Artemis II crew’s 10-day trip around Earth and Moon — timeline of Nasa’s historic lunar mission Nasa’s Artemis II mission ended with a precise splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, capping a nearly 10-day journey that took four astronauts farther from Earth than any humans before. The Orion capsule “Integrity” parachuted into calm waters off California,…
Astronomers have proposed a theoretical model suggesting that the object at the centre of the Milky Way, widely identified as the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, could instead be explained by an extremely dense concentration of dark matter. The idea challenges the long-standing interpretation based on observations of fast-moving stars near the galactic core, which…
Indian-American space scientist Amit Kshatriya holds a senior leadership position at Nasa, an agency that has recently completed the Artemis II mission, a significant step in its renewed human lunar exploration programme.The Artemis II mission, a crewed lunar flyby, concluded with astronauts returning safely after a splashdown off the coast of San Diego, California at…
You walk into a room and suddenly feel every eye on you. Before you can even process what is happening, warmth rushes to your face. Your cheeks turn red, your skin tingles, and the more you think about it, the worse it gets. Blushing feels uncontrollable and often embarrassing, yet it is one of the…
Earlier, they held hands with each other; now, they raise them to kill one of their own. Ngogo chimpanzees, the world’s largest known group of wild chimpanzees who were once a close-knit community have been engaged in an eight-year-long vicious ‘civil war’ as per a recent research published in the journal Science. The group has…
Nasa scientists tracking the movement of Apollo 13 (Image/Nasa) For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are once again venturing to the Moon. Nasa’s Artemis program had sent four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a mission lasting nearly 10 days.The crew’s journey combined scientific exploration, technical testing and human endurance: a…
Quote of the day by Nikola Tesla It may seem strange to think deeply and slow down in a world where speed is often seen as a sign of success. But some of the most important inventions in history weren’t made quickly. They were carefully planned, improved, and polished long before they became real. This…
Stanley Milgram’s 1961–62 Yale University experiment tested obedience, where participants believed they delivered painful electric shocks to others under authority. In the early 1960s, a deceptively simple question took shape inside a laboratory at Yale University: how far would an ordinary person go if instructed by an authority figure to harm someone else? The answer,…
Image: Left/Canva/Right/AI Generated Plastic waste on a global level amounts to hundreds of millions of tonnes annually, although very little of that is recycled. On the other hand, corrosive waste such as spent battery acid from used cars is rendered neutral and disposed of. However, scientists now have devised an ingenious process that addresses both…
Although many people consider the cosmos to be a peaceful, stunning environment, the truth behind its appearance offers an incomprehensible universe with extreme events. For instance, there are the undead stars (or zombie stars) that consume energy from their star neighbours, and there are enormous galaxies that may contain thousands of Milky Ways. Therefore, the…
