There was a time when the planet was crawling with enormous dinosaurs, the next, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit, and life changed forever. Almost 66 million years ago, nearly three-quarters of all species vanished in a blink. Fires, tsunamis, scorching heat, it seems nothing stood a chance. But not everything went extinct. Some animals hung on,…
Representative image (AI-generated) The growing presence of space debris around Earth is pushing space companies to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to protect satellites and critical missions.Even a tiny fragment of debris can cause serious damage when travelling at extremely high speeds in orbit. Experts estimate that more than a million objects measuring one centimetre…
Nicolaus Copernicus (Image source: Wikipedia) Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer from the Renaissance who changed how people thought about the universe. Copernicus was born in 1473 in what is now Poland. He went to universities in Krakow, Italy, and other European cities to study math, astronomy, and medicine. Most scholars at the time…
NASA, SpaceX set for Crew 12 launch to the space station: Mission objectives explained (Image Source – NASA) Launch preparations are moving ahead at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 5.15 a.m. EST (3:45 PM IST) from Space Launch Complex 40. The…
NASA is returning to Earth in a big way. The space agency announced two new satellite missions that might change ‘how we see’ and ‘understand our home planet’. These are not just any satellites; rather, they are supposed to track everything from the ozone layer high up in the sky to glaciers and ice sheets…
Aditya Pandya, at the age of 17, achieved something most adults would dream of. He became India’s youngest male analogue astronaut after completing a simulated lunar habitat mission in Dholavira. A teenager, living inside a container-based habitat for eight days, cut off from the outside world, following strict mission rules. And on top of that,…
Trapped in Antarctic ice for 66 years, body of British scientist Dennis Bell was recovered (AI-generated) It was not expected that the ice would give anything back. Yet among rocks newly exposed by a retreating glacier on King George Island, a set of human remains was found and documented. A Polish research team working near…
NASA SpaceX Crew 12 launch reaches orbit and begins journey to the ISS (Image Source – NASA) Morning light had only just settled over the Florida coast when the Falcon 9 rose from Space Launch Complex 40. At 5.15 a.m. EST, which is 3.45 p.m. IST, the rocket carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew 12 mission cleared…
Astronomers find a solar system in the Milky Way that breaks the rules of planet formation (AI-generated) A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS 1903, does not follow the layout many scientists associate with planet formation….
Milky Way galaxy (Source: NASA) For decades, the search for extraterrestrial life has revolved around a simple rule: follow the water. If a distant planet has liquid water, and perhaps oxygen, it is flagged as potentially habitable. But new research led by scientists at ETH Zurich suggests that this long-standing strategy may be incomplete. A…
