Tag: Earth

Washington: NASA has released its latest global maps of Earth at night, providing the “clearest yet composite” view of the patterns of human settlement across our planet. Satellite images of Earth at night — often referred to as “night lights” — have been a tool for fundamental research for nearly 25 years. They have provided […]

UK/Germany: In a bid to find how alien observers might be able to detect Earth, scientists have found that at least nine exoplanets are ideally placed to observe the transits of our world. Scientists from Queen”s University Belfast in the UK and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany turned exoplanet-hunting on […]

Washington: Clicked from 1.6 million km away in space, a NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has returned its first stunning view of the entire sun-lit side of Earth. DSCOVR is equipped with the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) that took the new photo on July 6. EPIC captures a series […]

Washington: A close-up image of Pluto has revealed a vast, craterless plain – resembling frozen mud cracks on Earth that appears to be no more than 100 million years old and is still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the centre-left of the heart feature named […]

New York: The number of distant galaxies could be 10 to 100 times fewer than earlier thought, astronomers estimate. Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to look deep into the universe. The long view stirred theories of untold thousands of distant, faint galaxies. “Our work suggests that there are far fewer […]

Washington: NASA’s New Horizon probe, set for a Pluto flyby on July 14 has confirmed that there is frozen methane on Pluto’s surface. The Earth-based astronomers first observed Methane on Pluto in 1976. “We already knew there was methane on Pluto but these are our first detections,” said Will Grundy, team leader with the Lowell […]

Washington: An international team has discovered a young planetary system that shares remarkable similarities to our own early solar system. The images reveal a ring-like disk of debris surrounding a Sun-like star, in a birth environment similar to our Sun. The disk appears to be sculpted by at least one unseen solar system-like planet, is […]

Washington: NASA is seeking ideas from US companies for a spacecraft design that can be used for its ambitious Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) and a robotic satellite servicing mission in low-Earth orbit. The US space agency plans to launch the unmanned ARM in early 2020s. This will use a robotic spacecraft to capture a large […]

German researchers have developed a new technique that will help astronomers hunt for Earth-like planets around distant stars with ease

The globally averaged temperatures for October as well as the January-to-October period were both the highest on record since record keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has said

Washington: An asteroid will safely pass about three times the distance of the Earth to the Moon Jan 26, NASA reported.

Washington: In a major find, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered three new Earth-size habitable or “Goldilocks” zones around Sun-like stars. Of the three, two are likely made of rock like our Earth. Of more than 1,000 verified planets found by Kepler, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars’ habitable zone. All […]

Washington: Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880 and the planet will warm further, especially since greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have said. Global temperatures in 2018 were 0.83 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1951 to 1980, according to […]

San Francisco: In a major goof-up, popular video-sharing platform YouTube projected it upon impressionable minds that — the Earth is flat — raising the number of people who now seriously believe the planet to be a flat unending stretch of land, a study said. The fact which is to the contrary was proved almost five […]

Washington: NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. The Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) mission will cost $42 million and is planned to launch in August 2022, attached to the exterior of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS), the US space […]