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On August 2, 2027, Saudi Arabia will experience a total solar eclipse lasting six minutes, 23 seconds/Representative Image Get ready for a sky like no other. On August 2, 2027, a total solar eclipse, the longest in a century, will sweep across Saudi Arabia, North Africa, and southern Spain, plunging daylight into an eerie twilight…

Daylight will fade, temperatures to drop and the world to fall into the ‘world of total darkness’. A celestial event for which skywatchers across the world are preparing to witness a rare once-in-a-lifetime event. In August 2027, the world is going to witness its rare longest solar eclipse in 100 years, which will experience 6…

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is back on Earth after eight months in space, wrapping up a mission packed with science and new experiences. He returned alongside Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, ending a journey that took them around the planet thousands of times. Their work wasn’t just for the sake of curiosity; they…

Urban air travel is finally getting real attention. Cities are desperate for better ways to move people and things, and electric air taxis and drones have gone from wild sci-fi ideas to actual plans. Now, engineers are working on small aircraft that can zip over traffic jams, carrying folks or packages across town in a…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, and it has refused to sit neatly in the…

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Nov. 30, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument Ever since 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July, it’s been the space object everyone argues about. It’s only the third interstellar visitor ever found passing through our Solar System, it refused to sit neatly in the “just another…

BENGALURU: More than a year after the most disruptive solar event in more than two decades, Indian scientists have pieced together why the May 2024 storm, now known as Gannon’s storm, struck Earth with such force. A new study in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters draws on observations from India’s Aditya-L1 satellite and six US…

Old airport security used Rapiscan backscatter scanners that showed fully detailed body images/ image:X If you’ve ever shuffled through an airport body scanner wondering how much the machine can actually see, you’re not alone. For a while, the answer was: far more than most travellers realised. And that’s exactly why the technology had to change….

BENGALURU: Fresh analysis of data from the Chandrayaan-3 lander has revealed that the plasma environment near the Moon’s southern high latitudes is far more active than earlier believed. The results, based on measurements collected between Aug 23, 2023 and Sept 3, 2023, mark the first direct observations of near-surface plasma at such low altitudes in…

Black holes capture the imagination of scientists and space enthusiasts because they represent the most extreme gravitational forces in the universe. NASA explains that anything approaching a black hole encounters enormous tidal forces that stretch and distort matter, and that time itself slows dramatically due to gravitational time dilation. According to NASA, if an object…