NASA’s space telescope Hubble was launched into space in 1990 and from 1990 up till now, Hubble, with its 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) mirror, near ultraviolet, visible and near infrared spectra, has beamed back extremely high-resolution images with negligible background light. … read more
Washington D.C.: A team of scientists has accurately detected a structure in the innermost region of a quasar at a distance of more than five billion light-years from Earth. It’s the most accurate measure achieved until now of such a … read more
New York: Space exploration has come a long way, but one thing that is still holding humans back from interstellar travel is the speed of the spacecraft. With the current available technology, it will approximately take humans five months to … read more
Washington: NASA has received a record 18,300 resumes from people keen on becoming astronauts, the US space agency has said. The number of applications for a spot in NASA’s 2017 class is almost triple the amount that came in during … read more
Helsinki: An international team has constructed the first-ever model to observe how near-Earth objects (NFOs) or asteroids destroy when they reach closer to the Sun, leaving dazzling meteor showers for sky gazers on Earth. The researchers from Finland, France, the … read more