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ISRO Chairman Dr. V. Narayanan made a historic announcement, declaring 2025 the ‘Gaganyaan Year’ as India enters a new era of human spaceflight aspirations. Addressing a function in Kolkata, Narayanan projected ISRO’s aggressive agenda for the next few years, comprising several human and robotic missions, a space station, and historic international collaborations.With the announcement, ISRO…

Recent heightened activity on the Sun has raised urgent concerns among scientists and emergency management agencies worldwide. A series of powerful X-class solar flares — the most intense category of solar radiation — has triggered warnings about Earth’s vulnerability to potentially devastating space weather events. These flares have originated from the exceptionally active sunspot AR4087,…

NASA and SpaceX have officially rescheduled the undocking of the Dragon cargo capsule from the International Space Station (ISS) to May 23, after poor weather conditions at the splashdown site prompted a delay. Originally planned for May 22, the departure is now set for 12:05 p.m. EDT on Friday. The capsule, part of the CRS-32…

Scientists have identified Ikaria wariootia, a tiny, wormlike creature that lived over 555 million years ago, as the earliest known bilaterian — an animal with a front, back, and symmetrical sides. Detailed in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this discovery from South Australia provides crucial evidence for a major evolutionary leap…

Image source: https://cdn.lanl.gov/464be327-e962-49a5-bffe-c3021221660c.jpg https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQr66pBdoGUTmidzDAJwv60y8ljFRSqYUV0Jw&s In the remote forests of South Dakota, a state-of-the-art laboratory is where scientists are examining one of the deepest puzzles of physics: the reason behind the existence of the universe. Along with them, a rival team in Japan which is currently years ahead is also pursuing the same question, setting the…

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a remarkable cache of 5,000-year-old wine jars, many still sealed, in the tomb of Queen Meret-Neith at Abydos. This extraordinary discovery offers one of the oldest direct links to early winemaking in human history. Led by Christiana Köhler of the University of Vienna, the excavation provides new insights into how…

A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of Cambridge and Columbia University proposes a futuristic but feasible method for lunar travel: space elevators. Rather than relying on expensive, fuel-hungry rockets, this new approach envisions a thin, ultra-strong cable stretching from the moon to Earth’s orbit. This “spaceline” could dramatically reduce mission costs and energy…

Recent breakthroughs in satellite and environmental sensing technology have introduced a promising method for detecting volcanic unrest by monitoring changes in vegetation health from space. This innovative approach, supported by in-field data from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s AVUELO (Airborne Validation Unified Experiment: Land to Ocean) mission, enhances early warning systems for volcanic eruptions. By…

BENGALURU: Even as the failure analysis committee (FAC) set up to look into the May 18 PSLV failure prepares for its first formal meeting, details about the defective valve that affected India’s NV-02 navigation satellite, launched on Jan 29, have emerged, confirming that the satellite is only partially operational.In an official response to queries under…

On Monday, after news broke of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, author Manu Joseph shared a striking memory. Narlikar, known for questioning the Big Bang theory, once told him, “Chai took longer.” It was the second-most interesting tea-related analogy about the universe since Russell’s teapot, which sought to shift the burden of…