Urban areas are currently responsible for ~70% of the global energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and rapid ongoing global urbanization is increasing the number and size of cities. Thus, understanding city-scale CO2 emissions and how they vary between cities with different urban densities is a critical task. While the relationship …
Washington: Astronauts on the first manned mission to Mars are considering to grow their own food in a hi-tech “kitchen garden” onboard their spaceship, according to Nasa. Supplying enough food for a round trip to the Red Planet is one of the greatest challenges facing mission planners. Now the US …
A hotel in orbit, lunar sightseeing flights and luxury rides into the cosmos -- all are part of Russia's vision to ensure it is not left behind in the growing space tourism industry. Russian firms unveiled their plans at the country's premiere air show this week at Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, …
A new map of Antarctica illustrates for the first time how ice moves across the continent. The map’s creators believe it may be a crucial tool in helping researchers understand how a warming climate is changing the continent. The creation of the digital map was supported by NASA and combines …
NASA scientists have discovered new evidence that briny water flows on Mars during its warmest months, raising chances that life could exist on the Red Planet, the space agency said on Thursday. NASA first found signs of water on Mars more than a decade ago, but earlier indications were that …
Scientists have found evidence of flowing salt water on steep Martian slopes, which if confirmed would be the first discovery of active liquid water on the red planet, NASA said Thursday. The data gathered by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has given new focus to the hunt for life forms and …
Revives speculation on teeming microbial organisms Shifting dark streaks on the surface of Mars are signs that water is flowing there today, scientists said on Thursday. The possible presence of liquid water is certain to revive speculation that Mars is teeming with microbial organisms. The recipe for life, at least …
Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars, the space agency announced Thursday. “NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us closer to determining if the Red Planet could harbour life in some form,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden was quoted by the …
Florida: Nasa heads for Jupiter this week. And its mission can’t get much greener. A solar-powered, windmillshaped spacecraft named Juno is set to become the most distant probe ever powered by the sun. The robotic explorer is equipped with three tractor-trailersize solar panels. A rocket is set to launch the …
Scientists Are Trying To Enable Humanity’s First Encounter With Alien Life Right Here On Earth San Diego: In a laboratory perched on the edge of the continent, researchers are trying to construct ‘Life As We Don’t Know It’ in a thimbleful of liquid. Generations of scientists and science fiction fans …
End Of 30-Yr Shuttle Era: Atlantis Returns Home After Last Space Odyssey Cape Canaveral: The space shuttle Atlantis glided home through a clear moonlit sky on Thursday to complete a 13-day cargo run to the International Space Station and a 30-year odyssey for Nasa
The last US space shuttle departed the International Space Station on Tuesday, ending a 12-year program to build and service the orbital outpost, the primary legacy of NASA's shuttle fleet. Shuttle Atlantis commander Chris Ferguson and pilot Doug Hurley gently pulsed their spaceship's steering jets at 2:28 am EDT (0628 …
Willie Soon, a U.S. climate change skeptic who has also discounted the health risks of mercury emissions from coal, has received more than $1 million in funding in recent years from large energy companies and an oil industry group, according to Greenpeace. Soon, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for …
A U.N. plan to upgrade "space weather" forecasts can help the world cope with solar storms that might wreak up to $2 trillion in damage if the sun repeated a giant flare of 1859, experts said. The sun is entering a more active phase due to peak in 2013 on …
Scientists find Gujarat, Gangetic plains have ideal conditions to harness solar energy Bangalore, The Energy and Wetland Research Group (EWRG), Centre for Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have jointly mapped the solar hotspots of the country. Investment in solar power generation will now be less risky and …
The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour attached a $2 billion cosmic ray detector to the International Space Station on Thursday, and delighted scientists immediately began detecting
Boston: A Silicon Valley startup, founded by an Indian-American entrepreneur, plans to mine the moon and is in the process of building robotic rovers that will search the lunar surface for precious metals and rare metallic elements. Moon Express Inc or MoonEx, co-founded by Naveen Jain, is building the robotic …
