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Meta has launched a new AI system called Make-A-Video that will allow users to generate short 5 second video clips by entering text of the desired scene. The company has also released a research paper on the generative technology behind the model and also plans to release a demo experience soon.

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NASA on Thursday announced that it had reached an agreement with SpaceX to study the feasibility of boosting the Hubble Space Telescope to a higher orbit in order to extend the lifespan of one of Earth's most valuable instruments in scientific history. The Hubble Space Telescope has no on-board propulsion to counter the small but still present atmospheric drag, and it...

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Cosmicflows-4, a new catalogue of 56,000 galaxies, is the largest ever compilation of distances between the collections of stars, dust, and gas across the universe. Astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy used eight different methods to measure the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. The catalogue is also being used to study ho...

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NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid was successful on Tuesday. The US space agency is attempting to deflect the asteroid Dimorphos off its trajectory. Here's what the images shared by NASA after the impact with the asteroid can tell us about the successful DART mission, which is part of the agency's plans to de...

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NASA on Tuesday said it will be "difficult" to make its third attempt at launching its Artemis I Moon rocket in October. The US space agency said that the next possible launch windows are from October 17 to 31, then from November 12 to 27. Meanwhile, NASA has also moved the powerful SLS rocket to its storage hangar in order to protect it from the approaching Hurricane...

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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission to deflect the asteroid Dimorphos could help the world prepare for a possible asteroid Armageddon similar to the one that caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. Dimorphos orbits a larger 780-metre asteroid called Didymos. Unlike the 10-kilometre diameter dinosaur-killing asteroid that hit Earth, both asteroids do not...

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The Adani Group plans to invest $100 billion (roughly Rs. 8,14,200 crore) in renewable energy and data centres, according to company Chairman Gautam Adani. The group plans to interconnect data centres through a series of terrestrial undersea cables drawn at its ports. It also plans to build consumer-based super-apps that will bring hundreds of millions of Adani's B2C ...

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NASA on Monday successfully crashed into an asteroid in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, as the US space agency continues to work on technology to prevent potential meteorite collisions with Earth, that could threaten life on the planet. The DART spacecraft was launched by a SpaceX rocket in November 2021, and made most of its voyage under the gui...

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ISRO's Mars orbiter completed eight years in orbit around the Red Planet on Monday, as the space agency's interplanetary mission surpassed the planned lifespan of six months. The Indian space agency has organised a 'National Meet on Eight Years of India's Mars Orbiter Mission' mission at its headquarters on Tuesday, and Space Commission members K Radhakrishnan and A S...

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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, will attempt to alter the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos, on September 26. The US space agency is set to create history when it crashes a spacecraft into the asteroid, attempting to deflect it from its trajectory. A tiny moon of the asteroid Didymos, the asteroid Dimorphos is an ideal target for NASA to test an import...

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The search for alien life just got more interesting as a team of scientists recently discovered new evidence suggesting that Saturn's moon Enceladus has oceans that have all the basic requirements and materials needed for life to survive.

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Elon Musk has deployed his satellite-based Starlink service in Iran amid internet usage restrictions following widespread protests in the country. US State Secretary Antony Blinken earlier announced about advancing internet freedom and the free flow of information for the Iranian people.

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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crash into asteroid Dimorphos at 24,000 kilometres per hour on September 26. Launched from Earth in November 2021, DART is about the size of a bus and was created to test and prove our ability to defend the Earth from a dangerous asteroid.

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NASA’s Artemis 1, which faces challenges while earlier liftoffs due to technical snag, might again face a delay for its scheduled launch on Tuesday. The challenge may come as a storm gathering in the Caribbean. The storm has not yet been assigned a name.

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A water drop discovered on specks of dust from Ryugu, an asteroid close to Earth, has offered new support for the theory that life on the planet was seeded from outer space. The sample of the asteroid retrieved by the Hayabusa-2 probe has already showed that some of the building blocks of life on Earth, amino acids, may have been formed in space. The research publishe...

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Astronomers said Thursday they have spotted a hot bubble of gas spinning clockwise around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy at "mind blowing" speeds. The detection of the bubble, which only survived for a few hours, is hoped to provide insight into how these invisible, insatiable, galactic monsters work.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first image of Neptune. The most striking feature in the image is the crisp view of the planet's rings. This comes a few days after James Webb Telescope captured its first images of Mars.

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The European Space Agency on Wednesday announced the names of seven astronauts that would be trained by the agency to embark on NASA's Artemis II moon mission. Astronauts from France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, and the UK will train for the US space agency's upcoming 'Lunar Gateway' orbiting module, and three astronauts will be selected for the mission. However, only on...

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Cyborg cockroaches that can be remotely controlled and powered by solar cells could help locate survivors of earthquakes trapped under rubble in the future, a new breakthrough by Japanese researchers suggests. The research involves equipping cockroaches with a flexible solar film while sending directional signals into sensory organs on the bug's hindquarters.

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NASA astronaut Frank Rubio will join Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday as the trio blast off for the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian space agency said. Rubio is set to be the first US astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Soyuz rocket since Russia sent troops into Ukraine on February 24. Me...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new pictures of our neighbouring planet, Mars. The telescope clicked its first images and spectra of Mars on September 5. The James Webb Space Telescope, an international collaboration between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), was launched in December 2021.

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The experiment has also proved that a theory shared 70 years ago - the Schwinger effect - was correct.

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NASA announced on Monday that its InSight Mars lander had detected space rocks as they impacted the surface of the Red Planet. The robotic InSight lander tracked one space rock landing in 2020 and the other three in 2021, and all four were relatively modest in size, according to the US space agency. Researchers expect to find more data from the lander, going back to 2...

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured new pictures of our neighbouring planet, Mars. The telescope clicked its first images and spectra of Mars on September 5. The James Webb Space Telescope, an international collaboration between NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and CSA (Canadian Space Agency), was launched in December 2021.

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The experiment has also proved that a theory shared 70 years ago - the Schwinger effect - was correct.

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NASA has updated the Eyes on the Solar System website weeks before its Artemis I mission launches.

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India’s first human space-flight mission Gaganyaan is expected to launch in 2024, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said. The government had planned the space flight for 2021, but the schedule got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A Blue Origin rocket has failed mid-flight shortly after its lift-off a day ago. This has caused the rocket to abort its cargo capsule to safety before crashing into the Texas desert. The rocket aimed to send NASA-funded experiments and other payloads to the edge of the space. The booster crashed within the designated hazard area.

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An important repair for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been completed by NASA. The leaky seals on the SLS were replaced by engineers last week. One of the fuel lines to the SLS started leaking earlier this month forcing the space agency to halt its attempt to launch Artemis I.

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NASA may attempt to launch its Artemis I Moon rocket for the third time on September 23. The US space agency could launch the Artemis I SLS-Orion spacecraft on either September 23 or on September 27, according to a report. It previously halted the launch of the rocket for the second time, due to a fuel leak on September 3.

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured in-depth details of a stellar nursery nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. Webb’s recent image displays several never-before-seen young, with galaxies in background. The picture also reveals the composition of the nebula’s gas and dust.

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The apparel line uses NASA-funded Outlast technology to maintain its ability to regulate body temperature.

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The next Rocket that ISRO builds after the GSLV-MK3 could be a reusable rocket, said ISRO Chairman S Somanath. The space agency has been working on various technologies including the Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (IAD). By combining the new technologies, the space agency would like to join hands with industry, startups and its commercial arm NewSpace India Limit...

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NASA on Saturday stated that its next Artemis I SLS-Orion spacecraft launch may not take place this month. While the current launch window ends on September 6, the next possible launch window is September 19 to October 4. If NASA is unable to make a third attempt at launching the rocket by then, the next window will be October 17 to October 31.

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Skyroot Aerospace, the Hyderabad-based space startup said on Friday that it raised $51 millon (roughly Rs. 400 crore) in funding from GIC, a Singapore-based capital investment firm. The startup is looking to use the funding to build the country's first private space launch vehicles and launch heavy payloads into low-Earth orbit by mid-2023.

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After the Artemis I launch was halted on August 29, NASA rescheduled the launch to the Moon for September 3. The launch event will be livestreamed via NASA’s official YouTube channel, and also via various social media platforms. The launch coverage will begin at 5:45am EDT or 3:15pm IST with tanking operations. Here’s how you watch the Artemis I live stream onlin...

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A piece of digital artwork that won first place in a fine art competition has prompted discussion on social media about the nature of art and what it means to be an artist. 

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NASA has announced to award five new missions to Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX). These five crewed missions by SpaceX to ISS will be launched by the end of the decade. NASA has signed a $1.4 billion (nearly Rs, 11,140 crore) contract with SpaceX for these missions.

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