Last week, India landed its spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on the moon, becoming the first country to land such a craft near the south pole, where scientists belie...
When times get lean, male spiders may cheat more when wooing females by offering them worthless gifts of leftovers or dry leaves, rather than tasty food.
Facts for Prelims (FFP) Source: TH Context: Scientists have known of somatic variants for many years, but recently there has been an explosion in the amount of data. While DNA replication during cell division is generally accurate, errors occur at an estim…
RNA viruses use elements of their genomic RNA to commandeer the host translational machinery. Here, the authors use NMR and cryo-EM to reveal the sophisticated strategy by which a viral RNA engages host translational factors in a dynamically regulated two-sit…
A video that is going viral online captures people waiting in queue to watch Saturn through a telescope. Many shared their reactions after watching the video. | Trending
Opinion | The crash of Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft on the surface of the Moon on Aug. 19 marked the Roscosmos space agency’s latest unsuccessful attempt to explore interplanetary space.
NASA recently shared an image of NGC 653 which is located in an empty patch of space called the 'Local Void'. NGC 6503 is 18 million light-years away from Earth in the northern constellation of Draco.
The scheduled launch of the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) and the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) onboard the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 47 (H-IIA F47) on August 28, 2023, has been scrubbed due to the fact that the upper winds did no…
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov arrived at the International Space Station as the SpaceX D…
Viral video: When queried about the shape of the Earth, he offers a surprising perspective by asserting that the Earth is not round or flat but rather "stuck" in a fixed position.
For the first time, orchids that consume fungi have been observed offering their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in return for pollination services. This discovery represents the first evidence of nursery pollination in orchids. This unique new plant-anim…
Beyond the Light exhibition, a collaboration between Artechouse gallery in New York and Nasa, explores universe through immersive technology-driven art
Water, and increased availability of elements such as oxygen, iron, silicon, hydrogen and titanium have been the major attractions for the scientists aiming to return to the Moon