The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has shared first images of the Earth captured by Chandrayaan-2. Sharing first image of Earth, ISRO tweeted, “First set of beautiful images of the Earth captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander Earth as viewed by #Chandrayaan2 LI4 Camera on August 3, 2019 17:28 U”. ISRO on Friday had said that the […]
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Afghanistan can be wiped off Earth in 10 days: Trump
Washington/Kabul: US President Donald Trump has claimed he can wipe Afghanistan “off the face of the Earth” in a matter of days, but preferred dialogue, sparking an outrage in Kabul and prompting it to seek clarification over the bizarre remark. At a meeting with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Oval Office on Monday, […]
Earth is flat, said YouTube
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 […]
Earth may not appear as blue by 2100: MIT study
New York : Owing to climate change surface of the oceans will change colour by end of 21st century leading our blue planet to look visibly altered, finds a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The findings showed that climate change has been significantly affecting phytoplankton — the tiny sea creatures — […]
Asteroid 2010 WC9 to flyby Earth on May 15: Report
Washington : Space rock “Asteroid 2010 WC9” will have a near-Earth encounter, about half the lunar distance, on Tuesday, media reports said. The asteroid measures from 60 to 130 meters and moves at a speed of more than 28,000 miles per hour, WeekFacts.com reported late on Saturday. Asteroid 2010 WC9 was “lost” and then found. […]
Stellar system with 3 super Earths discovered
New York : Astronomers have discovered three small super-Earth planets orbiting the star which lies at a relatively close distance of 100 light-years from our solar system. This “unusual family of super-Earths” around the star, named GJ9827, was spotted by researchers at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in the US. The star, GJ9827, is one […]
TRAPPIST-1 planets could hold more water than Earth’s oceans
Washington : The seven Earth-size planets of TRAPPIST-1 are all mostly made of rock, with some having the potential to hold far more water than Earth – 250 times more than the oceans on our home planet, says a study that offers the best-yet picture of what these planets are made of. The form that […]
Mysterious ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds discovered
Toronto, Jan 23 : Astronomers have discovered a mysterious hot spot 930 light years from Earth on a gaseous exoplanet, at a place where they did not expect to find it – a discovery that challenges scientists’ understanding of such planets found in the solar systems outside our own. Exoplanet CoRoT-2b, discovered a decade ago […]