Human missions to Mars are becoming a more serious possibility, and the question of how people will cope with life so far from Earth has never felt more pressing. When four volunteers stepped into NASA’s 3D printed Mars habitat in October 2025, they began a full year inside a space designed to mirror the challenges…
For decades, scientists believed they understood how material moves deep inside the Earth. The basic theory seemed simple enough. Tectonic plates slowly shift across the planet, some slide beneath others, and the remains of these plates sink into the mantle and eventually disappear. Yet new research has revealed something unexpected far below the Pacific Ocean….
The discovery of an active underwater volcano off Canada’s Pacific coastline has revealed an unexpectedly vibrant deep-sea habitat centred around the life cycle of the Pacific white skate. Long believed to be dormant, the seamount was found to be warm, chemically rich, and covered in hundreds of thousands of large skate eggs. This finding provides…
For generations, Saturn has been the unmistakable jewel of the night sky. Anyone with even a small telescope could identify it instantly because of its bright, majestic ring system. Yet on the night of 23 November, observers around the world were confronted with a baffling and unsettling sight. Saturn appeared strangely naked. The wide, gleaming…
NASA has revealed the discovery of a mysterious red celestial object speeding through the Milky Way at an extraordinary velocity. Named CWISE J1249, this enigmatic sphere is challenging astronomers’ understanding of stars and planets. It behaves like a rogue planet, resembles a failed star, moves faster than almost any object ever recorded, and possesses physical…
The Elephants Foot of Chernobyl/ Stanford University If you were to stand near it for just thirty seconds, you might feel nothing at first, only to find yourself overwhelmed by dizziness and fatigue days later. At two minutes, your cells would begin breaking down. Four minutes could bring vomiting and fever. And if you lasted…
Pic courtesy: Claire Diperna On a quiet afternoon in University Park, Pennsylvania, aerospace engineering student Divya Tyagi (22) sat buried in equations that had defeated generations of aerodynamicists. The puzzle, first posed more than a century ago by British pioneer Hermann Glauert, was central to understanding how wind turbines extract energy from the wind. What…
People with severe vision loss have been able to read again, thanks to a tiny wireless chip implanted in one of their eyes and a pair of hightech glasses.Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common condition that affects the middle part of someone’s vision, often worsening over time. Its exact cause is unknown, but it…
Loeb said Christmas should bring clarity on whether 3I/ATLAS’s million-kilometre, ruler-straight jets come from natural ice fragments or technological probes As NASA insists the newly released images of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS confirm it is nothing more than a comet, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is arguing the opposite, that the most intriguing clues are only now…
A new Amazon Prime documentary has ignited fresh controversy in the UFO disclosure debate, alleging that three unidentified craft touched down at a New Mexico air base in 1964 and that former US President George H.W. Bush was privately informed about the extraordinary encounter decades later. Documentary revives claim of alien encounter at US Air…
Satellite navigation was once the quiet, invisible backbone of modern warfare. For decades, GPS gave the US military a decisive edge: precision strikes, coordinated operations and near-flawless navigation across land, sea and air. But the world has changed. On modern battlefields from Ukraine to the South China Sea, GPS has become unreliable and dangerously easy…
The quest to grow food beyond Earth has fascinated scientists and space agencies for decades, not only as a matter of survival, but as a critical strategy to sustain life on long-duration missions and future interplanetary exploration. Although many imagine leafy greens in space, the first vegetable ever to take root in microgravity was the…
Earth’s magnetic field acts like a protective cocoon, shielding the planet from harmful charged particles racing in from the Sun and deep space. But over the South Atlantic, that shield has developed an unusually weak patch known as the South Atlantic Anomaly. Recent observations show that this anomaly is not only expanding but also shifting,…
The early universe was once thought to be a quiet place where young galaxies grew slowly, gathered dust gradually and took long periods to form stars. New observations, however, show a much more active picture. One recently identified galaxy, located around 600 million years after the Big Bang, displays levels of warmth, brightness and star-forming…
Nasa released the images of Comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday, an interstellar object that briefly disappeared from public view, fuelling online speculation about alien technology. Multiple Nasa spacecraft near Mars had photographed the comet, but the images remained under wraps as the US government entered a 43-day shutdown.Senior officials have now dismissed all rumours, stressing that…
Every so often, physics delivers a discovery that feels as if it has stepped straight out of science fiction. The latest breakthrough is exactly that. Scientists have revealed a new kind of time crystal, an exotic phase of matter that repeats its structure not only in space but in time. Unlike ordinary crystals such as…
Long before telescopes, radio signals, or Harvard professors with strong views on aliens, early Homo sapiens stared at the sky and wondered whether someone out there existed and understood the world the way we did. As humans wandered across continents in search of new lands, they carried a parallel fantasy — that the universe, too,…
BENGALURU: Scientists at Isro’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) have captured new images and spectra of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it moves out of the inner Solar system after its recent perihelion passage.Using PRL’s 1.2m telescope at Mount Abu, researchers observed the comet between Nov 12 and 15. The images show a near-circular coma, the…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS images to be released by NASA The comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever discovered, is currently passing through the inner solar system, and NASA is preparing to stream its most detailed images yet. Since its detection in July 2025, scientists have closely monitored its unusual chemical makeup, fast hyperbolic trajectory, and…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS images to be released by NASA The comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever discovered, is currently passing through the inner solar system, and NASA is preparing to stream its most detailed images yet. Since its detection in July 2025, scientists have closely monitored its unusual chemical makeup, fast hyperbolic trajectory, and…
