Early risers along Florida’s Space Coast were treated to something unusual on Wednesday morning. As the first light of dawn crept over the Atlantic, a rocket streaked into the sky and left behind a glowing cloud that looked almost otherworldly. For a few minutes, the shape drifting across the sky resembled a giant jellyfish floating…
Mars once had beaches like Earth (Image source: Canva) For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had a large ocean. Images from orbiters have shown valleys, channels and features that look like dried riverbeds. However, clear proof of an ancient ocean has remained difficult to confirm. China’s Zhurong Mars rover has sent back new…
The ground at Yellowstone does not always move quietly, and sometimes it waits for years before suddenly coming back to life. That is exactly what has happened at Echinus Geyser, the world’s largest acidic geyser, which has erupted again after nearly six years of relative silence. Visitors at Yellowstone National Park are once more witnessing…
Dark oxygen discovered under the Pacific Ocean (Image source: AI-generated) For decades, school textbooks have explained that oxygen on Earth is mainly produced through photosynthesis, a process that depends on sunlight. Plants, algae, and some bacteria use light to turn water and carbon dioxide into oxygen. But a new study of the deep sea has…
Can crickets really tell the temperature (Image source: Canva) On a warm summer night, when everything else grows quiet, the air begins to buzz with a steady rhythm. Crickets chirp from the bushes, from tree branches, from somewhere you can’t quite see. It feels like background noise until you realise those chirps are doing more…
A Nobel Prize-winning chemist has unveiled a solar-powered machine capable of extracting up to 1,000 litres of clean drinking water per day from dry desert air, a breakthrough that could reshape how the world tackles water scarcity. Professor Omar Yaghi, a materials scientist at University of California, Berkeley, developed the system using metal-organic frameworks, or…
NASA to analyze fermented food samples from space (Image source: nasa.gov) NASA is running a new scientific study on the International Space Station (ISS) to understand how certain fermented foods and useful nutrients behave in space. This research is part of a larger effort to prepare for long missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond….
NASA reveals how a lunar eclipse looks from the Moon (Image source: Canva) When people on Earth watch a lunar eclipse, they see the Moon slowly move into Earth’s shadow and turn reddish for a short time. It is a familiar sight for skywatchers. But have you ever wondered how a lunar eclipse looks from…
Why the Moon turns red during a total lunar eclipse It can be very dramatic when the Moon slowly gets darker and then turns a deep red. People have been afraid of this sight for hundreds of years. A lot of old cultures thought it was a sign of bad things to come. Science gives…
Total Lunar Eclipse (Image source: Canva) Tomorrow, a spectacular event in the sky will happen that will amaze skywatchers all over the world. PTI News says that there will be a total lunar eclipse, which is the last chance to see this kind of event until 2029. When the Earth is in the way of…
For centuries, the forests of western Himalayas have quietly recorded every wet spring and every failed one. This record can be found in the rings trees form annually. If winter and spring precipitation is good, the trees grow wider rings. When it fails, the rings narrow.And when scientists studied this ancient data, one year stood…
For long, it has been a puzzle: How did chins form in humans? We’re the only primates to have the protrusion, a small piece of bone extending from the jaw. Even our closest relatives – the extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans – didn’t have chins. Sure, they walked on two legs, were known to have complex…
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has completed transportation of its antenna to be installed at the telemetry, tracking and command (TTC) for the station it is setting up in Australia’s Cocos (Keeling) Island for tracking of the Gaganyaan orbital module.TOI was the first to report that Isro and the Australian Space Agency (ASA)…
Stephen Hawking quote of the day Stephen Hawking remains one of the most widely read scientists in the world, not only because of his work on black holes and cosmology, but also because of how he spoke about life. Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease when he was 21 years old. He lived with…
About 27 million tons of Saharan dust deliver roughly 22,000 tons of phosphorus to the Amazon annually/ Image: NASA In 2015, scientists reported evidence that vast plumes of dust from the Sahara Desert help replenish phosphorus in the Amazon rainforest, linking the world’s largest desert to its largest rainforest through what researchers described as one…
PC: New York Times and Space NASA is shaking up its Artemis programme. The agency had originally planned a simple sequence: Artemis II would fly around the Moon, then Artemis III would attempt a lunar landing in 2028. But it seems things aren’t so straightforward. Now Artemis III will stay closer to Earth first, with…
New Delhi: For many people, ageing brings small lapses in memory. A forgotten name, a misplaced key. For others, memory loss becomes something more serious. Yet, some in their 80s remain as sharp as they were decades earlier.A paper published in the journal, ‘Nature’, suggests one reason for this may lie deep inside the brain’s…
NEW DELHI: After a year marked by an early and sharp rise in flu cases in several countries, India is set to update its seasonal influenza vaccine to deal with a fast-spreading new strain, reports Anuja Jaiswal.The WHO has issued its annual recommendations for the 2026–27 northern hemisphere flu season, based on global surveillance data…
This weekend, if the clouds give way, skywatchers in the UK might be in for a treat. Six planets are reportedly gathering in the evening sky, creating what astronomers call a planetary parade. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter will be visible without any equipment, while Uranus and Neptune might need binoculars or a telescope.During a…
NASA’s Space Umbrella Project: Earth’s magnetic field vs. solar winds (Image source: NASA) There is a constant outward flow of charged particles from the Sun. This flow, known as the solar wind, moves across space and reaches Earth every day. When it arrives, it meets the planet’s magnetic field, an invisible region that bends and…
