Total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026 A total lunar eclipse, also called a “Blood Moon,” will happen in the sky on March 3, 2026. During totality, the Moon can look reddish. When the Earth gets in the way of the Sun and the Moon, it blocks direct sunlight from reaching the Moon’s surface. This…
With a long background in drug development, Suma Krishnan emerged as one of the most influential innovators in modern biotechnology. In her late forties, she began questioning a basic assumption in gene therapy. Why did treatment always have to be injected into the body. She believed genetic medicine could be applied directly to the skin….
Bill Gates is building an ‘artificial sun’ that could replace coal in the US The old coal plant is gone. Something very different is planned in its place. The twin smokestacks of the Bull Run Fossil Plant in Claxton, Tennessee, were demolished after more than six decades. That coal plant used fossil fuels to generate…
Elon Musk says SpaceX could launch Starship ‘every hour in 3 years’ (Source: The New York Times) SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has said the company’s next-generation Starship rocket could launch as often as once every hour within three years. The comment came during a discussion on X about the company’s growing launch schedule in…
Seeing the Earth from space never gets old. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman recently shared a breathtaking time-lapse video that seems to capture the planet in all its glory. Filmed during SpaceX’s CRS-33 mission, the clip compresses hours of orbital movement into a few magical seconds. Lightning storms flicker, sunsets blaze, stars twinkle, and the Moon…
Sir Isaac Newton (Image source: Wikipedia) Sir Isaac Newton is widely remembered as one of history’s greatest scientists, best known for his laws of motion and work on gravity. However, less commonly discussed is the fact that Newton spent decades studying theology, biblical texts, and historical chronology. A large part of his writing was not…
“Boomerang” earthquake: The earthquake that can turn around and strike the same area again Earthquakes are generally understood to rupture outward from their starting point beneath the ground, sending seismic waves along a fault line in one or two directions. New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that, in certain conditions, a rupture…
Moon mission delayed again as NASA faces fresh Artemis II technical trouble (Image Source – NASA) NASA is working through a technical issue affecting the Artemis II rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft remain on the launch pad at Complex 39B. Engineers observed an interruption in…
Source: National Geographic The Moon is about to get its own brain. For the first time, real-time artificial intelligence and edge computing have been installed on a lunar rover. The milestone might not make headlines like a rocket launch, but it is huge. 384,400 kilometres from Earth, machines will soon process data instantly, analysing sensor…
Nasa’s Artemis II mission, which recently completed a wet dress rehearsal and was targeting an early March launch window, may now face delays after engineers detected an interruption in helium flow in the rocket. A day after announcing that its ambitious moon mission successfully completed the wet dress rehearsal, Nasa shared overnight observations on Saturday…
