Science
Without men, women and sex: Scientists one step away from making human babies from a single cell
Soon, men and women won’t need each other to have babies. After creating human sperm from somatic cells like skin and blood and other non-germ cells, scientists are now just a step away from making human eggs in the lab
Planet X: Earth’s solar system may be hiding an extra planet
For a century, scientists have been confused by Uranus and Neptune's orbits. There has been a long held belief that a 9th, undiscovered planet may be influencing their orbit. Now, we have some proof that explains the planet's odd behaviour
SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket with a classified military payload for US Space Force
SpaceX launched two satellites for the US Space Force on their Falcon Heavy rocket. Later this week, they will also launch a Falcon 9 rocket, to launch 51 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.
For the love of Bond: Canadian Engineers make a drone that 'can see through walls' using WiFi
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have designed a drone that uses WiFi’s connection protocols to determine where devices such as mobile phones, smartwatches, laptops and tablets are located in a room and create a layout mapping the room.
Russia to launch new spacecraft to rescue astronauts from leaking Soyuz module, will bring back damaged module
The Soyuz MS-22 was supposed to bring back the cosmonauts from the ISS in March. However, it was hit by a micrometeorite causing a critical puncture. Russia will therefore send the Soyuz MS-23 on a rescue mission, and try to bring the Soyuz MS-22 back to Earth.
Watch: NASA shares images of the ‘Winter Wonderland’ Mars becomes as temperatures dip 123 degrees below zero
Watch: NASA shared a recent video taken by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL that showed what snow, frost, ice and a winter storm look like on Mars when the temperature dips 123 degrees Celsius below zero on the red planet.
New Horizon, New Frontiers: 2022 was a massive year for the space industry. 2023 will be even bigger
Starting from established players like NASA, SpaceX and ISRO to fledgling startups like Skyroot Aerospace, iSpace and many more, 2022 saw a lot of great developments in the global aerospace industry. 2023 is set to be more interesting thanks to the upcoming announcements and space missions.
A Christmas asteroid is approaching Earth. What is it and how scared should you be?
A Christmas asteroid, which is just about the size of the Statue of Liberty, is rapidly approaching Earth and the European Space Agency has challenged astronomers to spot the rock
US to keenly observe activity in space for potential risk as China increases activity in low Earth orbit
Last month, the Chinese space programme launched the final three modules of its Tiangong Space Station and stationed a crew of three astronauts for a brief period. China built its own space station with little to no help from any other country.
Elon Musk's Neuralink: Two neurosurgeons weigh in on the feasibility of Musk's brain implant and its potential
Elon Musk's Neuralink is being positioned as the next big thing that will completely change modern medicine if some people are to be believed. But what do medical professionals think about brain-computer interfaces or BCIs curing diseases such as blindness or paralysis?
What is Neurotechnology and Brain-Computer Interface, the tech that Elon Musk’s Neuralink uses?
While neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces have been around for decades, Elon Musk's Neuralink aims to package it into a coin-sized implant and take it to the masses. The implant would not only let humans interact with computers just through thought, but also augment the nervous system.
SpaceX inches closer to an orbital launch attempt, test-fires its Super Heavy rocket for its longest duration
The Elon-Musk-owned space organisation test-fired its Super Heavy rockets for about 12 seconds, making it the longest duration for which the massive booster has been fired. SpaceX hopes to make its orbital launch attempt in December, or early 2023.
Where did Earth's oxygen come from? New study hints at an unexpected source
The Archean Earth The Archean eon represents one third of our planet’s history, from 2.5 billion years ago to four billion years ago
India’s first private space launchpad, Agnikul, is set to give the aerospace industry a major boost
The Agnikul launchpad (ALP) and the Agnikul mission control centre (AMCC) are the two parts of the privately built launch facility and has been built inside ISRO’s campus at Sriharikota.
Humans will be living & working on the Moon by the end of this decade thanks to Artemis 1, says NASA
NASA is confident that if the Artemis 1 Mission is successful, they will be able to put astronauts on the moon for a long-term basis who are going to be living on the surface and do research by as early as 2024-2025.
China plans to send monkeys to the Tiangong space station to study how they reproduce in space
Believing that long-term space exploration will require such experiments, a team of Chinese scientists are planning to send macaque monkeys to the Tiangong Space Station and study how the reproduce.
Last Lunar Eclipse of 2022: Places, timing and everything you need to know
The total lunar eclipse will continue for a total duration of 45 minutes and 48 seconds. Only portions of eastern India can witness a total lunar eclipse, while the remainder of the country can only witness a partial eclipse.
China now has their own space station, successfully dock the final module of the Tiangong space station
The US govt. banned NASA from working with Beijing in 2011. The Chinese govt., in a span of two years, sent up the core module, three manned spacecraft, the Wentian lab module and several cargo spacecraft to build their own space station.
NASA plans on testing crash landing space module on Mars to make inter-planetary exploration cheaper
In a bid to make inter-planetary travel cheaper and more far-reaching, NASA is planning to test out crash landing onto the planet Mars with their newly designed SHIELD experimental lander.
For the first time, a black hole was caught "burping out" remnants of a star it devoured
For the first time, astronomers and scientists were able to observe a black hole spewing out unidentified materials back into space after it consumed a star in a process called TDE or Tidal Disruption Event.