Science

While space agencies are making significant preparations for long-term missions to the Moon and Mars, a fundamental human query is emerging: can life be initiated outside of Earth? While space travel has progressed significantly, human reproduction in space is an unexplored area of uncertainty. Scientists are using animal research, lab experiments, and space missions to…

NASA’s Artemis II mission will allow humanity to return to the lunar frontier as we near the end of decades-long silence (since the Apollo era). Launching from Kennedy Space Centre on April 1, 2026, this historic mission will be the first crewed Luna flight in more than 50 years; it will be a long-duration (10-day)…

Imagine a world where your fitness tracker or smart watch never needs to be recharged, not because it has a battery that never dies, but simply because your body provides the power it needs to function. In a breakthrough scientific achievement, a group of Japanese scientists have created a wearable device that uses the electricity…

“I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years.” The remark by Wilbur Wright now reads less like doubt and more like a reminder of how rapidly human ambition can outpace expectation. Just two years later, on a cold December morning in 1903, he and…

The ground below us seems so steady and also unvarying; however, the Earth is a chaotic, bustling work of art. It may have diminishing oceans, and its moon may be drifting at a snail’s pace, but all the while, our planet is under the influence of geological and astronomical forces that are constantly altering the…

A recent study linked to a powerful earthquake near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has offered a closer look at how tsunamis begin beneath the ocean surface. Using data from the SWOT (satellite) mission, researchers were able to detect subtle wave patterns forming close to the earthquake source. These signals carry clues about how the seafloor shifted…

Earth’s internal structure continues to reveal details that reshape established scientific explanations about the planet’s formation. One such development concerns the origin and distribution of water. For decades, the dominant explanation suggested that water was delivered to Earth by icy comets during its early history. Geological and seismic research, however, presents a more intricate picture….

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking binary system, ZTF J1239+8347, which is a record-breaking case of two ‘failed stars’ (brown dwarfs) in a 57-minute orbital death spiral that may result in the formation of a new star. The results were published in a study on arXiv that was led by Samuel Whitebook of Caltech. The brown…

Isaac Newton is known as one of the most important scientists in history, yet much of his personal life remains surprisingly unknown. He is remembered for gravity, the laws of motion, and calculus, but there was far more to Newton than the textbooks tell us. He had unusual habits, secret studies, and extreme work routines….

The race is on to save one of NASA’s most important space telescopes from a looming 90 per cent re-entry risk. Currently trapped in a ‘death spiral’ caused by increased solar activity, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has fallen to an altitude of 400 kilometres. To save the Swift spacecraft from a fiery crash, NASA…