According to experts, the first audio recordings from Mars depict a peaceful planet with periodic gusts of wind where two differing speeds of sound would have a weird delayed impact on hearing. After NASA’s Perseverance rover landed on Mars in February of last year, its two microphones began recording, allowing scientists to hear for the … Read more
KARACHI: In another meticulously pre-planned act, the makers of Coke Studio come together to combine musical influences — traditional and contemporary — and to promote the multicultural Kana Yaari. The new original Balochi song released Wednesday night fetes the up and coming Eva B, a Hijab-wearing rapper who tributes her pseudonym to the Biblical first … Read more
ÅFJORD, Norway: On a gusty mountain crest, the Jama brothers weave between wind turbines that stretch as far as the eye can see, on what used to be their animals’ winter pasture. Climate emergency or not, for these reindeer herders, the turbines have to go. “Before, the area was perfect for our reindeer. The place … Read more
The spiral galaxy NGC 105, which is about 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces, is captured in this image from NASA/Hubble ESA’s Space Telescope. While it appears that NGC 105 is colliding with another galaxy, this is simply the consequence of the two objects in the night sky aligning by chance. The elongated … Read more
Russia space agency to continue growing its tourism mission A Japanese billionaire returned to Earth, after 12 days spent on the International Space Station where he made videos about performing mundane tasks in space including brushing teeth and going to the bathroom. Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano parachuted onto Kazakhstan’s steppe … Read more
WASHINGTON: A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth after a busy six months on the International Space Station landed Monday off the coast of Florida, a NASA live broadcast showed. Slowed by the Earth’s atmosphere, as well as four huge parachutes, the Dragon capsule was able to withstand the dizzying descent thanks to … Read more
GLASGOW: The 65 most vulnerable nations will see GDP drop 20 percent on average by 2050 and 64 percent by 2100 if the world heats up 2.9 degrees Celsius, according to a report released Monday at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow. Even if global temperature rises are capped at 1.5C, in keeping with the most ambitious … Read more
LONDON: Britain’s Prince William has launched an attack on space tourism, urging more attention on problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit. The comments by Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson were airing in a BBC interview later Thursday, a day after “Star Trek” star William Shatner became a real space traveller on Blue … Read more
Images from Mars reveal how water helped shape the Red Planet’s landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will guide the search for evidence of ancient life, a study said Thursday. In February, NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta … Read more
Dynamite fishing and pollution — but mostly global warming — wiped out 14 percent of the world’s coral reefs from 2009 to 2018, leaving graveyards of bleached skeletons where vibrant ecosystems once thrived, according to the largest ever survey of coral health. Hardest hit were corals in South Asia and the Pacific, around the Arabian … Read more
WASHINGTON: Four SpaceX tourists returned to Earth safely on Saturday after spending three days in space, successfully concluding the first orbital mission in history with no professional astronauts on board. The SpaceX Dragon capsule, whose heat shield allowed it to withstand descent, was slowed down by four large parachutes before splashing into the Atlantic Ocean … Read more
BEIJING: China’s Mars rover Zhurong has reached an area with complex terrain, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration. After exploring a second dune, Zhurong moved southward and arrived at the area full of rocks, impact craters and dunes, said the administration. The ground control will complete … Read more
The US space agency NASA has informed that five asteroids have been observed approaching the Earth, one of which is larger than a stadium. NASA says one of the five is one kilometre in diameter, about the size of a large stadium, twice the size of London’s Big Ben and two and a half times … Read more
2020 proved to be an unprecedented year in human history as the global coronavirus pandemic lasted for months. But time did not escape the effects of 2020, and the world’s fastest 28 days (from 1960 to now) were all recorded in 2020, as the Earth was rotating in its orbit at a faster speed than … Read more
WASHINGTON: The Earth almost dodged a doomsday following an asteroid the dimension of an SUV passed Earth at a high speed of 1,830 miles (2,950 kilometers). Making it the nearest asteroid ever witnessed lingering by Planet Earth, stated by NASA this Tuesday. If the asteroid was on the way of the collision with Earth, as … Read more
The space agency of China announced on Friday (May 8) that the country’s new spaceship has successfully returned to Earth. According to the details, this was the trial version of China’s new-generation manned spaceship. China Manned Space Agency said in a statement that the return of China’s new-generation successfully landed in the predetermined zone of … Read more
Punjab Minister for Environment Protection Bao Muhammad Rizwan has said that we need to bring change in human behavior to save environment for ourselves and for next generations. He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of 3-day second international conference on “Emerging Trends in Earth and Environmental Sciences” Law College Auditorium, University of Punjab. PU Vice … Read more
An asteroid that is twice as large as London’s iconic Big Ben is ready to close the back of our planet, according to NASA reports, BOL News learnt. According to the details, The asteroid, called BH2 2009, will get closer to Earth around 14:29 GMT. It is believed that the space rock is about 88 meters … Read more
