Israel's first lunar mission put spacecraft Beresheet into orbit in 2019. Here's what happened nextBeresheet was Israel’s first lunar mission and the first attempt by a private company to land a spacecraft on the Moon. The mission did not...
08 Oct, 2026, 09.20 PM IST
Aurora Borealis alert: Northern Lights could reach New York and Idaho, but one Solar detail will decide the showThe Northern Lights forecast looks promising, but seeing the Aurora Borealis is never guaranteed. Much depends on the magnetic orientation ...
07 Oct, 2026, 11.31 PM IST
India’s Nobel kept on ice?Challenges in India’s research ecosystem hinder the development of scientific talent and innovation. Stable funding and support for researc...
07 Oct, 2026, 08.25 AM IST
How 90 Claude Opus 5.5 agents found a 27-year-old compound in 3 days to solve computing's heat problemMore than 90 Claude Opus 5.5 agents spent three days searching for materials that could enable cooler spin-based computing. They identified...
06 Oct, 2026, 08.46 PM IST
What are 'ghost particles' that pass through your body every second? Francis Halzen wins Physics Nobel for catching them in South Pole iceFrancis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. This obser...
06 Oct, 2026, 05.19 PM IST
Type One Energy raises $200 million to develop world’s first commercial fusion reactorThe Series-B round, which takes total funding to-date to more than $400 million, is the third-biggest sector Series B raise over the last f...
06 Oct, 2026, 05.13 PM IST
A hidden magnetic force from the early universe may finally explain the Hubble tension and why cosmic expansion doesn’t add upRecent research investigates the role of primordial magnetic fields in the discrepancy of the Hubble constant values. Measurements of the c...
05 Oct, 2026, 05.59 PM IST
For the first time in astronomy, scientists detect radio signal from a young planetAstronomers have discovered notable radio signals originating from the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b, located 64 light-years away from our sola...
03 Oct, 2026, 02.39 PM IST
By 2014, 16,000 volunteers had traced solar eruptions across spacecraft images; 38,000 hand-drawn tracks helped scientists catalog 144 coronal mass ejectionsSolar Stormwatch involved over 16,000 volunteers who tracked solar eruptions using images from NASA's STEREO spacecraft. Participants marke...
01 Oct, 2026, 06.40 PM IST
Those giant numbers painted on US runways are not random: They tell pilots the direction they’re facing, with Runway 18 pointing roughly south and 9 eastRunway numbers at airports serve as compass indicators that relay the direction of a runway. The numerical designations evolve in response ...
30 Sep, 2026, 07.30 PM IST
In 2023, a spacecraft was launched to explore the largest planet in our solar system and its icy moons in depth. Eight years later, it will finally reach its targetESA’s JUICE mission will study Jupiter, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. The spacecraft will examine their oceans, geology, magnetic fields a...
30 Sep, 2026, 02.33 AM IST
Earth’s inner core may be deforming within years — scientists say its hidden movements could change the length of our daysEarth's rotation experiences slight variations in day length due to interactions within its inner core and mantle. Researchers have develop...
29 Sep, 2026, 10.01 PM IST
Could bacteria hold the secret to delaying death? Magnetic microbes extended worm lifespan by more than 43% in a new ageing studyResearchers at Hefei Institutes of Physical Science found that Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1 increased the lifespan of C. elegans by 43...
25 Sep, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
Mysterious radio bursts detected 63 light-years from Earth, well beyond our solar system: What scientists discovered about its sourceA newly reported radio signature from Beta Pictoris b is giving astronomers a rare way to investigate the magnetic environment of a planet ...
24 Sep, 2026, 01.14 AM IST
Strange radio signals detected from exoplanet almost 63 light-years from EarthResearchers have observed unusual radio signals from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet located 63 light-years away. These signals, detected usi...
23 Sep, 2026, 07.43 PM IST
A planet 63 light-years away is sending repeating radio bursts, and scientists can read them for the first time. Here’s what it reveals about the alien worldAstronomers detected repeating radio bursts from exoplanet Beta Pictoris b. These emissions originate from powerful auroras on the distant ...
22 Sep, 2026, 08.38 PM IST
In 2020, a Missouri Labrador disappeared after her family moved; Cleo travelled 57 miles back to the only house she still knewCleo, a lost dog, undertook an incredible 57-mile trek to an unknown home in Missouri, shedding light on theories surrounding canine naviga...
19 Sep, 2026, 02.50 PM IST