Artemis II astronauts are set to break the record for travelling the farthest distance from Earth to the Moon on a crewed mission, surpassing what Apollo 13 achieved by more than 4,100 miles (6,600 kilometers).During their journey, the four-member crew will spend about six hours flying around the Moon on Monday, capturing clear views of…
After years of extensive biological research, scientists identified at least 11 species new to science occupying the ruggedly divided limestone formations of the Battambang and Stung Treng regions in Cambodia. The researchers describe these remote, isolated outcroppings of limestone as ‘evolutionary laboratories,’ where organisms have evolved for millions of years independently of each other. Among…
ISRO’s MITRA mission is a new project initiated by the Indian Space Research Organisation to investigate the behaviour, performance, and dynamics of the crew in an environment that simulates space flight. The MITRA mission will be carried out in Leh, Ladakh, and the participants are put in environments where the presence of thin air, cold,…
Artemis II has entered deep space, marking a new phase in the return of human missions beyond Earth. The mission, led by NASA, has produced new images of Earth captured from beyond low Earth orbit. These photographs were taken from the Orion spacecraft as it travels towards the Moon. The visuals show Earth at a…
The Artemis II mission is now in one of the most highly anticipated stages, where the crew is traveling more than half the way towards the Moon. According to media reports, the team onboard the Orion spacecraft has already reached the stage of deep space, which exceeds any similar experience gained in recent times by…
Mars has been viewed as a multi-millennial effort to terraform since the inception of the term, but there is new evidence that the time frame has changed dramatically. A published study in Science Advances gives new hope to those wishing to terraform Mars through nanoscopic engineered aerosol-like dust particles made from iron and aluminium found…
The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon and preparing for a historic lunar fly-around, even as a recurring toilet malfunction inside the Orion capsule continues to pose challenges.The four-member crew, comprising three Americans and one Canadian, is expected to reach the moon on Monday, capturing images of the lunar far side…
A clinical study has delivered one of the clearest signs yet that gene therapy can restore hearing in people born with genetic deafness. Researchers led by Maoli Duan at Karolinska Institute treated ten patients aged between one and 24 with a rare form of congenital deafness caused by mutations in the OTOF gene. The findings,…
Meet Karen Jenner: The woman who has removed over 31,000 pounds of ocean waste along Canada’s wild coastlineAlong the rugged shores of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, one woman has quietly taken on a task most would consider impossible. Karen Jenner, a volunteer environmental advocate, has spent years walking remote stretches of coastline,…
Representative image (Picture credit: AP) As the US heads back towards the moon and public curiosity over UFOs grows again, a familiar question has returned: if intelligent life exists elsewhere, what would it make of humans?That debate has picked up fresh momentum after former President Barack Obama said in February that aliens are “real”, while…
