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ISRO's PSLV-C53 was launched on Thursday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. It is designed to orbit the DS-EO satellites along with two other co-passenger satellites from Singapore.

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Our solar system will be stable for the next 1,00,000 years according to researchers. Mathematicians from the University of Sofia have revealed that the orbits of bodies in our solar system are unlikely to be affected for a long period of time - nearly a 100 millennia. The researchers covered a smaller scale to improve the reliability of their findings, instead of cov...

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NASA has announced that it has equipped upcoming Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High Spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths (ASTHROS) mission with a giant mirror.The agency's ASTHROS mission is being managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California and will be launched no earlier than December next year.

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Asteroids are rocky celestial bodies that are located in the main asteroid belt and resolve around the sun, just like planets. Created furing the formation of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago, most of these asteroids do not pose a threat to Earth, but can cause a catastrophe in case of an impact on the planet. International Asteroid Day is observed on Jun...

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Scientists have identified that the systemic warming in a pool of water present in the northeast Pacific Ocean is due to human activities and not from natural climatic variations. The pool of water has witnessed a surface water temperature increase of up to 3 degrees Celsius since 1996. The three million square kilometres body has been seeing a rise in temperatures du...

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NASA administrator Bill Nelson said that the agency will reveal the "deepest image of our Universe that has ever been taken" on July 12, thanks to the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope.

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NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers sent by the space agency to explore Mars have been able to detect organic matter in the past. While this isn't considered concrete evidence to prove that life once thrived on the Red Planet, researchers have concluded that rovers might have to dig a bit deeper to unearth the signs of ancient life, as part of a new NASA laborato...

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A team of scientists have reconstructed the condition in which the earliest organism on Earth must have existed. The reconstruction was done using light-capturing proteins in living microbes. In future studies, the scientists hoped to resurrect model rhodopsins in a laboratory using synthetic biology techniques.

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Astronomers have observed a star that not only survived a stellar explosion called a supernova, but emerged from it brighter than before the blast. This white dwarf is gravitationally locked in orbit with another star — a pairing called a binary system.

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Technology-driven approach, initiatives like Digital University in line with the NEP-2020 will be key to enhance access to quality education, said Union Minster of Education Dharmendra Pradhan. He also advocated for creating robust and resilient mechanisms for making education accessible.

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Climeworks AG is planning to build its direct air capture plant in 18-24 months, with capacity to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 per year from the air. This will be a 10-fold increase from Climeworks' existing DAC plant, currently the world's largest.

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While scientists have looked for water bodies similar to that on Earth, a study suggests that liquid water could exist on the surface of exoplanets for billions of years under other circumstances as well.

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NASA blasted a nanosatellite barely bigger than a microwave oven into outer space Tuesday, part of a landmark mission to return humans to the Moon.

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Scientists, in a latest study, have found a region on the Red Planet that might have been “repeatedly habitable” until relatively late in Martian History. They have discovered the clay-bearing sediments within the Margaritifer Terra region of Mars. The region has some of the most extensively preserved landforms that were created by running water on its surface.

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IISc researchers have developed new Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based machine learning algorithm to help to better understand and predict connectivity between different regions of the brain. The algorithm rapidly analyse the enormous amounts of data generated from diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) scans of the human brain.

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The Indian Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) has started authorising Indian private firms, marking the beginning of private space sector launches in India.

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When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence systems trained on massive amounts of human text.

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When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some sentences that appear remarkably humanlike are actually generated by artificial intelligence systems trained on massive amounts of human text.

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NASA's first-ever launch from a commercial site outside of the United States blasted off from Australia's Outback late Sunday, in a "historic" moment for the country's space industry.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s GSAT-24 satellite was successfully launched by French company Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana (South America) on Thursday. It is the first "demand driven" communication satellite mission undertaken by NSIL post space sector reforms.

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ISRO's PSLV-C53 is all set to launch three Singapore satellites — DS-EO, NeuSAR and SCOOB-I — on June 30 from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

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NASA has put an asteroid mission on hold blaming the late delivery of its own navigation software. The Psyche mission was supposed to launch this September or October. But the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab was several months late delivering its software for navigation, guidance and control.

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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been traversing over a transitional region between a clay-rich region to a sulphate-rich region. In the process, the rover has been capturing images of rocks that had once been at the bottom of multiple stream beds on the red planet.

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A sunspot, called AR3038, grew to almost twice the size of Earth. In the span of 24 hours, its diameter swelled to double its own size. The sunspot is 2.5 times the size of Earth and is facing directly at our planet.

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In an astonishing find, scientists have discovered the largest bacterium that is 5,000 times larger than most known bacteria and is even visible to the naked eye. The organism, Thiomargarita magnifica, appears as thin white filaments measuring roughly 1 cm in length.

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A startup in West Bengal has come out with a device that produces oxygen from water just by pressing of a switch, the founders of the technology claimed. 'OM Redox', the device developed by Solaire Initiatives, which is incubated in the Webel-BCC&I Tech Incubation Centre, provides pure oxygen from water, they said.

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Researchers have developed artificial photosynthesis using a two-step electrocatalytic process to convert carbon dioxide, electricity, and water into acetate, the form of the main component of vinegar. This way bypasses the need for biological photosynthesis altogether.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has asked Boston-based RR Auction to stop the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. It has also ordered the company to immediately return the samples to the space agency. The lunar dust was subsequently been fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the rock contained any s...

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Amazon has announced a tool to help software developers write code, the latest such effort by the tech industry.

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The US Food and Drug Administration has ordered all vaping products produced by Juul Labs off the market after finding the former industry leader had failed to address certain safety concerns. Juul was blamed for a surge in youth vaping over its marketing of fruit and candy flavored e-cigarettes.

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Combining data obtained from several sources, scientists have managed to unravel the mystery behind the red cap on Pluto's moon Charon and its composition. NASA's interplanetary space probe New Horizons had captured the reddish region on the top of Charon and collected data in 2015.

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NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) launched GSAT-24 in its first "demand-driven" communication satellite mission post space sector reforms, leasing the entire capacity on board to Direct-to-Home (DTH) service provider Tata Play.

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China on Thursday reportedly launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

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Astronomers from the University of Arizona, obtained an intricate image of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris which shed light on the processes associated with the death of giant stars. Hypergiant stars are extremely enormous stars that are very rare and very few are known to be present in the Milky Way galaxy. 

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NASA is trying to come up with space nuclear technologies soon. And, to work on such endeavours, the space agency has collaborated with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The agencies have selected three design concept proposals for contracts that can be each valued at approximately $5 million.

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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s GSAT-24 satellite was successfully launched by French company Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana (South America) on Thursday. It is the first "demand driven" communication satellite mission undertaken by NSIL post space sector reforms.

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ISRO's PSLV-C53 is all set to launch three Singapore satellites — DS-EO, NeuSAR and SCOOB-I — on June 30 from the Second Launch Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

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In a groundbreaking finding, researchers have developed a technology that can help effectively treat heart diseases in humans. The technology repairs heart muscles in mice after a heart attack and also successfully regenerates them.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) said on Wednesday that it expects strong support from its US counterpart NASA after the European agency's plans to cooperate with Russia on a Mars research mission were suspended due to the Ukraine war.

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The planetary formation theory that scientists have been referring to for decades seems to have been jeopardised by a recent study regarding an old meteorite. The theory explained how rocky planets like Earth and Mars acquire volatile material.

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Astronomers have made an exciting new discovery, identifying a newborn pulsar that may possibly be only 14 years old. Scientists were finally able to observe the pulsar after the dense debris and bright energy emissions from the supernova explosion that created the pulsar finally thinned enough.

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A new research has found that echolocation services work drastically better when a target is detected from sideways than when the echoes are coming from straight ahead. The researchers have noticed that human echolocators are better at localising a target from 45° off to the side as compared to identifying a target from straight ahead at 0°.

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In a fascinating find, astronomers have managed to identify a miniature spiral galaxy that's located at the centre of the Milky Way. The miniature galaxy appears to be orbiting around a large star about 32-times the size of our Sun.

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A successful launch would boost South Korea’s growing space ambitions but also prove it has key technologies to build a space-based surveillance system and bigger missiles amid animosities with rival North Korea, some experts say.

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Elon Musk said there are still a few unresolved matters with his Twitter deal including the number of spam users on the system and the coming together of the debt portion of the deal.

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Getting tested for Alzheimer's disease today can involve a painstakingly vast number of tests and scans, including memory and cognitive tests and brain scans, before producing the results. New research by a team at Imperial College London now suggests that a single MRI scan can help detect Alzheimer's disease. The research was undertaken.

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An international study has identified 562 'lost' terrestrial vertebrate species that are yet to be declared extinct. The list includes amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, found after examining data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN Red List) on 32,802 species. Most of the lost species identified by t...

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Scientists have discovered the world's oldest wildfires thanks to 430-million-year-old charcoal deposits found in Wales and Poland. They reveal a lot about what life was like on Earth during the Silurian period.

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Researchers have discovered that the ability to pick up the beat of a song or mere tapping to the music in sync has a genetic connection. In a new study, researchers from the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute worked with 23andMe using data from 6,00,000 research participants, to identify 69 genetic variants associated with beat synchronisation or the ability to sync you...

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Scientists have captured intricate details of cosmic dust and clouds in space, including the Andromeda galaxy (M31), Triangulum galaxy (M33), and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. In order to create images of the cosmic dust and clouds, researchers have relied on data from various retired missions such as the using the European Space Agency (ESA) Herschel Space O...

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Scientists have discovered a unique group of polar bears with distinct behaviour in southeast Greenland, that have remained isolated for hundreds of years. These polar bears are genetically different from other polar bears. While polar bears in the Arctic region usually depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the new group of polar bears appears to have adapted to climate c...

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Scientists think that the boulders on the surface of Asteroid Bennu might be acting as a shield against meteoroids. When a meteoroid collides with Bennu, which is a rubber-pile asteroid formed from a much bigger asteroid, it ends up fracturing, chipping, or breaking apart the boulders. Impactors also create smaller craters on Bennu due to the boulders than they would...

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Scientists have discovered a unique group of polar bears with distinct behaviour in southeast Greenland, that have remained isolated for hundreds of years. These polar bears are genetically different from other polar bears. While polar bears in the Arctic region usually depend on sea ice to hunt seals, the new group of polar bears appears to have adapted to climate c...

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Scientists think that the boulders on the surface of Asteroid Bennu might be acting as a shield against meteoroids. When a meteoroid collides with Bennu, which is a rubber-pile asteroid formed from a much bigger asteroid, it ends up fracturing, chipping, or breaking apart the boulders. Impactors also create smaller craters on Bennu due to the boulders than they would...

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The somatosensory cortex arcs across the top of brain, responsible for processing sensory information from various body parts, can be stimulated to keep our mental health in check. The cortex can be stimulates using activities like dance, movements, mindfulness.

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SpaceX has fired employees who helped write and distribute an open letter criticizing Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's behaviour, the New York Times reported.

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Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time on Thursday, expressing his view that Twitter would need to cut its headcount, but offering few other new details about his $44 billion planned takeover of the social media company.

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A group of SpaceX employees derided flamboyant billionaire Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk as a "distraction and embarrassment" in an internal letter to executives.

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Elon Musk was sued for $258 billion on Thursday by a Dogecoin investor who accused him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency.

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Scientists have discovered the fastest-growing black hole in the last 9 billion years. The black hole, which sends multi-wavelength light blazing across the universe, shines 7,000 times brighter than the entire Milky Way galaxy. Due to this, it is also known as a quasar.

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The discovery was made by analysing archival data from NASA's Hubble Telescope and other observatories of the American space agency. Termed cosmic cannibalism, the observation helped shed light on the violent nature of the evolved planetary system and can help astronomers in understanding the makeup of newly forming systems.

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It was previously reported that the China's giant Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) measuring five hundred metres has picked up weird signals. The astronomers fom the Beijing Normal University made the claims of discovering “several cases of possible technological traces and extraterrestrial civilisations from outside the Earth.” However, the report has no...

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Expanding the potential of solar cells, scientists from the University of Chicago incorporated holes on the top layer of the solar cells, making them porous. They found that the holes could improve the technology and in turn be used in making less-invasive pacemakers.

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In the latest study, published in Nature Communications, the research team led by astronomer Sean Jordan from the University of Cambridge have investigated the chemical reactions on the planet to demystify the idea of life on Venus. They looked for sulphur-based food in the Venusian atmosphere as it is the main available energy source.

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o conduct the study, the team monitored the molecules by labelling pyruvate with C13 (a carbon isotope). With this, they were able to see the consequences. Researchers have also noticed that the usage of pyruvate was based on its sources.

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China's Chang'E-5 sent an on-site definitive signal on the confirmation of water in the basalt's rock and soil through an onboard spectral analysis in 2020. The findings of the research, confirmed through laboratory analysis, have been now published in Nature Communications.

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A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley have reached a conclusion to substantiate the idea of detecting a rogue black hole in the Milky Way. The object is more likely to be a neutron star than a rogue black hole. The team of astronomers led by Casey Lam and Jessica Lu of the University of California, Berkeley, used astronomic microlensing fo...

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A new research claims that the normal temperature of the human brain swings significantly more than previously assumed. The study states that some areas of the deep brain can reach temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius, albeit this varies depending on sex, time of day, and other factors.

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Analyzing light from some distant objects in space, a team of astronomers have presented a clearer picture of one of the key events in the formation of our universe. It turned out that the cosmic dawn ended a lot later than the astronomers had thought.

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Scientists at the University of Rostock, in collaboration with researchers from the Vienna University of Technology, have devised a revolutionary process that may make artificial materials transparent or even completely invisible on command. The team has devised a completely new method for designing artificial materials that can carry light signals without distortions...

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Google suspended senior software engineer Blake Lemoine on June 13 for sharing transcripts of a chat with a “sentient” artificial intelligence (AI) and violating Google's confidentiality policy. He had published transcripts of chats between him and the company's LaMDA (Language Model For Dialogue Applications) chatbot development system. Lemoine defined the system...

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SpaceX has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s approval for its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket program in Boco Choca, Texas. However, the company will have to wait a bit before launching its project.

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ESA announced holding talks with Russia's Roscosmos space agency over the ExoMars rover mission, which is aimed to look for signs of life on Mars. The agency did not reveal the outcome of the conversation.

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A team of researchers from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a way to make biocement from trash. Biocement is a type of renewable cement that binds soil into a solid block by using bacteria to induce a hardening reaction. It has been made using industrial carbide sludge and urea (from mammalian urine).

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A new study has researched about Jupiter's metal concentration and distribution, suggesting that the planet ate a lot of rocky planetesimals when it was young. The authors sought to use Juno's Gravity Science experiment to investigate the metals in the planet's atmosphere. Jupiter's atmosphere isn't as homogeneous as originally imagined, according to experts.

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NASA has reportedly expressed concern over SpaceX’s use of Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The space agency fears that Starship’s explosion at Launch Complex 39A could effectively cut off the NASA’s sole means of launching the US astronauts to ISS.

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A team of astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, has discovered what appears to be a free-floating black hole for the first time using gravitational microlensing. The unseen compact object's mass is estimated to be between 1.6 and 4.4 times that of the Sun, according to the astronomers.

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European Space Agency's Mars Express mission captured an image of Aonia Terra, a crater-filled region in the Red Planet's southern hemisphere. One of the images shows a crater encircled by winding channels. A closer look would suggest that the image looks eerily like a human eyeball.

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NASA, along with Astra, will send another tiny storm-monitoring satellites to orbit as the companies lost their previous mission after engine failure. The earlier test had a rocket carrying two MIT-designed small satellites to measure moisture and precipitation in tropical storm systems.

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In the latest and fascinating find, astronomers have detected a rare kind of cosmic object in the Milky Way galaxy. The object named MAXI J1816-195 is found to be emanating X-ray light that was first detected on June 7. The discovery was brought to light by astrophysicist Hitoshi Negoro of Nihon University, Japan, and his team.

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Scientists have good news with regards to Antarctica. A secret ecosystem has been thriving under the icy surface and the discovery was recently made. Researchers have found this "hidden world" beneath the Larsen Ice Shelf. The discovery was made 1,600 feet below the surface.

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In what could mark a major step toward solving the problem of freshwater scarcity, scientists have developed a device that filters saltwater a thousand times faster than conventionally used devices. On the industrial scale, seawater is made fit for drinking through the desalination process.

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Contradicting a previously accepted theory, scientists have concluded that the inner core of the Earth oscillates and results in variations in the length of the day. It was earlier believed that the inner core, which is the hottest part of the Earth, rotates at a speed faster than the planet’s surface.

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A new study suggests how 5,500 marine RNA virus species may help push carbon absorbed from the atmosphere to permanent storage on the ocean floor. The effort aims to learn more about the organisms that live in the ocean and do the majority of the work of absorbing half of the human-generated carbon in the atmosphere and producing half of the oxygen we breathe in order...

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PM Modi inaugurated the headquarters of the Indian Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe)in Ahmedabad. The new centre aims to promote private investment and innovation in the space sector. 

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Scientists studied materials taken from the asteroid by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 probe, which landed on Ryugu in 2018. The spacecraft retrieved 0.2 ounces (5.4 grams) of material from the asteroid's surface and subsurface in 2019, stored it in an airtight container, and returned it to Earth.

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Maharashtra will set up a Rs.200 crore fund to invest in deep tech startups from the state, which are preferably led by women. The principal secretary for employment, entrepreneurship and innovation department, Manisha Verma also said the state is mulling to launch a seed fund for startups, but did not share details of the same. 

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Japan's IHI has dropped a gigantic 330-ton turbine power generator onto the ocean floor just off the country's coast. Named Kairyu, the technology is capable of withstanding the most powerful ocean currents and converting its flow into an unlimited supply of electricity.

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NASA revealed its plan to gather a team of scientists to examine "unidentified aerial phenomena", hinting at US government’s seriousness to study UFOs. The team will identify available data, find out the best ways to gather future data and use the information to advance scientific understanding about UFOs.

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A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, says NASA.

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An asteroid is approaching the planet Earth on Wednesday, June 8. The upcoming asteroid is raising eyebrows. An asteroid this large may have some palpable effect on our planet when it approaches on Wednesday.

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Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe have constructed simulations that directly mimic the whole life cycle of some of the greatest collections of galaxies discovered 11 billion years ago in the distant universe. Most are simply statistically constructed to resemble the real world. Constrained cosmological simulations, on ...

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A research conducted by Giannis Daras and Alexandros G. Dimakis, both students at the University of Texas at Austin, has claimed last week that the DALL-E 2 model may have established its own hidden language to communicate about objects. By asking the AI to create photos with text captions and then feeding the captions back into the system, the researchers discovered ...

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An international team of scientists has released the Hubble Space Telescope's largest near-infrared image ever. The latest find will allow astronomers to map the universe's star-forming regions and learn how the oldest, most distant galaxies formed.

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Scientists have developed a compound that can kill some hard-to-treat cancer types. After the compound was identified, scientists scanned through a screen of chemical analogs of ERX-11 and observed that another compound named ERX-41 was effective in killing ER-positive cancers in petri dishes. It was also found that the compound managed to eliminate triple-negative br...

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A team of researchers have distinguished the radiant glow of quasar 3C 273 from the light generated by its host galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile. The team were left with the quasar's galaxy's radio waves, which revealed two gigantic and intriguing radio structures that had never been seen before.

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The US Department of Energy's Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has become the world's most powerful supercomputer officially recorded, keeping a promise made by former President Barack Obama about seven years ago. The Frontier supercomputer was also declared to be the first to be capable of one quintillion operations per second. One quintillion ...

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A mysterious region in the South Atlantic with vanishing geomagnetic field spurred fears regarding Earth's magnetic polarity. However, a new study stated that the current alterations aren't extraordinary, and a reversal is unlikely. Andreas Nilsson, a geologist at Lund University, said that anomalies like the one in the South Atlantic are likely periodic phenomena lin...

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Australian Space Agency (ASA) held a virtual meeting on Tuesday. The two agency heads reviewed space cooperation and discussed potential areas of working together.

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India may soon deploy drones to gather atmospheric data, a task currently done through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day. The weather balloons and radiosondes have a disadvantage as they unretrievable once they drift afar from weather stations that release them in the atmosphere.

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The Indian government has introduced the Green Open Access Rules 2022 to accelerate India's renewable energy programmes. These rules are aimed to promote generation, purchase and consumption of green energy including through waste-to-energy plants.

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NASA will launch three rockets within weeks from northern Australia for scientific research. This will be the first time when the space agency will fire rockets from a commercial facility outside the United States.

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An asteroid is approaching the planet Earth on Wednesday, June 8. The upcoming asteroid is raising eyebrows. An asteroid this large may have some palpable effect on our planet when it approaches on Wednesday.

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Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe have constructed simulations that directly mimic the whole life cycle of some of the greatest collections of galaxies discovered 11 billion years ago in the distant universe. Most are simply statistically constructed to resemble the real world. Constrained cosmological simulations, on ...

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A research conducted by Giannis Daras and Alexandros G. Dimakis, both students at the University of Texas at Austin, has claimed last week that the DALL-E 2 model may have established its own hidden language to communicate about objects. By asking the AI to create photos with text captions and then feeding the captions back into the system, the researchers discovered ...

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An international team of scientists has released the Hubble Space Telescope's largest near-infrared image ever. The latest find will allow astronomers to map the universe's star-forming regions and learn how the oldest, most distant galaxies formed.

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Astronomers believe asteroids have remained virtually unchanged since their genesis billions of years ago in the early solar system. A new research, which was based on fragments of asteroids that collided with Earth, provides a timeline for part of the mayhem.

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Postnatal gene therapy may be able to prevent or repair many of the harmful effects of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a rare genetic condition, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In an animal model of Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, researchers discovered that restoring lost gene activity eliminates numerous clinical indications.

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New study, conducted on mice, suggests that “poisonous flowers” bulging with the cellular debris could be the main cause of Alzheimer's Disease. Researchers said their findings suggest that neurons containing these ‘poisonous flowers’ could be the ‘principal source’ of toxic amyloid plaques.

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Astronomers made the discovery using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA), the largest astronomical project in existence. The 3C 273 galaxy is a quasar, the nucleus of a galaxy believed to house a massive black hole at its centre.

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Jeff Bezos' space tourism venture Blue Origin completed its fifth crewed launch on Saturday after a New Shepard rocket's back-up system that had not met expectations delayed the voyage last month. Blue Origin's fourth flight landed successfully in March in west Texas after taking six passengers for a 10-minute journey to the edge of space.

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China on Sunday launched a new three-person mission to complete assembly work on its permanent orbiting space station. The Shenzhou 14 crew will spend six months on the Tiangong station, during which they will oversee the addition of two laboratory modules to join the main Tianhe living space that was launched in April 2021.

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A team of geologists successfully forecasted a volcanic eruption in the Sierra Negra volcano five months before it took place using an upgraded supercomputer and strategic modelling program. The volcano forecasting modelling program was set up in 2017 by geology professor Patricia Gregg and her team.

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NASA to launch a probe to the International Space Station (ISS) on June 10 that will monitor climate change on Earth. Named Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT), this probe will study the composition of mineral dust from Earth's arid regions and how the desert dust carried through the atmosphere affects the planet.

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A team of scientists from the University of Birmingham have developed a beam-steering antenna that enhances data transmission beyond 5G standards. This will give access to a range of frequencies for mobile communications that were earlier out of reach.

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Team of international researchers from the US and the UK have are working actively to develop portable, rapid biosensors capable of detecting noroviruses and mycotoxins in foods and agricultural products. Noroviruses are the leading cause of foodborne illness globally and are highly contagious, while mycotoxins are produced by fungi that can grow in warm and humid con...

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China has announced a three-member astronaut crew that will travel by the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft. Astronauts Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe will take on a six-month mission to complete the construction of the country’s space station currently orbiting the Earth.

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A team of scientists from the Boston College have shed light on the differences in the behaviour of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and its link with neuroanatomy, using artificial intelligence. Studies have earlier suggested that there might be no single set of neuroanatomical correlation that is common in all autistic people.

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Scientists have developed a compound that can kill some hard-to-treat cancer types. After the compound was identified, scientists scanned through a screen of chemical analogs of ERX-11 and observed that another compound named ERX-41 was effective in killing ER-positive cancers in petri dishes. It was also found that the compound managed to eliminate triple-negative br...

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The spectacular celestial show will be visible towards the eastern horizon just before the Sun rises and obscures the view. Those living in the Northern Hemisphere will have to look towards the east and the south. Those in the Southern Hemisphere should look towards the east and the north for the delightful view.

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A team of physicists, working together under Lancaster University’s Samuli Autti, have successfully coupled two time crystals to create a 'two-state system', also known as 'two-level system'. This can pave a new way for quantum computers that can use time crystals as qubits.

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Sony has announced the formation of a new company, Sony Space Communications, which will build and supply devices that allow small satellites in orbit to communicate with one another via laser beams. The devices will work between satellites in space and satellites communicating with ground stations.

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A team of researchers led by an Indian-origin engineer has created an e-skin that can feel pain and other sensations. The new development could help create a new generation of smart robots with human-like sensitivity.

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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a low-cost polymer film that can extract atmospheric water in arid environments. The film is flexible and can be moulded into a variety of shapes and sizes. Making the film requires a gel, which has all the relevant ingredients.

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NASA has announced that it has awarded contracts to two companies to develop the next generation of spacesuits for missions to the International Space Station and the Moon. The values of the contracts have not yet been announced but they have a combined ceiling of $3.5 billion through 2034.

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The research found an explanation for the structure of the Sun's chemical composition by taking into account the solar rotation and magnetic fields, which have changed over time.

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Researchers working closely with the University of Washington have developed a novel algorithm — known as Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery, or THOR — to find and track asteroids that could possess killer impact for our planet. The algorithm has now proved its usefulness by detecting the first candidate asteroids.

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NASA officials have confirmed the payload integration of the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), which is expected to be shipped to India after testing for integration with the satellite and eventually with the launch vehicle. NISAR is a joint earth-observation mission between ISRO and the US space agency NASA.

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A new research paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology says that extra-terrestrial civilisations may not need spaceships to travel to another star system. Extra-terrestrial and alien civilisations could employ free-floating planets as interstellar transportation to visit, explore, and colonise planetary systems. These free-floating planets are als...

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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) delayed completing a final environmental assessment of the proposed SpaceX Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket program in Texas until June 13. The agency said in April SpaceX had made multiple changes to its application that required additional FAA analysis.

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The Milky Way galaxy is home to millions of potentially liveable planets, with about four harbouring evil alien civilisations that can conquer Earth, states a new study. Alberto Caballero, the study's author and a PhD student in conflict resolution at the University of Vigo in Spain, answers the intriguing question of whether humans should fear an attack from alien ci...

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The government will soon unveil a new space policy to further increase private participation. This step could see the rise of India's own ‘SpaceX-like ventures’, state Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, is a private space transportation company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin plans to launch its fifth human mission NS-21 on June 4. NS-21 is set to launch from Blue Origin's West Texas facility on Saturday during a window that opens at 9am EDT (6:30pm IST). Six individuals will fly on NS-21, states Blue Origin on its website.

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Indian Space Research Organisation to launch India's communication satellite GSAT-24 by Arianespace from Kourou in French Guiana on June 22. The satellite and its allied equipment were shipped to Kourou, French Guiana on May 18 using C-17 Globemaster aircraft.

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Nxtdigital and Thaicom have partnered to form a strategic partnership to enter the broadband-over-satellite market and related services in India. The BoS systems could be enhanced to provide additional capacity on a software-defined high throughput satellite, augmenting the existing IPSTAR-1

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