Two astronauts face a tedious cleaning and lube job Tuesday, the first of a series of spacewalks to resurrect a massive joint that turns one of the international space station’s power-generating solar-panel wings toward the sun.The 10-foot-wide joint has been clogged with metal shavings from grinding parts for more than a year, limiting how much […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation is ready to establish a world class facility for atmospheric studies near Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair informed Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhar Reddy that […]
Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft is slated to reach about one km away from its final orbital home of 100 kms above the moon’s surface this evening. ISRO scientists are planning the final orbit reduction manoeuvre for about one minute at around 7 pm that would bring the lunar spacecraft to around 101 kms above the moon’s surface, […]
A storm was expected to pelt the Rockies and northern Plains with heavy snow, sleet, rain and strong winds on Thursday, while wet weather was forecast along the East Coast.
After days of stormy weather, the Pacific Northwest was expected to begin drying out, though flooding remained a concern in Washington and Oregon as showers move […]
An American space tourist and two professional astronauts are closing in on the International Space Station as they prepare to dock at the orbiting lab early Tuesday.
Expedition 18 commander Michael Fincke of NASA, Russian flight engineer Yury Lonchakov and space tourist Richard Garriott are due to arrive at the station tomorrow at about 4:33 a.m. […]
Facebook profiles can tell you more than just peoples’ birthdays and what movies they like - they can reveal the self-adoring, a new study suggests.
Researchers at the University of Georgia gave personality questionnaires to nearly 130 Facebook users and analyzed the content of their online profiles. They also had untrained observers look at the profiles […]
Increasing use of folic acid and other dietary supplements by women may be one reason why the prevalence of asthma has nearly doubled in the past 25 years, U.S. researchers are suggesting.
They found that a pregnant woman’s diet can cause gene regulation (epigenetic) changes that increase an offspring’s risk of developing allergic asthma.
The study, by […]
The Pentagon has approved plans to buy and launch two commercial-class imagery satellites to complement its classified constellation of spy satellites.
The Pentagon will also increase the amount of imagery purchased from private companies operating similar satellites already in the sky.
The decision last week caps months of wrangling between the Air Force, the National Reconnaissance Office, […]
An international team of scientists has predicted that our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains a disk of ‘dark matter’.
The team includes astronomers Dr Justin Read, Professor George Lake and Oscar Agertz of the University of Zurich, and Dr Victor Debattista of the University of Central Lancashire, who have used the results of a supercomputer simulation […]
Insurer American International Group Inc struggled for survival a day after a financial tsunami swept away investment bank Lehman Brothers and forced the sale of rival Merrill Lynch in the biggest financial industry shake-up since the Great Depression.
AIG scrambled for a financial lifeline on Monday after investment bank […]