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Neil deGrasse Tyson rejected moon-landing denial, citing physics, Saturn V calculations, and decades of independently studied lunar samples/ Screengrab YouTube Moon-landing denial remains a recurring feature of online culture, resurfacing whenever distrust in institutions collides with viral media. That dynamic played out again during a recent episode of the Impaulsive, where astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson…

Lightning sits at the boundary between routine weather and sudden hazard. It appears briefly, illuminates a landscape, and vanishes before the eye adjusts, yet its physical effects persist in scarred trees, damaged wiring, and recorded injuries. Advances in detection now allow individual discharges to be tracked across wide regions, revealing patterns that were once invisible….

People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It is an understandable question, especially for children, because the Sun feels permanent, like something that has always been there. Each morning it rises, warms the planet, and quietly shapes life without much attention. Yet…

There is a moment most people recognise. A phone battery dips into the red. A charger is reached for without much thought. Lithium sits quietly inside that habit. It powers mornings, commutes, work calls, and late-night scrolling, yet rarely earns attention of its own. Only when headlines mention shortages or mining protests does it briefly…

It is one of those small irritations that quietly follows people through supermarket aisles. A single cucumber, sealed in clear plastic, sits among piles of fruit that seem to manage just fine without it. The reaction is often immediate. This cannot be good for the environment. Plastic is everywhere already, in rivers, soil, and even…

Talk of Mars often jumps straight to rockets and boots on red soil, but much of the work happens quietly, long before any crew arrives. In meeting rooms, laboratories, and control centres, scientists are already using robotic missions in space to solve small, stubborn problems that humans will one day face. How much radiation reaches…

While the world slowly passed the first days of the year 2026, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station had already lived through the coming of the New Year in a way and a place few people would ever experience. While people on the planet celebrated the coming of the year 2026 once at midnight,…

For years, the future was imagined in clean lines and loud machines. Flying cars, metal suits, glowing weapons. None of it prepared many people for the idea that espionage might crawl rather than fly. And yet, in a small corner of Germany’s tech scene, insects have become part of a serious conversation about defence and…

China’s Shenzhou-20 mission faced an unexpected interruption after a crack was discovered in the return capsule window, immediately before the crew was due to depart from the Tiangong space station. The astronauts departed after a six-month mission filled with routine maintenance and experiments aboard the station. Pre-flight inspections were by the book until a fault…

At first, there was nothing dramatic about the galaxy. ESO 130 G012 sits relatively close by cosmic standards, about 55 million light-years from Earth. It is an edge-on spiral with a steady but unremarkable pace of star formation. Nothing about it suggested spectacle. But while astronomers were slowly scanning radio images from Australia’s ASKAP telescope,…

Saudi Arabia plans to plant 10 billion trees, rehabilitating 74.8 million hectares across deserts under the Saudi Green Initiative nationwide/ Image: earth.com In a country where nearly 95 per cent of the land is desert, sand is not just terrain, it is culture. Bedouin life, camel routes, oases and long crossings have shaped Saudi Arabia’s…

Mars often feels finished. Mapped, scanned, labelled in broad strokes. Yet every so often, something unsettles that sense of familiarity. A shadow where none was expected. A shape that does not fit earlier categories. Researchers studying satellite images noticed a small cluster of openings in a remote Martian region that did not behave like known…

The night sky has a habit of slipping into the background during quieter years. Fewer headline events pass overhead, and attention moves on. That calm is set to break in 2026. The year opens with a concentrated run of eclipses and planetary gatherings that arrive close enough together to feel connected rather than isolated. Some…

The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, not long after humans settled the islands and radically changed the ecosystems. The largest species were more than three meters tall and had a major ecological role long before the Polynesian hunters caused…

BENGALURU: Scientists from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) reported an advance in the long quest to move electronics beyond silicon, by creating molecular-scale devices that can adapt their behaviour and perform multiple computing functions within the same material.In a study that brings together chemistry, physics, and electrical engineering, the IISc team has demonstrated tiny electronic…

The venom of black widow spiders can cause an array of symptoms in humans. (Image credit: Kimberly Hosey/Getty Images) Most encounters with black widow spiders happen by accident, a hand in a shed, a brush against a web. In one rare and extreme case documented by clinicians, a woman deliberately introduced black widow venom directly…

Dreams of space travel often start with rockets and starry views, not dental chairs. Yet for astronauts, small and ordinary parts of the body can become serious concerns once Earth is far behind. Shubhanshu Shukla, the first Indian to travel to the International Space Station, recently spoke about one such detail that rarely makes headlines….

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective understanding of our planet and our place within our galaxy on its head. Ranging from finding a rare interstellar comet passing through our solar system to hints that point towards signs of past life on…

January tends to pass quietly for most people, but above Earth, it rarely does. The International Space Station keeps moving, orbit after orbit, while small changes continue to shape its future. Early in the year, two planned spacewalks will take place outside the station, part routine work, part long-term preparation. Before any astronaut steps outside,…

17-year-old boy in the Netherlands temporarily lost the ability to speak his native Dutch after waking from knee surgery/ Representative image When a 17-year-old boy in the Netherlands woke up from routine knee surgery, hospital staff initially noticed something unusual but not alarming. Instead of speaking Dutch, his native language, he was communicating only in…