The year 2024 proved to be an outstanding time in the realm of space exploration, where the milestones achieved by several agencies held the world in awe. Milestone scientific discoveries and technological achievements marked humanity’s unwavering quest to know more about the universe.From Moon to Mars, and from solar breakthroughs to democratising space access, a…
A small asteroid, measuring 1 meter in size, burned up harmlessly in Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, according to the National aeronautics and space administration.According to NASA, the roughly 3-foot (1-meter) asteroid was detected by stargazers in Arizona and subsequently fragmented over the Philippine coastline, mere hours after its initial discovery.This celestial object, identified as 2024…
NEW DELHI: Landslides that hit the ecologically fragile region of Wayanad in Kerala on Tuesday is a stark reminder of the failure of successive govts in notifying the Western Ghats as an eco-sensitive area (ESA) – a prerequisite to preserving the terrain by banning environmentally hazardous human activities.Despite five draft notifications by the Centre since…
NEW DELHI: Nasa and the European Space Agency (ESA) are collaborating to establish a standardized time system for the moon as part of the Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the lunar surface. This new initiative will address the need for a unified timekeeping system to coordinate missions from various countries and private…
Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) have identified the biggest stellar black hole, named Gaia BH3, discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun. This black hole was detected “by chance” during data collection from ESA’s Gaia mission and it imposes an odd ‘wobbling’ motion on the companion…
