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Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope astronomers found a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid outskirts of our solar system the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system’s formation 4.6 billion years ago. With this discovery, most of the known dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old funerary garden, first of its kind, on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, Egypt. The original discovery made in the 16th year of archaeological excavations was sponsored this year by Técnicas Reunidas and Indra to shed light on a key epoch. It gives credence for the first time that Thebes (now Luxor) became the ...

An Indian-origin scientist and his team from Cornell University found the origin of mysterious busts of radio waves from the cosmological source to more than 3 billion light-years away. The “fast radio bursts”, which puzzled space scientists for over ten years, were previously thought to have had emanated from within the Milky Way galaxy, but the astronomers now confirm that ...

Keeping fruits and vegetable fresh for one week is enough for world food traders and transporters and if it involves silk and not refrigeration, then it is world’s great discovery. Researchers from Tufts University have demonstrated that fruits can stay fresh for more than a week without refrigeration if they are coated in an odorless, biocompatible silk solution so thin ...

Narayana Aluru, a University of Illinois professor of mechanical science and engineering has succeeded to find an energy-efficient material with nanopores to filter salt from sea water and revolutionize lifestyle on earth and end the water crisis faced on earth currently. Seemingly a rebuttal to poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s lament, “Water, water, every where, not a drop to drink”, the ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a new breed of laser technology that could significantly reduce the size and power consumption of LIDARs, or motor sensors on self-driving cars, thus potentially revolutionizing self-driving cars of the future. Self-driving cars use LIDARs that are quite large and expensive as seen above, Google’s car used  $80,000 worth LIDARs.  “This ...

With the NASA New Horizons mission inching closer to the dwarf planet Pluto, Google hs come out with doodle to mark the occasion for the mankind to get a close look at the distant solar system of ours. The animted Google doodle, by Kevin Laughlin, has come on the day when New Horizons mission will take a closest ever look ...

It took more than 30 years for NASA to open its tight-lipped response to theories of aliens or UFOs around the world but now within the ranks of NASA’s Gobbard Institute for Space Studies (GISS, there is conviction they may find alien life in the next 30 years. The researchers from New york-based institute say that tracing alien life is ...

Why Viswanathan Anand got the honour of naming a planet in his name that too 15 years after its discovery? There’s more to his chess glory as he is also an astronomy enthusiast and above all a gentleman for the staff at the Minor Planet Center. Though a minor planet, 4538 is located in between the orbits of Mars and ...

With India keeping an eagle’s eye, China successfully completed its first 118 days of deep sea manned subsmersible mining in the Indian Ocean, saying it found large deposits of precious metals besides discovering different hydrothermal areas. China’s mission named ‘Jiaolong’ discovered new hydrothermal deep-sea fissures which emit hot water and its findings could lead to further research into resources of ...