An asteroid named (153201) 2000 WO107, that is more than 800 metre high and over 500 metre wide - bigger than skyscraper Burj Khalifa - barrelled past earth on November 29 and closest to our planet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building ...

The Leonid meteor showers are currently making their yearly appearance, and will reach their peak in India on November 17 and 18. In 2020, these showers are active from November 6th to November 30th. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Leonids emerge from the comet ...

A massive asteroid named ‘Apophis’ expected to pass extremely close or may hit the Earth in 2068 due to a phenomenon called Yarkovsky effect. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Researchers at University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) in the US, have announced the ...

NASA has reported that on April 28, it observed a mix of X-ray and radio signals never observed before in the Milky Way. Significantly, the flare-up it observed included the first fast radio burst (FRB) seen within the galaxy. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Essentially, FRBs ...

NASA’s Hubble Telescope has discovered “16 Psyche,” a rare piece of heavy metal that is one of the largest objects in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Located around 370 million kilometres away from Earth, ...

Due to an event referred to as “opposition”, which takes place every two years and two months, Mars will outshine Jupiter, becoming the third brightest object (moon and Venus are first and second, respectively) in the night sky during the month of October. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

Scientists from NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the Sun has entered a new Solar Cycle. They described it as the Solar Cycle 25. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Since the Sun’s surface is a very active space, electrically ...

An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of phosphine gas in the atmosphere of Venus, arousing enthusiasm for the possibility of the presence of life forms on this planet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A team of scientists have reported traces of phosphine ...

In 2019, signals from a collision between two black holes sent gravitational waves were detected at the gravitational wave observatory LIGO (United States) and the detector Virgo (Italy). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points GW190521 is a gravitational wave signal resulting from the ...

AstroSat, India’s first multi-wavelength satellite that has five unique X-ray and ultraviolet telescopes working in tandem, has detected extreme UV light from a galaxy called AUDFs01, 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth. Key-Points A global team led by scientists of the Inter University ...