Is there life on other planets? One of the oldest and most popular question everyone asks whenever a discussion happen around astronomy. Although we generally focus on discussing about possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligent life, finding just ‘life’ or just their traces (like fossils), is more realistic in near future. Discovering alien fossils or martian microbial … Read more
Lucy is a NASA space probe on a twelve-year mission to eight different asteroids, visiting a main belt asteroid as well as seven Jupiter trojans. What are Trojan asteroids? For any given Two body system in space (both bodies are having mass) orbiting each other, there exist 5 points (called Lagrange points) in their orbital … Read more
Previously I’ve written about how you can make astronomical discoveries and also mentioned some Citizen Science Program where you can give your contributions to discoveries. Here’s the article – 10 Citizen Science Programs where you can make Astronomical Discoveries. One such program is NASA’s Sungrazer Project where you can discover comets. Here’s is a quick walk-through: … Read more
The Space Race was one of the outcomes of the Cold War (1947 – 1991). And two nuclear weapons were recently used by the US. The nuclear stockpile was rapidly increasing on the Earth. And obviously to use these weapons US and Soviets needed precise vehicles to deliver them to their target location, thousands of kilometers away. That’s why … Read more
