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Research teams are gearing up as spacecraft Juno, launched in 2011 is set to touch base with Jupiter in July this year. A team led by Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom are presenting new images of Jupiter at the UK’s Royal Astronomical Society’s meeting in Nottingham. Juno will send images to give snapshots of ...

 Tectonic forces are pushing the Kuqa basin (China) beneath the Tien Shan mountains as part of the ongoing collision between the Indian subcontinent and Asia, with faults that serve as conduits for rising plugs of salt. Layers of rock rich with salt and other evaporites are quite different than other types of sedimentary rock. Salt is weak—one of the weakest ...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, which reached its peak at 8:13 p.m. EDT on Oct. 1, 2015, said NASA. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the sun constantly, captured an image of the event and the solar flares were seen as powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere to physically affect ...

NASA has released 8400 hi-resolution images of iconic Apollo Moon Missions on Flicker. NASA made available every photo taken by astronauts on Apollo Moon Missions on the project Apollo Archive‘s Flickr account, the collection contains original NASA photo scans. The Apollo astronauts took these pictures with their chest-mounted Hasselbald cameras, along with many other photos from Earth and lunar orbit. ...

As “supermoon” occurred this morning combined with a total lunar eclipse, NASA photographers have managed to capture some stunning images of a phenomenon that occurred after more than 30 years. NASA’s Joel Kowsky clicked a perigee full moon called “supermoon” next to the Empire State Building at the beginning of a total lunar eclipse, while Bill Ingalls took a stunning ...

Ruling out humans-like existence on any planet in our galaxy, UK scientists said alien life forms could be living in the sub-surface of Pluto. Based on a possible subterranean sea underneath the glaciers as shown in New Horizons mission which passed by the dwarf planet recently, they are confident enough that the the warm sub-surface could be hosting life in ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent an image of Pluto’s surface that reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is believed to be still in the process of forming. Located in north of Pluto’s icy mountains, the frozen region is informally named “Tombaugh Regio” (Tombaugh Region) after Clyde Tombaugh, who ...

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 ...

Dawn spacecraft that has already raised the levels of curiosity with bright spots captured a baffling pyramid-shaped peak towering in a flat surrounding landscape on the dwarf planet, similar to Himalayan Mount Everest. DAWN spacecraft has found a merterious pyramid on Ceres, the dwarf planet it is moving towards to take closer shots to unravel the mystery of bright spots ...

Mangalyaan, India’s prestigious Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) has entered its 100th orbit around Mars that will take slightly more than 3 days and finish by Thursday, June 25, 2015. Indian space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the MOM mission will have lifespan of about six months but an upbeat Mangalyaan team said the spacecraft will run for more than a year ...