NASA, in its latest update, revealed that it has made 'significant progress' in the efforts to completely deploy the Lucy spacecraft's jammed solar array. Launched in October last year, the spacecraf… [+1940 chars]
On the eve of this new era of moon landings, a slew of fresh studies of PSRs have revealed that these shadowed regions are even stranger than scientists imagined. What will we find lurking in the sha… [+5218 chars]
Photo: Skull of Centrosaurus, by Sainterx, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The recent find of a complete, well-preserved baby mammoth was greeted with gasps: Shes over 30,000 years old, and y… [+3434 chars]
Our view of Mars and its unexplored terrain will only expand in the coming years. With orbiters and rovers, our understanding has improved tremendously. With human missions, it'll even get better. R… [+1961 chars]
A solar storm that zoomed past Earth recently might create problems for satellites and the countrys power grid, experts say. The nearby solar eruption snowplowed dense plasma towards the Earth trigg… [+2081 chars]
Our sun, which has started its 11-year cycle, is in a very active phase and several reports cited that we will be witnessing frequent solar flares. Scientists have pointed out that these solar flares… [+1994 chars]
On Monday (July 4), Earth celebrates Independence Day by getting as far away from the sun as possible — reaching what astronomers call aphelion at 3 a.m. EDT (0700 GMT). At aphelion, Earth will be… [+1948 chars]
According to the publications in the 'Nature' journal, a recent study conducted by an international team of Francis Crick Institute's archaeologists and geneticists has found that a dog's ancestry ca… [+473 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope has found its new target, and it is the comets that race through the universe with an illuminated tail. Astronomers consider comets a key to understanding the early uni… [+1743 chars]
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that hawks control their flight to ensure the safest landing conditions when perching, even if it takes longer and more energy to do so. Understandi… [+3817 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope has found its new target, and it is the comets that race through the universe with an illuminated tail. Astronomers consider comets a key to understanding the early uni… [+1743 chars]
Mars can be an awfully windy place, it turns out. The Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet in February 2021 carrying, among other instruments, a weather station dubbed Mars Environmenta… [+3285 chars]