Cabinet Approves Chandrayaan-4: In a leap towards greater space exploration, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today said that India is heading towards its first manned mission to the Moon. Vaishnaw also announced that the Union Cabinet today approved the Chandrayaan-4 mission to the Moon. “Chandrayaan-4 mission has been expanded to add more elements. The next step […]
The September Harvest Moon, a partial lunar eclipse, will make its debut in the sky Monday evening and last through Thursday morning. The full moon will peak at 10:35 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, Sept. 17, according to NASA. The is the second of 2024’s four consecutive supermoons, following August’s blue supermoon, a rare phenomenon that […]
Sir David Attenborough has been presenting wildlife programmes for 70 years Seventy years after he first fronted a wildlife programme, Sir David Attenborough is keenly aware of the impact they can have. “The world would be in a far, far worse situation now had there been no broadcasting of natural history,” he said. “People have […]
NASA Work to build the International Space Station began in 1998 In June two American astronauts left Earth expecting to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS). But after fears that their Boeing Starliner spacecraft was unsafe to fly back on, Nasa delayed Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore’s return until 2025. They are […]
RMS Titanic / Getty The Titan sub was on a trip to see the wreck of the Titanic It was the submersible that promised passengers the trip of a lifetime. A chance to descend 3,800m (12,500ft) to the Atlantic depths to visit the wreck of the Titanic. But last year, a dive by Oceangate’s Titan […]
A tsunami stemming from a landslide in a Greenland fjord, caused by melting ice, was behind a surprising seismic event last year that shook the earth for nine days, a researcher told AFP on Friday. According to a report recently published in the scientific journal Science, tremors that were registered in September 2023 originated from […]
Jeff Kerby Scientists were able to pin down the location of the tsunami to a remote fjord in East Greenland A massive landslide in a Greenland fjord triggered a wave that “shook the Earth” for nine days. The seismic signal last September was picked up by sensors all over the world, leading scientists to investigate […]
In another SpaceX milestone, billionaire Jared Isaacman and company crew trainer Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside their Crew Dragon capsule early Thursday in the first privately-financed spacewalk in the history of space exploration. As he took in his first unobstructed look at the Earth 458 miles below, Isaacman marveled at the serene, boundary-free […]
BBC There’s nothing new about genetic engineering. By cross-breeding plants and animals, our Stone Age ancestors realised they could boost the amount of food they produced. Modern genetics has enabled scientists to do much more: to make precise, targeted changes to the DNA of organisms in a lab. And that, they claim, will lead to […]