Tag: Science

The Artemis astronauts were gearing up Saturday (April 4, 2026) for their long-anticipated lunar flyby, including reviewing the surface features they must analyze and photograph during their time circling the Moon. “Morale is high on board,” commander Reid Wiseman told Houston’s Mission Control center as the space crew’s work day began. Upon waking around 1635...

Does Jupiter have a “voice”? When we say discovery of Jupiter’s “voice”, it corresponds to the discovery that the planet Jupiter is a strong source of radio waves. This discovery was made in the 1950s by two scientists at the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C. – Bernard F. Burke and Kenneth Linn Franklin – when...

The four Artemis astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the Moon on the way to their planned lunar flyby, NASA said on Friday (April 3, 2026) evening. “You are now closer to the moon than you are to us on Earth,” mission control told the astronauts at around 11 p.m. (0400 GMT),...

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century. The first photo taken by commander Reid Wiseman shows a curved slice of Earth...

Scientists and designers unveiled on Thursday (April 2, 2026) a ‌handbag made with collagen derived from Tyrannosaurus rex fossils from ​the U.S. in a unique creation intended to demonstrate ⁠the value of laboratory-grown leather. The teal-coloured bag will be displayed on a rock in a cage under a replica of a T. rex at ‌Amsterdam’s...

NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon on Thursday (April 2, 2026) night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity in shallow laps around Earth in the decades since Apollo. The so-called translunar ignition came 25 hours after liftoff, putting the three Americans and a Canadian on course...

Iran is expected to have around 500 kg of uranium enriched to 60%. U-235 is the isotope of uranium conventionally used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Enrichment is the process of increasing the quantity of U-235 in the uranium mass. The rest will be U-238, which is not a good fissile material. Whereas a...

Researchers and investors worldwide are currently pouring billions of dollars into nuclear fusion in the hopes that it will prove to be a reliable source of green power. These investments often bank on economic models that assume the cost of the underlying technologies will drop rapidly as the industry expands. However, researchers have published an...

In December last year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) upcoming missions that the Department of Space had scheduled seven major missions by March 2026. Of these, only one — the LVM3 M6 mission by NewSpace India, Ltd. (NSIL) — was...