NASA said on Thursday it expects to announce on Saturday its decision on whether the two astronauts who rode Boeing’s glitchy Starliner spacecraft to the International...
SpaceX has marked a significant milestone by launching 22 new Starlink satellites into orbit, greatly expanding its global satellite network. The launch occurred on Tuesday, August...
Neuralink Corp., Elon Musk’s brain-computer company, said surgery for its second implant in a human “went well” and the patient is now able to design 3D...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is advancing its lunar exploration efforts with the upcoming Chandrayaan-4 and Chandrayaan-5 missions. ISRO Chairman S. Somanath confirmed that the...
The idea that the East African Rift System (EARS) is the exclusive cradle of humankind may be outdated. While much of our knowledge about early humans...
Brain ageing patterns that could be indicative of a neurodegenerative disease or brain atrophy have been discovered by a study. As many as five such patterns...
New research suggests that rocky exoplanets, particularly those that have hosted or still host magma oceans, could trap significant amounts of water deep within their cores....
Human ageing does not occur uniformly but instead accelerates significantly at around ages 44 and 60, claimed a new study. This research paper, published on August...
Japan is leading the way in sustainable food waste management through an innovative fermentation process. Koichi Takahashi, founder of the Japan Food Ecology Centre, has developed...
Researchers have made a significant breakthrough that may help save the world’s bananas from a disease threatening their existence. The disease in question, fusarium wilt, has...
Elon Musk, the influential figure behind SpaceX, has expressed a pragmatic view on the timeline for human colonization of Mars. Speaking at the Satellite 2020 conference,...
On August 19, 2024, Europe’s JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) spacecraft achieved a notable milestone in space exploration by performing a gravity assist flyby of the...
On August 15, 2024, NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project, driven by citizen scientists, uncovered an astonishing discovery: an object travelling at a staggering speed of...
On August 8, 2024, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) may have captured an unprecedented number of sunspots on the Sun’s surface. These sunspots, though they appear...
On August 16, 2024, ESA’s Φsat-2 satellite was successfully launched via SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. This mission marks a significant...
When a 10-year-old Tegan strolled along a beach in south Wales with her mother, she didn’t expect to make a prehistoric discovery. To their astonishment, Tegan...
Super Blue Moon, a rare astronomical event, occurred on August 19. The much anticipated event was seen in the night sky after almost a year, as...
A four-person crew for SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission arrived in Florida on Monday ahead of their August 26 launch to space for a mission that includes...
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a man and a woman in Pompeii, providing new insights into the tragic events of the city’s destruction during the...
Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have cast doubt on the long-held belief that asteroid 16 Psyche is the core remnant of a...