Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
WASHINGTON: Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say that the water on the Moon comes in three different flavors. This new announcement comes hot on the tail of a series …
Scramjet-Rocket Combo Is Set To Revolutionize The Way Payloads Are Launched Washington: In what could lower the cost of reaching space, aerospace scientists claim to be developing a hypersonic aircraft by using superfast air-breathing engines called scramjets.
What makes one prone to heart diseases and joint pain in malaria can be understood by applying basic fluid dynamics to blood flow—the same concept works on water pipes. Unlike environmental or genetic factors associated with the diseases, the flow of fluids is governed by well understood principles. Understanding does …
T.S. Subramanian An instrument carried by Chandrayaan-1 found them in the permanently shadowed regions CHENNAI: The discovery of ice deposits in more than 40 craters in the moon
New analysis of scientific data from a NASA instrument aboard the 2008 Indian moon mission Chandrayaan-1 has detected more than 40 ice-filled craters in the lunar north pole, reviving hopes for colonization of the moon by humans in future. The new data, published in the Geophysical Research Letters by US …
Latest images of Saturn's icy moon "Enceladus" showing jets of liquid and gas coming out from prominent fractures on the satellite's south polar region have left Nasa scientists astounded. "Enceladus continues to astound. With each Cassini flyby, we learn more about its extreme activity and what makes this strange moon …
London: Soon, astronauts may orbit the Earth in inflatable space stations, now that Nasa has made them a priority. According to a report in New Scientist, Nasa announced a change in this direction on February 1. Instead of the planned crewed missions to the moon, the agency intends to pour …
The youngest extra-solar planet, six times the mass of Jupiter -- 1.9x1027 kg, has been discovered. The giant planet named BD+20 1790b is only 35 million years old and orbits a young active central star at a distance closer than Mer- cury orbits the sun. An international team of astronomers …
In Attempt To Understand Cosmic History, Gold Ions Smashed To Generate 4-Trillion-Degrees-Celsius Heat Washington: Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab
R. Ramachandran Ahmedabad: The Moon Minerology Mapper (M3) on Chandrayaan-1, which famously discovered the presence of water and hydroxyl molecules on the lunar surface material last year, has now identified a new lunar rock type on the far side of the moon. The M3 is a NASA instrument. This was …
Washington: Scientists at Nasa claim to have gathered evidence that spurned Pluto is no longer a ball of ice and rock, but a dynamic world undergoing dramatic seasonal and atmospheric changes
New Probe Could Help Scientists Predict Destructive Solar Storms Chris Hastings & Jonathan Leake Nasa is to embark on one of its most ambitious missions in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the sun. Following its launch in nine days
London:Contradicting the belief that Moon is a chunk of rock that broke away from Earth due to an explosion in space, a new study claims it was created as a result of a nuclear blast on the planet
Imagine being roused from year-long sleep by a strange creature floating in zero gravity, just before landing on a distant inhabited moon. In his new blockbuster Avatar, director James Cameron places himself in the camps of those who believe there is a potential to detect Earth-sized objects. Going by the …
A Sydney-based astronomer has used ancient culture and modern technology to identify a meteorite crater in central Australia. Macquarie University PhD candidate Duane Hamacher has spent the past 18 months researching how aboriginal people incorporated the night sky into their culture. He says he used a story of the Arrente …
Mumbai: In a discovery of stellar proportions, scientists at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Colaba, in partnership with in an international team of astronomers, have found a new class of supernovae. The find uncovers a new means to detect these rare phenomena. When a massive star blows …
An earth-like planet is likely to be discovered outside the solar system by this yearend, a leading astronomer has claimed. According to Professor Michel Mayor of Geneva University, who led the team of researchers that discovered the first extrasolar planet in 1995, a planet of a similar size and composition …
