India’s heaviest communication satellite GSAT-11 launched successfully from French Guiana
Dec 05, 2018, at 04:18 pm
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) heaviest and most-advanced high throughput communication satellite GSAT-11 was successfully launched from the Spaceport in French Guiana during the early hours on Wednesday.
India's heaviest satellite launched, Narendra Modi congratulates scientists
Dec 05, 2018, at 10:16 am
New Delhi, Dec 5 (IBNS): In a major achievement, India’s heaviest satellite GSAT 11, weighing 5,854 kg, was launched from Kourou space centre in French Guiana by European commercial launch provider Arianespace on Wednesday.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Dec 04, 2018, at 05:37 pm
Washington, Dec 4 (IBNS): NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the asteroid Bennu Monday.
LHC prepares for new achievements
Dec 03, 2018, at 05:55 pm
Geneva, Dec 3 (IBNS): Early this morning, operators of the CERN Control Centre turned off the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ending the very successful second run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. CERN’s accelerator complex will be stopped for about two years to enable major upgrade and renovation works.
World simply ‘not on track’ to slow climate change this year: UN weather agency
Nov 30, 2018, at 08:03 am
New York,Nov 30 (IBNS) The world is heading in the wrong direction to slow climate change after another year of near-record temperatures, the head of the UN’s weather agency said on Thursday.
Antarctic Ozone hole is healing, confirms IIT KGP study
Nov 29, 2018, at 11:54 pm
Kharagpur, Nov 29 (IBNS): While the world is debating on climate change and global warming, researchers at IIT Kharagpur have given the environmental evangelists a reason to rejoice. A research team from the Center of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORAL) at IIT Kharagpur have come up with new data confirming that the Antarctic Ozone Hole is on a healing path.
PSLV-C43 successfully launches earth observation satellite HysIS and 30 foreign satellites
Nov 29, 2018, at 09:18 pm
New Delhi, Nov 29 (IBNS): The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C43) successfully launched 31 satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota on Thursday.
ISRO launches 31 satellites with PSLVC43 rocket today
Nov 29, 2018, at 10:21 am
Sriharikota, Nov 29 (IBNS): Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched 31 satellites with PSLVC43 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre here on Thursday.
monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild.
Nov 27, 2018, at 04:34 pm
New York, Nov 27 (IBNS): New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that consumer-grade drones are effective tools for monitoring marine species across multiple sites in the wild.
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Nov 27, 2018, at 12:49 pm
Washington DC, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident. NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on the Red Planet after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-km) journey from Earth.
NASA InSight Lander arrives on Martian surface to learn what lies beneath
Nov 27, 2018, at 08:58 am
Washington, Nov 27 (IBNS): Mars has just received its newest robotic resident.
NASA, Northrop Grumman launch space station, national lab cargo
Nov 17, 2018, at 07:49 pm
Washington, Nov 17 (IBNS): Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
ISRO launches communication satellite
Nov 14, 2018, at 05:40 pm
New Delhi, Nov 14 (IBNS): Adding one more glorious chapter to the history of India's space chapter, India's heaviest rocket was lifted off successfully from Sriharikota on Wednesday.
UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa
Nov 13, 2018, at 09:15 am
New York, Nov 13 (IBNS): Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.
Research brings personalised medicine to treat leukaemia one step closer
Nov 12, 2018, at 11:00 pm
Birmingham, Nov 12 (IBNS): Scientists at the University of Birmingham have revealed the roles that different types of gene mutations play in causing blood cancers in a study that was the culmination of a decade’s research.
Massive Antarctic iceberg spotted on NASA IceBridge Flight
Nov 10, 2018, at 07:17 am
Washington, Nov 10 (IBNS): NASA’s Operation IceBridge on Wednesday, November 7, flew over an iceberg that is three times the size of Manhattan – the first time anyone has laid eyes on the giant iceberg, dubbed B-46 by the U.S. National Ice Center, that broke off from Pine Island Glacier in late October.
AI will match human intelligence by 2062, claims UNSW expert
Nov 05, 2018, at 03:24 pm
Sydney, Nov 5 (IBNS): Scientia Professor Toby Walsh tells the Festival of Dangerous Ideas that Artificial Intelligence is less than 50 years away from matching humans.
CSE welcomes Kerala’s Action Plan to contain antimicrobial resistance
Oct 26, 2018, at 08:34 pm
New Delhi, Oct 26 (IBNS): Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed the Kerala Antimicrobial Resistance Strategic Action Plan (KARSAP), which was released by Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala, at a state-level consultation held in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
Oct 11, 2018, at 08:16 am
New York, Oct 11 (IBNS): Gathered at a United Nations conference in Bangkok, countries from the Asia-Pacific region pledged to work together on Wednesday to leverage the power of space technology and boost sustainable development.
Oct 06, 2018, at 09:07 pm
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IBNS): President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday inaugurated the 4th India International Science Festival in Lucknow.
Astronomers find first evidence of possible Moon outside solar system
Oct 06, 2018, at 06:54 am
Washington, Oct 6 (IBNS): Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system.
Marking World Space Week, UN stresses power of space to ‘unite the world’
Oct 05, 2018, at 10:01 am
New York, Oct 5 (IBNS): Highlighting the importance of space and its applications for humankind, the United Nations is celebrating World Space Week 2018 with a focus on the role the cosmos plays in bringing people together, back on earth.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced, US, UK scientists win
Oct 03, 2018, at 04:32 pm
Stockholm, Oct 3 (IBNS): Frances H. Arnold and George P. Smith from the US and Sir Gregory P. Winter from the UK were given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday.
First woman grabs Nobel Physics prize in 55 years
Oct 02, 2018, at 04:19 pm
Stockholm, Oct 2 (IBNS): A woman has won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the first time in 55 years.
Mitochondrial diseases could be treated with gene therapy, study suggests
Oct 01, 2018, at 04:11 pm
London, Oct 1 (IBNS): Researchers have developed a genome-editing tool for the potential treatment of mitochondrial diseases: serious and often fatal conditions which affect 1 in 5,000 people.
Scientists identify earliest known animal
Sep 21, 2018, at 09:43 am
Sydney, Sept 21 (IBNS): Scientists from ANU and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago.
Space X names Japanese businessman as its first passenger to space
Sep 18, 2018, at 08:52 am
Washington, Sept 18 (IBNS): SpaceX on Monday revealed that Japanese billionaire businessman Yusaku Maezawa is going to be their first tourist to space.
Tiny fossils reveal how shrinking was essential for successful evolution: Study
Sep 17, 2018, at 09:56 pm
Birmingham, Sept 17 (IBNS): Getting smaller was a key factor contributing to the exceptional evolution of mammals over the last 200 million years, according to a new study published today in Nature.
NASA, ULA launch mission to track Earth's changing ice
Sep 17, 2018, at 09:28 am
Washington, Sept 17 (IBNS): NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) successfully launched from California at 9:02 a.m. EDT Saturday, embarking on its mission to measure the ice of Earth’s frozen reaches with unprecedented accuracy.
Indian rocket PSLV launches two British satellites
Sep 16, 2018, at 11:11 pm
New Delhi, Sept 16 (IBNS): Adding one more feather to its cap, Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Sunday lifted off successfully with two British satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.