Tag: Sci-Tech

The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began. NASA’s Artemis II capsule returned to Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre on Tuesday (April 28, 2026), almost a month after blasting off on humanity’s first lunar trip in more than a half-century.

China launched a Pakistani satellite from its Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China’s Shanxi Province on Saturday night (April 26, 2026). The satellite named PRSC-EO3 was lifted off at 8:15 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-6 carrier rocket and successfully entered its planned orbit, China’s State-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Dozens ​of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills as they whizzed past human runners in a ‌half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday (April 19, 2026), highlighting the sector’s rapid technical advances. The race’s inaugural edition ​last year was riddled with mishaps, and most robots were unable to finish. Last...

A recent study has revealed the self-cleaning mechanism of green pill millipede (Arthrosphaera lutescens), a species endemic to the Western Ghats. Researchers found that these millipedes, primarily located in the Munnar region of Idukki and Nelliampathy in Palakkad, utilise a biological mechanism similar to the famous ‘lotus effect’ (the natural self-cleaning property of lotus leaves)...

An irony hides in the context of the NASA Artemis II launch on April 2. The U.S. has both openly and in internal reports cast the Artemis programme to return American astronauts to the moon as part of a race against China. But as China in Space editor Jack Congram has pointed out, China does...

The last atomic clock aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS)-1F satellite has failed, ISRO has said in a statement. This further weakens the country’s indigenous ‘GPS’ system, informally called NavIC. Atomic clocks are critical to satellites being able to offer positional, navigational, and timing services. Since the first...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) added a new mission to its Artemis moon programme involving a ​spacecraft docking test in Earth’s orbit before landing its first ‌astronauts on the moon in over half a century, ​overhauling the flagship U.S. moon effort amid ⁠competitive pressure from China. The new Artemis mission, planned for 2027,...

The International Space Station returned to full strength with the arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns. SpaceX delivered the U.S., French and Russian astronauts on Saturday (February 14, 2026), a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral. Last month’s medical evacuation was NASA’s first in 65...

The Chandrayaan-4 Mission is at least two years away, but the ISRO has identified a location in the South Polar region of the Moon to land its lander. The Union Government has approved the Chandrayaan-4 mission, designed as a lunar sample-return mission, and it will be India’s most complex lunar endeavour yet. “We are targeting...

Four International Space Station crew members splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday (January 15, 2026), NASA footage showed, after the first ever medical evacuation in the orbital lab’s history. A video feed from NASA showed the capsule carrying American astronauts Mike Fincke and Zena Cardman, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov and Japanese astronaut Kimiya...