One of the most spectacular encounters of Hubble with a galaxy has been brought back into focus by a recent image posted on X. The image, although posted recently, is actually from 2008 when it was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope from NASA. The image captures two galaxies in the distant universe that are…
NASA reveals how Arctic air froze half of America in January (Image Source – NASA) A big winter storm hit the US in late January and dumped snow and ice across a lot of states. After the storm passed, the cold didn’t leave. Instead, it stuck around for days and covered a huge area, especially…
A full moon arrives at the start of February, settling into the evening sky with little fuss but quiet interest. The event itself is familiar, yet this one carries a detail that does not come around often. Alongside the bright moon, nearby stars and clusters briefly share the same patch of sky. For observers across…
As forests disappear, mosquitoes are not vanishing with them. Instead, they are adapting in ways that bring them closer to people. A new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution shows that in Brazil’s rapidly shrinking Atlantic Forest, many mosquito species are increasingly feeding on humans rather than on wild animals. Scientists warn that…
In 1905, a 26-year-old patent clerk named Albert Einstein looked at the universe and discovered that time was not what we thought it was. It was not linear. For centuries, everyone assumed the same thing about reality. Space was just there, like an empty room. Time was a steady flow, like a river moving at…
Scientists have achieved a genetic feat once thought impossible: removing an entire extra human chromosome using gene-editing technology. In a landmark laboratory study published in PNAS Nexus, researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to delete the additional copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down syndrome. After the edit, human cells grown in the lab showed gene-activity patterns much…
Scientists have uncovered an unexpected method to track falling satellites by listening to the Earth itself. Researchers found that when space debris re-enters the atmosphere at extreme speeds, it produces powerful shockwaves that travel through the ground and are picked up by earthquake-monitoring instruments. By analysing these signals, scientists can reconstruct the object’s flight path,…
The Moon might be getting some attention in 2032. A small asteroid, roughly 60 metres wide, could smack it. Experts say the odds are low, about 4 percent, but that’s not zero. And that little number has scientists both nervous and excited. Nervous for obvious reasons: debris, satellite damage, potential fireballs raining down. Excited because…
NASA’s Juno scan reveals what lies below frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon (AI-generated) New measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft have offered a clearer picture of what lies beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. During a close flyby in 2022, Juno gathered microwave data that allowed scientists to probe the moon’s icy crust to…
It sounds a little unbelievable at first. A caterpillar turns into what is basically a biological soup inside a chrysalis, then re-emerges as a butterfly or moth with wings, new senses, and a completely different lifestyle. So you’d assume everything from the caterpillar days gets wiped clean, right? No memories, no lessons learned, no lingering…
For people living with severe paralysis, video games were once among the many everyday experiences thought to be permanently out of reach. That assumption is now being quietly overturned. In recent demonstrations, paralysed patients implanted with a brain–computer interface from Neuralink have played video games using nothing but their thoughts. No controllers. No hand movements….
Unusual sounds have a habit of attracting unusual interpretations. Online, a short audio clip of thin, whistling electronic tones is surprising listeners: at first, it sounds like random noise, but when the accompanying sentence is revealed, many report suddenly hearing the words hidden within the same tones. The effect is striking and unsettling, producing a…
The hidden chemical process that saved 570-million-year-old soft animals in sandstone (Image source: NASA) For more than a century, the Ediacara Biota has quietly confused scientists. These fossils, dating back around 570 million years, capture soft, squishy organisms preserved in sandstone, which is something that really shouldn’t happen. Sandstone usually destroys delicate tissues fast, the…
These tiny “water bears” are going to space and scientists think they could change space travel (Image source: NASA) If there were ever an animal that seemed built for space, it might be the water bear. Also known as tardigrades, these microscopic creatures already sound like science fiction. They survive being frozen, boiled, dried out,…
Elon Musk confirms “Starship launch in 6 weeks” as SpaceX prepares for March 2026 liftoff (Image source_ Reuters) SpaceX has been developing its Starship rocket for quite a while and is now preparing for another significant milestone with the vehicle’s next test flight. The attention is on Starship V3, the largest and most powerful version…
Earth may be observed from the moon instead of orbital satellites in the future (AI-generated) Scientists are beginning to read Earth in a different way, not from orbit, but from the surface of the moon. A recent study,“Spherical Harmonic Fingerprints Characterize Moon-Based Disk-Integrated Earth’s Emitted Radiation Signatures”, outlines how lunar-based observations can capture a broad…
China’s new soft robot can float, crawl and walk through spaces others cannot (Image Source – Bioinspired growable humanoid robot with bone-mimetic linkages for versatile mobility/Research article) A lightweight humanoid robot developed by researchers in China does not behave in the way most robots do. It stretches, shrinks, and changes its outline depending on where…
Voyager 1 will be one light-day from Earth by the end 2026 (Image Credit – NASA) Voyager 1 keeps moving farther from Earth than any human-made object. Launched in 1977, it flew by Jupiter and Saturn, sending back images and information that changed our understanding of the outer planets. It left the asteroid belt early…
Snow looks white in the way salt, sugar, or crushed ice looks white. Obvious at first glance. Almost boring. But if you stop and think about it for a second, it feels a little strange. Snow is frozen water. Ice is clear. Water is clear. So where does all that whiteness come from? It doesn’t…
Source: State Museum of Prehistory Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze disc seems simple at first glance. A bronze circle. Gold inlays. Stars and moons. But experts say it could be the world’s oldest “astronomy app.” People back in the…
