Where Did Earth’s Nitrogen Come From? Study Finds
A team of scientists from Rice University has shown that one primordial source of Nitrogen, a necessary building block for life was close to our…
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Astronomers Observe A White Dwarf Which Breaks Chandrasekhar Limit
Astronomy is one field that leaves no chance of amazing people again and again. In a new study published in Nature, researchers have used the…
When And How Asteroid Ryugu Lost Its Water? Remote Sensing Data Explains
Science always wonders us with a new discovery every day. Recently, Japan’s spacecraft Hayabusa 2 brought rocks from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. The analysis…
Primordial Black Holes And The Search For Dark Matter From The Multiverse
Black holes are always on the list of interesting things one likes to explore. The Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe…
New Discovery Can Explain The Universe’s Missing Antimatter
So let us start this with a fact. All particles that makeup matter around us have antimatter versions of them which are almost identical but…
Researchers Measure And Verify Distance Of The Farthest Observable Galaxy
Ever wondered what’s the farthest galaxy that we’ve ever seen. The galaxy GN-z11 might be the farthest and oldest galaxy we have ever observed. Led…
Mars Might Have Seen A Megaflood 4 Billion Years Ago
Scientists from Jackson State University, Cornell University, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Hawaii have analyzed data from Curiosity rover and have found…
Asteroid Apophis Might Be More Likely To Hit Earth In 2068
A report on the status of asteroid Apophis has been recently presented during a virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences.…
Astronomers Spot First BL Lacertae Galaxy At Cosmic Dawn
A team of astronomers from various universities has spotted the farthest example of a rare class of gamma-ray emitting galaxies. This galaxy called which is…
An Extremely Rare Molecule Detected On Titan That Has Never Been Found In Any Atmosphere
A team of scientists from NASA has identified a weird and extremely rare chemical in Titan’s atmosphere that has never been detected in any other…
Breakthrough: NASA’s Osiris-Rex Probe Touches Asteroid Bennu In A Historic Mission
NASA’s robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex descended to asteroid Bennu’s boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday in an attempt to collect a handful of rock samples. Japan’s Hayabusa 2…
Nokia Wins NASA Contract Worth $14.1 Million To Set Up 4G Network On Moon
Nokia USA has just won a NASA contract worth $14.1 million to provide 4G cellular network on the Moon. This grant is a part of…
The Mystery Of The Anomalous Galaxy Made Of 99.9% Dark Matter Is Solved
An international team of researchers led by the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen has found that the total number of globular clusters around…
SpaceX Can Now Launch National-Security Satellites With Used Rockets
U.S. Space Force has announced that it will launch two GPS satellites on a used Falcon-9 rocket next year. It is the first such decision…
Sun entered a new Solar Cycle, NASA confirms
NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) have confirmed that our Sun has entered a new Solar cycle starting from December 2019. This is…
Researchers Develop First-Ever Physics-Based Method For Predicting Large Solar Flares
A team of researchers from Nagoya University succeeded in developing the first physics-based model that can accurately predict imminent large solar flares. The team was…
Martian Night Sky Pulsates in UV, Discovers NASA’s Spacecraft MAVEN
NASA’s MAVEN or the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, recently captured images that show vast swathes of the Martian night sky pulsating in Ultraviolet,…
Study Shows That Early Mars Was Covered In Ice And Not Flowing Rivers
According to a new study carried out by researchers from the University of British Columbia shows that a large number of the valley networks on…
An Origin Story For a Family of Oddball Meteorites
Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these…
ALMA Detects A Twinkling Signal Coming From Heart Of The Galaxy
Astronomers found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A* using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The team…
New Study Says Extraterrestrial Life Might Be Common But Intelligence Might Be Rare
There are a few questions in science for which the whole world wants to get the answer and one such question is on the existence…
Solar System’s Oldest Fluid Found In Meteorites
Tagish Lake Meteorites are shards of a giant and a very old meteorite that landed in Tagish lake in the year 2000 is one of…
Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Found In Martian Meteorites
A 4 billion-year-old Martian meteorite has revealed organic compounds containing nitrogen and this is the first real evidence of fixed nitrogen molecules on Mars. As…
Collision Of A Heavy And Light Black Holes Detected For The First Time
Space scientists have picked gravitational waves from an unusual merger of two asymmetric black holes that is black holes with two different masses. Data from…
New Study Suggests That Space Travel Leads to Expansion In Brain
Recent research has shown that the brain of astronauts, who had stayed in space for a long time, have increased in volume. A lot of…