Scientists have now looked at the presence of the ozone layer on exoplanets to look for signs of life on Earth. The ultimate objective of space exploration remains the discovery of life beyond Earth or even signs that life once existed in these far-out worlds. Astronomers have so far discovered over 5000 planets in our…
Weeks after rolling out the Space Launch System on the pad, Nasa is set to resume the critical test for the world’s most powerful rocket to test its feasibility for a mission to the Moon. Engineers and the Artemis team will resume the Wet Dress Rehearsals for the system with a modified test, primarily focused on…
With the Space Launch System (SLS) already on the launch pad for initial testing ahead of the maiden uncrewed mission to the Moon, Nasa is looking for several private players to ferry astronauts to the Moon. The American space agency is looking for a sustained presence on the lunar surface and aims to conduct at least…
Nasa is all set to announce the names of the newly selected candidates to train as astronauts for future missions ranging from venturing to the Moon and onwards to Mars. The American space agency has reviewed over 12,000 applications and will announce the selected candidates at 11:00 pm IST today. Nasa said that the…
Nasa is preparing to launch a mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid — a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment,…
Landsat 9, a joint mission between NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS) that was launched on September 27, 2021, has collected its first light images of Earth. Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson said, “Landsat 9’s first images capture critical observations about our changing planet and will advance this joint…
Clicking a selfie is probably the most common thing we do in our everyday lives. All it takes is a click and a second. However, things are a little bit different when you are clicking the selfie of a rover 362 million kilometres away on another planet. The April 6 selfie of the Perseverance rover alongside…
Two astronauts on the International Space Station undertook a spacewalk Friday to continue with the installation work of the new, roll-up solar arrays, to upgrade the power supply on the ISS. Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut Shane…
Over the next several months, Perseverance will be exploring a four sq km patch of the crater floor, from where it will collect soil samples. The Perseverance rover trundling the surface of Mars began its most critical mission phase — looking for ancient microbial life. This phase of the mission began on June 1, the…
Scientists team led by Jane Greaves of Cardiff University,UK have detected the Phosphine ( which is considered as a presence of some habitats ) with the help of Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii along with the Atacama large Millimeter/sub millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile earlier. Phosphine is a gas produced exclusively…