Nasa’s Artemis II mission, which recently completed a wet dress rehearsal and was targeting an early March launch window, may now face delays after engineers detected an interruption in helium flow in the rocket. A day after announcing that its ambitious moon mission successfully completed the wet dress rehearsal, Nasa shared overnight observations on Saturday…
For almost two centuries, glass jars holding animals collected by Charles Darwin have remained sealed in museum stores. Any attempt to open them risked evaporation, contamination and irreversible damage to some of the world’s most historically important specimens. As a result, much about their preservation remained uncertain. That has now changed. Scientists from the Natural…
Galileo Galilei (Image source: Wikipedia) Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who lived in the 1500s and 1600s. A lot of people think of him as one of the most important scientists in history because he found things that changed how people thought about the universe. Galileo’s work laid the groundwork for…
Source: Discover Magazine A fossilised dinosaur egg was uncovered in South America, and scientists are calling it a remarkable discovery. The egg is estimated to be around 70 million years old and is astonishingly well-preserved. The find was made by the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Vertebrates (LACEV) at the Argentine Museum of…
Nasa on Friday set March 6 as the earliest possible launch date for Artemis II, the first crewed mission to fly around the Moon in more than five decades.Senior Nasa official Lori Glaze said additional work at the launch pad and a full dress rehearsal must still be completed before the agency can lock in…
Did alien signals reach Earth? If they did why have they gone undetected For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A new statistical study considers a narrower and more uncomfortable possibility. It asks whether one or more alien signals may already have…
First wooden satellite developed by Japan aims to reduce space debris and prevent it from re-entering Earth (Credit: Kyoto University) Wood has entered low Earth orbit in a form rarely seen before. In December 2024, five CubeSats were released from the International Space Station, including LignoSat, a small satellite built largely from magnolia timber. The…
Sunita Williams back to Earth after spending months in space Nasa has sharply criticised Boeing’s Starliner programme following an investigation into the spacecraft’s troubled 2024 mission to the International Space Station (ISS), that led to astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore being stuck in space for months. The agency blamed both technical flaws and management…
Alexander Graham Bell (Image source: Wikipedia) People know Alexander Graham Bell as the man who invented the phone. But he also thought a lot about what work and success mean. Bell was born in Scotland in 1847. He spent most of his life working on communication technology, teaching, and doing experiments. His work changed how…
UAE’s Hope Probe Extended to 2028: What More Will We Learn About Mars? The United Arab Emirates Space Agency has announced a major extension of its Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), known widely as the Hope Probe, extending operations all the way through 2028, three years beyond its original mission timeline. The announcement was made by…
