An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade. - John Hartigan, Sin City. 30 years old space shuttle mission has come to an end. It has allowed to write a next chapter in Space exploration in the form of Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEO) which combines departments under Space Operations and [...]

It is the first time that the discovered planet using space mission has been studied using follow-up observations from ground based telescope. This will be new trend of follow-up observations of the planets found using accompaning dedicated expensive space missions, which will give fresh new air of understanding into planetary sciences studies in years to [...]

Remarkably simple display of the human related timeline of the universe. We know what is our place in spatial universe, but even in the age of the universe, it doesn’t make much difference. I liked this Mac-like graphic to convey this message to us. Click the picture above to see our place in the lifeline [...]

After years of successful concealment, the most primitive stars outside our Milky Way galaxy have finally been unmasked. New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our galactic neighbourhood — which is crucial for our understanding of the earliest stars in the [...]

Cloud computing is slowly becoming a norm for various web-based applications. It is driving the new wave of not just applications on demand, but also infrastructure and services on demand. It utilizes the whole facility according to computational needs. It is much better than using sourcing new infrastructure and software and thereby underutilizing the present [...]