfully hit the bull’s eye on its target, which was a non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos.  The DART or The Double Asteroid Redirection Test aims to demonstrate that the path of an asteroid can be altered using a dummy impact on it. A vending machine sized[Read More…]

On 27th July, the James Webb Telescope captured artificially colored infrared images showing precise details of the planet Jupiter. “We’ve never seen Jupiter like this. It’s all quiet incredible,” said Imke De Pater, planetary astronomer and professor at California University. “We hadn’t really expected it to be this good, to[Read More…]

NASA partnered with European space agency and Canadian Space Agency, released the full set of the first full color images and spectroscopic data from the JWST (James Webb Space Telescope).  The data were released during a televised broadcast at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 12 2022, from NASA’s Goddard[Read More…]

More than five decades after astronauts brought the last moon-rock samples to Earth, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil from three Apollo missions for the first time. For this study, researchers used samples of lunar soil called regolith, taken during Apollo 11, 12, and 17, between 1969 and[Read More…]

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer has voluntarily recalled a blood pressure medication for the second time in a month. Pfizer is recalling five lots of blood pressure medicine Accupril because of elevated levels of a N-nitroso-quinapril, a compound known as a nitrosamine, the company said in a news release posted Friday on the[Read More…]

The Chinese University of Hong Kong recently created a brown, slimy, magnetic robot known as the ‘Reconfigurable Magnetic Slime Robot.’ A study about this innovation was initially published on March 2 in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Functional Materials. According to the study, this slime-bot can access restricted spaces and provide[Read More…]