Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: DTE   Context: Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope   About MeerKAT: MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Afr…

An extraordinary achievement.

Scientists have discovered that the Moon is drifting away from the Earth at a rapid pace, and it's having a serious impact on how long our days are.

Johns Hopkins University researchers have discovered that the protein histone H3 in roundworm chromosomes influences cell differentiation and pluripotency, challenging traditional views on heredity and potentially offering insights into cancer-related mutatio…

We have all heard about dinosaurs and seen them in movies. Yes, dinosaurs used to exist once upon a time, and we have seen about them only in stories and films. In such a situation, very few people know how the dinosaurs ended. Yes, in films and stories, dino…

Putting together around 90,000 photographs of the Sun, astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel captured a dazzling fiery show.

Axiom Space and NASA officials on Thursday said a special mission will head to the International Space Station in May. Two Saudi astronauts will be on board.

May 2, 2023: Venus sparkles in the western evening sky after sunset, along with a bright gibbous moon in the southeast.

As soon as astronauts arrive in microgravity, blood, and other body fluids are pushed "upward" from the legs and abdomen toward the heart and head. This

Scientists are using living materials to make machines that some would regard as alive… and now they’ve started to replicate

Newcastle upon Tyne, Apr 8 (The Conversation) The Antarctic Ice Sheet, which covers an area greater than the US and Mexico combined, holds enough water to raise...

The study, published in Nature Communications, shows therapeutic promise in a third type of fat, a subtype of WAT: beige fat. Beige fat has the same cellular precursors as white fat and the same thermogenic properties as brown fat, which means it helps to red…

A Nobel laureate believes the ‘ChatGPT revolution’ opens the door to a four-day week by providing a major productivity boost for many jobs

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for 8th April features a Spiral Galaxy captured by Hubble Space Telescope, which is composed of a staggering over 100 billion stars.

The gravitationally bound pair was seen blazing away in two merging galaxies and existed 10 billion years ago, when the universe was only 3 billion years old.

With a mass of around three-quarters of our Sun crammed into a ball that could sit comfortably inside Manhattan, the compact object XMMU J173203.3-344518 is certainly remarkable.

The blast, known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), was first picked up by sensors on veteran spacecraft Voyager 1 last October, only arriving at Earth 19 hours later. It was then detected by several gamma-ray space telescopes, such as NASA's Swift and Ferm

The rover is exploring the top of Jezero Crater’s delta.

Radio signals have revealed an earth-like planet only "12 light years away" and is a “great place to look for life” says ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist B...

Millimeter-wave technologies assist in examining 'light' dark matter. Scientists at Kyoto University have developed an experimental method to examine ultra-light dark matter by observing its gravitational effects on visible matter. Using millimeter-wave sensi…

Before humans started heating the planet by burning fossil fuels in the 19th century, Earth had experienced centuries-long widespread cool period known as

Abstract. Most stars in our Galaxy form in stellar aggregates, which can become long-lived structures called open clusters (OCs). Along their dynamical evolutio

More than 200 years ago, the English scientist Thomas Young carried out a famous test known as the “double-slit experiment”. He shone a beam of light at a

Maureen Long is Chair of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University.

Sometimes, in the everyday hustle-bustle of being, it’s easy to forget you are living a miracle.