A 140-foot asteroid is set to sweep past Earth today, and it seems everyone is taking notice. Astronomers have been tracking the space rock, officially named 2026 CU1, as it makes its high-speed journey through the inner solar system. It travels at nearly 18,803 miles per hour. Yet, NASA reassures us that it poses no…
NASA captures ‘heart-shaped’ lake glowing pink in Argentina ( Image Source – NASA) In the heat of the austral summer, a shallow salt lake in southern Argentina turns a muted shade of pink. The site, known as Salinas Las Barrancas, sits near the port city of Bahía Blanca. In January 2024, an astronaut aboard the…
NASA confirmed Mike Fincke of SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission needed a medical evacuation from the International Space Station. NASA described the situation as non-emergency, yet important enough to end the mission about a month early. The key issue was access to advanced medical imaging not available in orbit. The result was the first dedicated medical evacuation…
Meet the 4 Indian American $75,000 Winners Crowned 2026 Sloan Research Fellows In a celebration of scientific excellence and innovation, four Indian American researchers have been named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows, one of the most coveted early-career recognitions in science, mathematics and engineering. The annual Sloan Research Fellowship program, run by the Alfred P. Sloan…
A powerful telescope in Chile has captured a detailed new image of the centre of the Milky Way, released on Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory.The image focuses on a vast region of cold gas stretching more than 650 light-years across. The gas and dust clouds lie around the supermassive black hole at the centre…
Nasa on Wednesday announced that it has begun rolling its grounded Artemis II moon rocket and Orion spacecraft off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center for additional repairs, following the emergence of a new technical problem.The 322‑foot (98‑metre) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket had remained at Launch…
A mother and daughter have discovered what is now considered the world’s largest known coral colony on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.Sophie Kalkowski-Pope and her mother, Jan Pope, found the massive coral late last year while surveying the reef as part of the Great Reef Census, reported CNN. The initiative brings together more than…
BENGALURU: More than a year after the setback to its navigation satellite programme, Isro on Wednesday released the findings of an apex committee that investigated why the NVS-02 spacecraft failed to reach its intended orbit on Jan 29, 2025.The committee, it said, traced the anomaly to a failure in the spacecraft’s pyro system. According to…
Why you are taller in the morning and shorter at night If you have ever measured your height early in the morning and then again at night, the numbers may not match. Many people are surprised to learn that the human body is not the same height throughout the day. In fact, most people are…
Source: Chandra X-Ray Observatory Astronomers have spotted something unusual. A star, much like our own Sun when it was young, is blowing a bubble through space. The star, called HD 61005, lies about 120 light-years from Earth. It seems ordinary at first glance. Same mass as the Sun, similar temperature. But it’s only around 100…
