You must have heard of many “-nauts” like astronaut, cosmonaut, taikonaut (and indian “vyomanaut”?!?). Those are different verbal versions of human in space, mostly in political accent. But I’m sure “Robonaut” going to be omnipresent in vocabulary of any country. So it is sort of first ‘Robonaut’, in official definition the first dexterous humanoid robot in [...]

via dailygalaxy.com Orion nebula is the nearest star forming region and it is a great observatory for further research star and planet formation. The new results of discovery of organic molecule in the nebula shall definitely change the probability equation of finding life elsewhere than on earth. The Herschel Space Observatory using the telescope’s heterodyne instrument [...]

NASA’s new budget is taking new direction. US government is planning to sort of privatise the space industry. Perhaps its a good move! Space industry can leverage knowledge, competence and efficiency of private industries. In this infographics, one can see how the outlay from federal government has changed over the years. It has perhaps changed [...]

Recent article in New York Times opens up again some questions surrounding dark energy. Dark energy slowly became popular, perhaps for the reason that it has such a catchy name, just after the finding that the expansion of our universe is accelerating. These findings were based on Supernova Type Ia observations, which are considered, from [...]

This is the first post to the new blog on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Of course, there are many blogs and news websites related to it, but I shall be sort of aggregating the quality news from various source. Being an astrophysicist myself, I have a plan to add also some of the interesting scientific publications [...]