The asteroid Bennu is an ancient carbonaceous asteroid that has rocks and dusts from the birth of the solar system. It was thought that study of a sample from the asteroid Bennu collected directly in space would shed light on...
Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in China has successfully maintained a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation for 1,066 seconds breaking its own earlier record of 403 seconds achieved in 2023.
On 20 January 2025, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)...
ISRO has successfully demonstrated space docking capability by joining together two spacecrafts (each weighing about 220 kg) in space.
Space docking creates an airtight passage for safe transfer of material or crew between two spacecrafts. This is a critical...
Multiple trackways with about 200 dinosaur footprints have been discovered on a quarry floor in Oxfordshire. These dates to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago). There are five trackways of which four were made by the herbivore...
Parker solar probe has sent signal to Earth today on 27 December 2024 confirming its safety following its closest approach to Sun on 24 December 2024 at the distance of 3.8 million miles. It made the flyby at a...
Fusarium xylarioides, a soil-borne fungus causes “Coffee wilt disease” that has a history of causing significant damages to coffee crops. There were outbreaks of the disease in 1920s which were managed appropriately. However, the disease re-merged in due course...
ESA’s PROBA-3 mission, which lifted off on ISRO’s PSLV-XL rocket on 5 December 2024, is a “solar eclipse-making" two satellite formation of occulter and the coronagraph spacecrafts. It will enable observation of solar corona by coronagraph spacecraft for 6...
Big Bang produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter which should have annihilated each other leaving behind an empty universe. However, matter survived and dominates the universe while antimatter vanished. It is thought that some unknown difference in basic...
One of key milestones in the story of human civilisation is development of a system of writing based on symbols representing sounds of a language. Such symbols are called alphabets. The alphabetic writing system uses a finite number of symbols...
In the new mid-infrared image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the Sombrero galaxy (technically known as Messier 104 or M104 galaxy) appears more like an archery target, instead of wide-brimmed Mexican hat Sombrero as it appeared in...
Genetic study based on ancient DNA extracted from the skeletal remains embedded in the Pompeii plaster casts of the victims of volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE contradicts traditional interpretations about the victims’ identities and relationships. Study...
Particle accelerators are used as research tools for the study of very early universe. Hadron colliders (particularly CERN’s Large Hadron Collider LHC) and electron-positron colliders are in forefront in exploration of very early universe. The ATLAS and CMS experiments...
The thylacine de-extinction project announced in 2022 has achieved new milestones in generation of the highest quality ancient genome, marsupial genome editing and new assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) for marsupials. These advancements will not only support resurrection of Tasmanian...
NASA has successfully launched Clipper mission to Europa into space on Monday 14 October 2024. Two-way communication has been established with the spacecraft since its launch and the current reports suggest that Europa Clipper is operating as expected and...
One half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design”. The other half has been awarded jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction”.
The Nobel...
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun “for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation”.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) belong to a family of small, non-coding,...
The researchers have, for the first time, tracked the evolution of solar wind from its inception at the Sun to its impact on the near-Earth space environment and have also shown how a space weather event can be predicted...
Study of image taken by the JWST has led to discovery of a galaxy in the early universe about a billion years after the big bang whose light signature is attributed to its nebular gas outshining its stars. Now...
Roscosmos cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko and NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, have returned to Earth from International Space Station (ISS). They left the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft and made a parachute-assisted landing in Kazakhstan on...
The researchers at CERN have succeeded in observing quantum entanglement between “top quarks” and at the highest energies. This was first reported in September 2023 and since confirmed by a first and second observation. The pairs of “top quarks” produced...
In September 2023, uniform single frequency seismic waves were recorded at centres across the globe which lasted for nine days. These seismic waves were very much unlike waves generated by earthquake or volcano hence how they were formed remained...
10th edition of the Science Summit at 79th United Nations General Assembly (SSUNGA79) will be held from the 10th to the 27th of September 2024 in New York City.
The main theme of the summit is the contribution of...
Matter has dual nature; everything exists both as particle and wave. At a temperature close to absolute zero, the wave nature of atoms become observable by radiation in visible range. At such ultracold temperatures in nanoKelvin range, the atoms...
The APXC instrument aboard the lunar rover of ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 moon mission conducted in-situ spectroscopic study to ascertain abundance of elements in the soil around the landing site in south polar region of the Moon. This was the first...
Spectral analysis of luminous galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 based on observations made in January 2024 revealed a redshift of 14.32 which makes it the most distant galaxy known (previous most-distant galaxy known was JADES-GS-z13-0 at the redshift of z = 13.2). It...