A team of engineers at Purdue University has developed the whitest paint ever that might be able to keep buildings cool just like an air conditioner.  The same group has come up with ultra-white paint in October 2020. The senior author of the new study, Xiulin Ruan, who is a professor of mechanical engineering at […]

In a major push to its Artemis program, NASA has decided who will develop the Moon lander. The agency has picked SpaceX to develop the lander. This will be the first commercial lander ever developed any private aerospace firm. SpaceX is owned by space enthusiast Elon Musk. The Moon lander contract is worth USD 2.9 […]

NASA has redefined the scientific approach to exploring Mars in the last few decades. It is the only space agency that has landed multiple rovers on the Red Planet’s surface. NASA has said that its Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed 20 years of mapping Earth’s neighboring planet. Odyssey spacecraft was launched on April 7 in […]

There is no risk to humanity from asteroid Apophis. NASA has announced that the asteroid will not hit the planet. There were predictions that Apophis could hit Earth in 2068. However, NASA has rubbished the possibility of any impact on Earth. The agency said that Earth is safe from Apophis. Asteroids are space rocks. These […]

Virgin Galactic has unveiled VSS Imagine which is the first in the list of the company’s third-generation spaceships. This is different from the American spaceflight company’s VSS Unity in a number of ways. The most striking difference is that it has a mirror-like finish. This makes it reflect the environment around it because of which […]

NASA has announced to defer the crucial planetary defense mission. The space agency was slated to launch the mission by mid-2021. The mission involves launching a method in space that will guard Earth against possible asteroid impact in the future. The agency had plans to test the method before validating it. According to the space […]

Private aerospace company SpaceX has won another NASA contract. The space agency has selected Elon Musk’s company for providing launch services for its Artemis program. Under this program, NASA will send three spacecraft to Moon. The third and last spacecraft will take humans to the Moon. The agency is working to land humans on the […]

The US-based space agency NASA is planning to launch another mission to Mars. This will be different from the previous missions. It will be called the Mars Ice Mapper mission. Besides NASA, the mission will involve the ISA, CSA, and JAXA. The agencies will together work on the mission to identify potential objectives for future […]

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is all set to make history. The NASA spacecraft is now preparing to return to Earth. The spacecraft is currently at asteroid Bennu. According to NASA, it will bid adieu to Bennu on May 10. As per the schedule, the spacecraft will arrive here on September 24 in 2023. The spacecraft is […]

NASA has extended the duration of its Juno mission recently and it seems that it has been worth it. The Juno spacecraft has traced an FM radio signal transmitting from the moon of Jupiter Ganymede. For the first time, scientists have been able to find something from this moon of Jupiter. Patrick Wiggins, who is […]

The US-based space agency NASA has extended the duration of two trailblazing planetary missions, which involve the Juno spacecraft and the Mars InSight Lander. The extension of these two missions has come after a review process. NASA’s planetary science division director, Lori Glaze has said that the senior review panel has confirmed that these two […]

Researchers have identified new impact craters on Moon’s surface. According to a study, an international team of researchers has identified as many as 109,000 impact craters. The study was led by researchers from Jilin University in China. They said that these impact craters were previously unrecognized. The study said that new impact craters on the […]

The US space agency NASA has confirmed that a mysterious object that is orbiting Earth is not an asteroid. It said that the object is a five decades old rocket. The details about the orbiting object were confirmed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA issued a statement after top asteroid expert Paul Chodas suspected that […]

Many studies and models have found that low-lying atolls in the Pacific Ocean are vulnerable regions to climate change. Experts have been speculating that these areas will be submerged due to rising sea levels. However, over the past decades, experts have seen a puzzling fact. They have noticed that some islands have gone bigger. A […]

The evidence that Homo sapiens have crossbred with Neanderthal has appeared for the first time in 2010. Swedish geneticist Dr. Svante Paabo has developed a way to extract, sequence, and observe ancient DNA from Neanderthal bones. He has been able to record the entire genome of Neanderthals. With the help of his work, scientists have […]

Two clinical trials have found that 10 patients who have been diagnosed with inherited sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia have shown great results with handy side effects after being treated with a CRISPR based gene therapy. Interim findings of the trials have shown that such blood disorders can be treated with gene-editing therapy. The development […]

Charles Darwin has unveiled in his theory of evolution why some insects might lose their ability to fly years ago. Today, it seems right for scores of species on islands, who have lost their exceptional ability to fly. As per the reports, not all insects are able to fly on the small islands, which are […]

A new study has found that drinking hot chocolate can increase thinking ability and make people smarter. Experts have conducted an experiment on 18 men. They have found that drinking cocoa has enhanced volunteers’ ability to solve a series of complex metal tests. The study has been done by experts from the University of Birmingham. […]

A group of experts from the University of Tokyo, the University of Calgary, and Tulane University have seen an instance of cannibalism among wild white-faced capuchin monkeys. This study has mentioned an incident of cannibalism where an adult capuchin monkey has been spotted eating the remains of a 10-day-old infant. The findings of the report […]

Scientists from Liverpool have discovered a galactic fossil galaxy, which has been hidden deep inside the Milky Way. They have found this galaxy by exploring the motions and compositions of tens of thousands of stars. Scientists have claimed that the cosmic remnant contributes to a third of the spherical halo of stars and gas in […]