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The Korean government is planning to develop a technology for South Korea's first artificial sun 'KSTAR' to maintain 100 million degrees for 300 seconds by 2026. The 300 seconds is the minimum time required for the commercialisation of nuclear fusion technology.

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MIT researchers are trying a new concept to harness the Moon's natural charge to keep hovering rovers in the air. In the absence of an atmosphere, the Moon and asteroids build an electric field through direct exposure to the Sun. On the Moon, this strong surface charge can levitate dust more than one metre above the ground.

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Are there rainbows on Mars? NASA decided to answer this questions in the latest episode of its ‘Ask The Expert' series. Shared on Instagram, the video features the US space agency's planetary scientist and Mars expert Mark Lemmon.

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NASA's James Webb Telescope is going through some critical manoeuvre phases which will determine its success as a mission to shed light on the origin of the universe. The powerful space observatory, which was launched into orbit on Christmas Day, is heading for a “make or break” moment when it attempts to unpack its five-layered sun shield.

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Biogen shares surged following a report that Samsung is in talks to acquire the US biotech company for more than $40 billion (roughly Rs. 2,98,170 crore).

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Elon Musk's SpaceX has raised $337.4 million (roughly Rs. 2,515 crore) in equity financing, the rocket company disclosed in a regulatory filing.

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Astronomers have captured a massive black hole eruption that could span the length of 16 full Moons if they were lined up side by side.

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NASA has enlisted 24 theologians and priests to understand how humans will react to the discovery of alien life. The US space agency looks to be closer than ever to discovering signs of life outside our planet.

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SavorEat, an Israeli foodtech company, has launched 3D-printed vegan burgers that can be personalised for each customer. The burgers are made on site by a self-contained 3D printer with three cartridges containing oils and other ingredients.

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Egypt has "digitally unwrapped" the mummy of famed Pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing its secrets for the first time since it was discovered in 1881 without disturbing his funerary mask.

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China accused the United States of irresponsible and unsafe conduct in space over two "close encounters" between the Chinese space station and satellites operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.

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Russia has conducted a third launch of its new heavy-class Angara rocket, the first developed after the fall of the Soviet Union 30 years ago this month.

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Japan revised the schedule of its space exploration plans, aiming to put a Japanese person on the moon by the latter half of the 2020s.

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European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer shared two videos which give a sneak peek into life aboard the International Space Station (ISS). In one of them, he shows what astronauts do to strengthen their muscle mass and bone density in the weightless environment.

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An international group of scientists has tried to study a neutron star, which is created when a giant star dies in a supernova and its core collapses, forming neutrons. In a first, the group says it has been able to measure the oscillations in the brightness in a magnetar.

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OneWeb launched 36 communications satellites into space from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, live broadcasts showed.

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Chinese citizens lashed out online against Elon Musk's space ambitions after China complained that its space station was forced to take evasive action to avoid collision with satellites launched by Musk's Starlink programme.

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Rogue planets have baffled astronomers for ages. Unlike regular planets which revolve around stars, these free-floating planets (FFPs) get ejected from star systems to move about in the galaxy on their own. In the latest discovery, astronomers found the largest cluster of rogue planets in a single star-forming region.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched on Christmas Day, had begun its first mid-course correction burn on December 25 at 7:50pm EST (6.20am IST on December 26). This burn is one of two time-sensitive milestones, the first being the deployment of solar arrays which occurred shortly after its launch.

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James Webb Space Telescope on December 25 blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost 930,000 miles from Earth, after several delays caused by technical hitches.

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NASA's largest space telescope launch countdown has begun. The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched today on Christmas Day, December 25, and space enthusiasts can watch all the action live.

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A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience.

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Scientists have repeatedly observed anomalies in Venus’ atmosphere. The most puzzling anomaly of them all is the presence of ammonia.

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NASA has delayed the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which would be the successor to the Hubble. The space agency said the launch will happen a day later than the earlier stipulated time, on Christmas Day, December 25, from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, where high winds are a major factor.

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Cryptocurrency pioneer Justin Sun will fly to space on billionaire Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin's flight next year and invite five other crew mates.

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NASA has again delayed its planned launch of the uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 by at least a month. The space agency had initially targeted the launch of the mission on February 12, 2022, but issues in the integrated testing programme have forced another schedule delay.

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Paleontologists have found a never-seen-before fossil of a complete baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg. The fossil showed the remarkable similarities between theropod dinosaurs and the birds they would evolve into, according to a new study.

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A solar storm warning has been issued, with an expert saying that at least two “big-flare players” could be released from the Sun soon. Space weather physicist Dr. Tamitha Skov said that many sunspot clusters could be seen from the Earth. She added that though there were “no large Earth-directed storms yet,” they were on “high alert.”

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A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink Internet satellites into orbit from California, US.

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From our Moon to Mars to Jupiter, researchers are baring all guns to find more about the world around us. While the current focus is on the Moon and Mars, there already is a probe orbiting Jupiter. Named Juno, the probe's goal is to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system's largest planet.

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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa returned to Earth on Monday after a 12-day journey into space, ending a practice run for his planned trip around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX in 2023.

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Earth looks incredible when seen from space, thanks to its blue cover of water bodies. Astronomers have captured the breathtaking beauty of our planet in countless photographs and videos. But has this planet always been like what it is today? How did 70 percent of Earth's surface get covered with water? Scientists have long argued the possibilities.

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A spotting scope is a compact high-power optimised tool for detailed observation of distant objects and looks like a small telescope. It always requires a tripod to set it up and obtain maximum stability. Here is a list of scopes to look at, if you are planning to buy one,

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NASA is testing the robotics and hardware that will help it bring rock and atmospheric samples collected by its Perseverance rover on Mars back to Earth.

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Researchers at a Japanese institute say they have found a way to make renewable energy more efficient. It is called “carbon/air secondary battery (CASB)” and comprises a solid-oxide fuel and electrolysis cell (SOFC/ECs) where carbon generated via electrolysis of carbon dioxide (CO2) is oxidised with air to produce energy

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Fossilised footprints of meat-eating dinosaurs discovered in Spain's La Rioja region reveal that these terrifying creatures may have sprinted faster than a car being driven on city roads.

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James Webb Space Telescope, the largest space telescope ever and the most noteworthy after Hubble, has been placed atop the Ariane 5, the rocket which will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been feeding us with several discoveries from the Red Planet ever since it landed on it in February this year. After nearly 10 months of driving around the Jezero Crater, researchers are beginning to understand that the region had been formed from red-hot magma, possibly from a long-dormant Martian volcano.

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Mars' huge canyon system, Valles Marineris, may hold hidden water beneath the surface, according to a new study. The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos' collbaorative ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) discovered large volumes of water in the canyon's heart.

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Yusaku Maezawa is stationed aboard the International Space Station (ISS) this week. The 46-year-old is the first self-paying tourist to visit the ISS since 2009, and it appears his vacation is worth the money spent.

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NASA has announced a collaboration with aerospace company Axiom Space for its second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The space agency said it will now negotiate with Axiom on a mission order agreement for the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2).

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin blasted its third private crew into space and brought it back safely, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut and TV personality Michael Strahan.

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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva.

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European Space Agency recently shared an astonishing photo on their Instagram of a spiral galaxy named NCG 7329. It also explained how the Hubble Space Telescope manages to click such stunning images.

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The United States is testing satellite resiliency to threats from China and Russia miles above the Earth's surface, just weeks after Russia shot down an aging communications satellite.

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Astronauts who travel into orbit and put up with extended stays at the International Space Station (ISS) often face vision problems. This has been linked to the micro gravitational environment in spacecraft, which leads to swelling in the brain and optic nerves.

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Sagittarius A* is the name of the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way

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Space mining is an idea that began taking hold at the turn of the century, and 10 years ago, it was passionately discussed. Many argued that space mining could revolutionise the commercial space economy by employing robots and private astronauts to explore and mine near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) for precious metals and even rare earth metals.

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The extinction of dinosaurs took place about 66 million years ago but we are yet to know the full impact of the asteroid that wiped out this species. Scientists are still studying the disaster and continuously unearthing new aspects of the devastating impact. Now, researchers say that if the asteroid's trajectory had been slightly different, it would have missed the E...

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A video reportedly recorded by an American military pilot over the South China Sea shows a dozen unidentified flying objects (UFOs) near Hong Kong, before suddenly disappearing into the clouds. The video shows three sets of four mysterious light formations flying in the distance above the clouds.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin blasted its third private crew into space and brought it back safely, this time including the daughter of the first American astronaut and TV personality Michael Strahan.

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Australian federal police say they are using an advanced DNA sequencing technology to predict the physical appearance of potential suspects.

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US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigating allegations made against Blue Origin’s human spaceflight program said it found no safety issues.

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Scientists have warned that a nearby star experienced an energy blast at least 10 times bigger than the biggest CME the Sun has ever recorded in a warning to earth.

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A giant planet, 10 times the size of Jupiter and orbiting a pair of massive stars, has been discovered using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

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India will launch its much-awaited human spaceflight mission in 2023, Union Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said. Named Gaganyaan, the first human space mission to launch from Indian soil was initially set for August 2022, to mark 75 years of India's independence but the coronavirus-induced pandemic forced a delay in its timeline.

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NASA has warned about the potential impacts of “swirling Sun debris" created by a solar storm likely to hit the Earth by December 11. The agency said a coronal mass ejection (CME) of plasma and magnetic field escaped the Sun earlier this week and is expected to possibly strike by Saturday.

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NASA launched the IXPE telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Thursday.

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Researchers are setting up an indestructible “Black Box” for Earth to record the events which could lead to our demise. This giant structure, about the size of a bus, sits on a granite plain surrounded by mountains on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

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Yusaku Maezawa set out to become the first space tourist in more than a decade to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) when he blasted off on Wednesday.

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NASA's new laser technology is finally space-bound. After much anticipation and a two-year delay, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) was launched today (December 8) at 5:19am EST. According to NASA's social media updates, the LCRD was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on an Atlas V rocket of the United Launch Alliance.

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Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope was trying to understand how young stars influenced their environment and it witnessed a shock wave of colliding luminous gases in the 'Running Man' Nebula.

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NASA shared images captured from a space observatory on Instagram, which showed the Moon's shadow as it passed over Antarctica.

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Indian-origin physician Anil Menon, a lieutenant colonel at the US Air Force, has been selected by NASA along with nine others to be astronauts for future missions, the American space agency has announced.

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Researchers have now discovered the biggest and most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in the country at the site. Fossils of 11 dinosaurs have been unearthed at Villaggio del Pescatore, a former limestone quarry close to the north-eastern port city of Trieste. The skeletons belong to the species Tethyshadros insularis, which lived 80 million years ago.

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NASA published a new blog post on Monday to inform that it has completed the complex task of fuelling the James Webb Space Telescope that is scheduled to be launched into orbit on December 22.

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The comet, named Leonard after the astronomer Gregory Leonard, who discovered it earlier this year, is likely to be bright when it makes its closest approach to Earth on December 12. In fact, the comet is still visible in the sky in the east, before sunrise.

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Stanford University has launched a class that will be conducted entirely in virtual reality (VR). It is the first VR class in the university's history.

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DNA can be described as the molecule that stores all the genetic instructions needed to shape every living organism. "That's a lot of information, and we have a copy of all that information in every single cell in our body," Dr. Keith EJ Tyo said.

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Russia will send Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa to the ISS in a move marking Moscow's return to the now booming space tourism business after a decade-long break.

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The more you bird, the more you see, and the ‘birdier’ it looks! Taking a snapshot with a camera helps capture a memory or a bird in a pretty photograph; to remember what it looks like, where it was found and what it was doing when it was found. So how do birders learn and memorise bird sounds? Well, the more you listen, the more you learn, and the louder it sound...

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A new species of dinosaur has been discovered in southern Chile. This species had a uniquely shaped armoured tail. Named Stegouros elengassen, it featured a large flat tail and at the end of it, seven pairs of blades.

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A team of researchers used DeepMind's AI to discover a surprising connection between algebraic and geometric invariant knots, establishing a completely new theorem in the field.

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Fermi National Particle Accelerator Laboratory, a US government lab, claim to have developed a magnet that demonstrates the fastest ramping rates by any magnet in the world.

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NASA will test its new laser communication technology at 2pm IST on December 5, which is aimed at speeding up space communications.

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Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) have discovered two supermassive black holes located in the constellation Aquarius, which is about 89 million light-years away from Earth.

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Scientists have developed the first living robots known as Xenobots - made up of almost 3,000 frog cells - that can reproduce via a self-replicating process.

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Some of the top technology trends that look to unfold in 2022 include the further development of Web 3.0., large-scale crypto adoption, countries regulating Big Tech firms, and the proliferation of meatless meat.

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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an experimental chewing gum that they claim could help slow down the transmission of COVID-19

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