Science

Imagine watching the Moon from Earth and knowing that your name is physically travelling around it on a real spacecraft. A tiny piece of your identity traveling through deep space, circling our closest celestial neighbour, and returning home after a historic journey. NASA has opened this extraordinary opportunity for people worldwide through the upcoming Artemis…

The first day of December 2025 has brought a striking surge in solar activity, prompting renewed scientific attention to the relationship between the Sun’s magnetic behaviour and the technological systems that depend on stable conditions in near-Earth space. An unexpected X2-class flare erupted during the early hours of the morning, offering a reminder of how…

Life often finds surprising ways to adapt, even in places where survival seems impossible. Inside the abandoned ruins of Chernobyl’s destroyed nuclear reactor, scientists discovered a strange black fungus that not only survives extreme radiation but appears to grow toward it and possibly use it for energy. Scientists working with NASA’s space biology teams and…

The December 2025 full moon, widely called the Cold Moon, promises one of the year’s most striking lunar displays. This supermoon will appear larger and brighter than most other full moons, reaching an unusually high point in the sky for observers in the Northern Hemisphere. Its proximity to Earth during perigee enhances its size, making…

Source: Scientific American The European Space Agency is moving ahead with one of its most ambitious missions yet. It is planning a dedicated journey to Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, a world believed to hold a vast ocean beneath its frozen crust. This mission, set for launch in the 2040s, will use both an orbiter and…

More than 300 years between 614–911 AD were allegedly fabricated by Otto III, Pope Sylvester II and possibly Constantine VII. Most of us can’t agree on much these days, but we can at least agree it’s the year 2025. Or can we? A fringe historical theory insists we’re actually living in 1726, and that roughly…

The Afar region in northeastern Africa represents one of the few locations on Earth where a new ocean may be forming over the next several million years. Situated at a unique triple junction where the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and East African Rift converge, Afar offers scientists a rare opportunity to observe the processes…

Red Spider Nebula (Image credits: Nasa) Nasa has released a new image of the Red Spider Nebula, revealing never-before-seen details of NGC 6537. Captured with the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), the image shows the nebula with remarkable clarity, its full structure stretched across a dense backdrop of thousands of stars. The European…

Many men only notice the scrotal raphe by chance, often mistaking it for a scar or a surgical line/ Representational AI Image Plenty of men only notice it by accident, often during a long shower or a curious moment later in life, a pale, raised, seam-like line running down the middle of the scrotum that…

When scientists want to understand how the human brain really works, they often turn to carefully controlled experiments. But a growing group of researchers, including neuroscientists at Princeton University who pioneered the use of films in brain-scanning studies, is taking a far more surprising approach. Instead of flashing simple shapes or static images, they are…