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BENGALURU: More than a year after the setback to its navigation satellite programme, Isro on Wednesday released the findings of an apex committee that investigated why the NVS-02 spacecraft failed to reach its intended orbit on Jan 29, 2025.The committee, it said, traced the anomaly to a failure in the spacecraft’s pyro system. According to…

Source: Chandra X-Ray Observatory Astronomers have spotted something unusual. A star, much like our own Sun when it was young, is blowing a bubble through space. The star, called HD 61005, lies about 120 light-years from Earth. It seems ordinary at first glance. Same mass as the Sun, similar temperature. But it’s only around 100…

(Space.com and Wikipedia) Nambi Narayanan, a senior scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), had his career turned upside down by a false espionage case in 1994. At the time, he was leading India’s cryogenic rocket engine programme and trying to get technology from Russia. The accusations led to his arrest and jail time….

Total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026 A total lunar eclipse, also called a “Blood Moon,” will happen in the sky on March 3, 2026. During totality, the Moon can look reddish. When the Earth gets in the way of the Sun and the Moon, it blocks direct sunlight from reaching the Moon’s surface. This…

With a long background in drug development, Suma Krishnan emerged as one of the most influential innovators in modern biotechnology. In her late forties, she began questioning a basic assumption in gene therapy. Why did treatment always have to be injected into the body. She believed genetic medicine could be applied directly to the skin….

Bill Gates is building an ‘artificial sun’ that could replace coal in the US (AI-generated) The old coal plant is gone. Something very different is planned in its place. The twin smokestacks of the Bull Run Fossil Plant in Claxton, Tennessee, were demolished after more than six decades. That coal plant used fossil fuels to…

Elon Musk says SpaceX could launch Starship ‘every hour in 3 years’ (Source: The New York Times) SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has said the company’s next-generation Starship rocket could launch as often as once every hour within three years. The comment came during a discussion on X about the company’s growing launch schedule in…

Seeing the Earth from space never gets old. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman recently shared a breathtaking time-lapse video that seems to capture the planet in all its glory. Filmed during SpaceX’s CRS-33 mission, the clip compresses hours of orbital movement into a few magical seconds. Lightning storms flicker, sunsets blaze, stars twinkle, and the Moon…

Sir Isaac Newton (Image source: Wikipedia) Sir Isaac Newton is widely remembered as one of history’s greatest scientists, best known for his laws of motion and work on gravity. However, less commonly discussed is the fact that Newton spent decades studying theology, biblical texts, and historical chronology. A large part of his writing was not…

Moon mission delayed again as NASA faces fresh Artemis II technical trouble (Image Source – NASA) NASA is working through a technical issue affecting the Artemis II rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft remain on the launch pad at Complex 39B. Engineers observed an interruption in…