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: 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.
Mumbai: Fourteen exoplanets have been discovered since the year began while the figure for 2009 was 84, said eminent astronomer Malcolm Longair, of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Exoplanets are those planets that lie outside the solar system. There are billions of stars in our galaxy and a significant percentage …
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 …
The New York Times described it as “one small step for preservation and one giant leap of logic”. California’s historical commission has voted to protect two small urine collection devices, four space-sickness bags and dozens of other pieces of detritus, all currently residing nearly a quarter of a million miles …
Inventor K.R. Sridhar describes it as "the plug-and-play future of electricity." The Indian American Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former NASA scientist on Wednesday unveiled his "Bloom Box," which can generate energy by combining air and a range of fuels without going through the dirty process of combustion
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 …
Technology To Help Analyse Migratory Pattern, Breeding Himanshu Kaushik | TNN Ahmedabad: After an awareness campaign to save the whale sharks along the Gujarat coastline, Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), Gujarat forest department and Tata Chemicals have decided to do a study on their habitat, based on a technology used …
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
Budget Proposal Sparks Safety Concerns; Manned Mission To Moon Falls By Wayside Washington: Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for Nasa and others. …
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
Cape Canaveral (Florida): Nasa is finding it is not just mechanical glitches that make the International Space Station a tough place to operate. Engineers trouble-shooting a problem with the station
Washington: The US Hubble Space telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe, just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler. Scientists released the photo on Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It is the most complete picture …
