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Published on May 01, 2025 03:57 PM IST

The Vikram lander on the lunar surface with the ChaSTE probe deployed. (ISRO)

Researchers claim to have found colour no one has seen before. They name it…

The researchers have published details of the experiment in Science Advances on April 18.

Published on Apr 19, 2025 10:16 AM IST

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

A graph shows the observed transmission spectrum of the habitable zone exoplanet K2-18 b using the James Webb Space Telescope MIRI spectrograph instrument. The vertical shows the fraction of star light absorbed in the planet's atmosphere due to molecules in its atmosphere. The data are shown in the yellow circles with the 1-sigma uncertainties. The curves show the model fits to the data, with the black curve showing the median fit and the cyan curves outlining the 1-sigma intervals of the model fits. The absorption features attributed to dimethyl sulphide and dimethyl disulphide are indicated by the horizontal lines and text. The image behind the graph is an illustration of a hycean planet orbiting a red dwarf star. This image was obtained by Reuters on April 16, 2025. A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge/Handout via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Published on Apr 17, 2025 07:58 AM IST

Scientifically Speaking: Fruit flies become ‘living robots’

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A nano robot 3D render. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Apr 16, 2025 06:14 PM IST

NASA will give you $3 million if you can solve their unique space toilet problem

NASA seeks innovators to minimize space waste, preparing for future missions.

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Published on Apr 13, 2025 05:05 PM IST

Colossal Biosciences responds to Indian man's question on dire wolves' ‘return’

This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows Romulus and Remus, both 3-months old and genetically engineered with similarities to the extinct dire wolf.

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Updated on Apr 08, 2025 12:01 PM IST

New study reveals why North America is slowly ‘dripping’ into Earth's mantle

Researchers found that these drip-like structures extend about 640 kilometres (400 miles) underground and are located beneath a wide region including Michigan, Nebraska, and Alabama.

Updated on Apr 06, 2025 10:19 PM IST

‘City-killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threat to Earth, but may hit moon

The asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 2% chance of striking the moon in 2032.

Published on Apr 03, 2025 05:09 PM IST

Why the surge in earthquakes lately? Could a bigger one be next? | Explainer

A woman walks past destroyed buildings in Mandalay on April 1, 2025, four days after a major earthquake struck central Myanmar.

Updated on Apr 01, 2025 09:34 PM IST

Why was Myanmar earthquake so deadly? Scientists explain

A women goes through rubble at a collapsed building following an earthquake in Naypyitaw, Myanmar Sunday, March 30, 2025.

Updated on Mar 30, 2025 09:04 PM IST

Aboard the Starlink enterprise

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A Starlink satellite-internet communication system router. (Bloomberg Photo)

Updated on Mar 21, 2025 07:42 PM IST

All about SpaceX’s ‘Dragon’ capsule bringing Sunita Williams back from ISS

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, two veteran NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov and NASA astronaut Nick Hague, manoeuvres in space following undocking from the ISS to begin a journey to return to Earth March 18, 2025 in this still image taken from video.

Updated on Mar 18, 2025 03:15 PM IST

NASA's Crew-10 enters ISS today, Sunita Williams and Wilmore set to return soon

With Crew-10's arrival, the total number of astronauts on the ISS briefly increased to 11. The new crew joined NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Don Pettit, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Aleksandr Gorbunov, Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner.

Updated on Mar 16, 2025 11:32 AM IST

Who are Crew-10 astronauts replacing Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore? What next?

Crew-10 mission astronauts (L/R) Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain and JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi walk out of the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building en route to launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on March 14, 2025.

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 09:37 AM IST

Blue Ghost captures breathtaking ‘diamond ring’ effect on the Moon

Named after a rare species of firefly, Blue Ghost is a compact yet sturdy four-legged lander designed for extra stability.

Updated on Mar 15, 2025 04:50 AM IST

SpaceX delays ISS mission to bring stuck NASA astronaut Sunita Williams home

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June last year.

Updated on Mar 13, 2025 08:29 AM IST

Scientifically Speaking: A lack of germs may be making astronauts sick

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Humans have co-evolved with a wide variety of microbes from birth, with early exposure to soil, animals. (Representative file photo)

Published on Mar 11, 2025 03:15 PM IST

Harvard astrophysicist claims god is real, gives examples to drive his point

Willie Soon, a Malaysian astrophysicist at Harvard University

Updated on Mar 08, 2025 09:31 AM IST

What is hantavirus, infection behind Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa's death

Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, and one of their dogs were found dead on February 26 in separate rooms of their Santa Fe home. (File)

Updated on Mar 08, 2025 07:05 AM IST

How fish gill genes helped create your ears

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The cells that form human ear cartilage and fish gill cartilage showed very similar patterns of gene activity, despite coming from entirely different animals. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Mar 07, 2025 11:47 AM IST

Scientifically Speaking: How fish gill genes helped create your ears

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The cells that form human ear cartilage and fish gill cartilage showed very similar patterns of gene activity, despite coming from entirely different animals. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Published on Mar 07, 2025 11:01 AM IST

Blue Ghost makes a soft landing on Moon: 5 facts about ‘Ghost Riders in the Sky’

This undated image released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander taking an Earth selfie.

Updated on Mar 02, 2025 02:24 PM IST

US spaceship to attempt daring landing on Moon's ‘unexplored surface’ today

This still image taken from a February 24, 2025 video released by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its third lunar orbit, showing the far side of the Moon and a top-down view of Blue Ghost. More than fifty years passed between the last Apollo mission and America's return to the lunar surface, when the first ever private lander touched down last February.

Updated on Mar 02, 2025 12:54 PM IST

What instruments will NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer use to search for water on Moon?

In this undated image released by NASA, Intuitive Machines’ newest lunar lander is seen attached to a SpaceX Falcon rocket. (NASA via AP)

Published on Feb 28, 2025 09:12 AM IST

‘Wild’ video of water droplets orbiting a needle in space stuns fans. Watch

Astronaut Don Pettit shared this pic that shows overlapping frames from his video involving water droplets and a knitting needle.

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Updated on Feb 28, 2025 09:01 AM IST

Mars had an ocean, sandy beaches 3 billion years ago, scientists say

An illustration shows a hypothetical picture of Mars 3.6 billion years ago when an ocean may have covered nearly half the planet, released February 24, 2025. The blue areas show the depth of the ocean filled to the shoreline level of the ancient, now-gone sea, dubbed Deuteronilus. The orange star represents the landing site of the Chinese rover Zhurong and the yellow star is the site of NASA's Perseverance rover, which landed a few months before Zhurong.

Updated on Feb 25, 2025 12:27 PM IST

Scientifically Speaking: Sale of fake designs as patents undermine integrity

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Updated on Feb 25, 2025 09:22 AM IST

Sunita Williams’ homecoming: SpaceX Crew-9 prepares for re-entry to Earth

Christmas on the ISS. Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have now been stranded in space for exactly seven months. (NASA)

Updated on Feb 25, 2025 12:28 PM IST

Isaac Newton's chilling letter predicts when the world will end

Isaac Newton predicted the doomsday in his chilling 1704 letter

Updated on Feb 16, 2025 12:29 PM IST

Asteroid collision carved 2 massive ‘grand canyons’ on moon in 10 minutes

An undated artistic rendering shows an asteroid or comet striking near the Moon's south pole about 3.8 billion years ago, an impact that carved out two large craters.