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Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have been staring at them ever since. At first glance, they might seem ordinary. But analysis tells a different story that these rocks aren’t just rocks. They’re kaolinite clays, aluminium-rich, and rare. On…

One of the most spectacular encounters of Hubble with a galaxy has been brought back into focus by a recent image posted on X. The image, although posted recently, is actually from 2008 when it was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope from NASA. The image captures two galaxies in the distant universe that are…

NASA reveals how Arctic air froze half of America in January (Image Source – NASA) A big winter storm hit the US in late January and dumped snow and ice across a lot of states. After the storm passed, the cold didn’t leave. Instead, it stuck around for days and covered a huge area, especially…

Orion’s Belt is a familiar sight in the night sky during the colder months, often noticed easily. Three bright stars sit in a straight line, rising in the east and crossing high overhead as the evening deepens. They belong to the larger Orion constellation, positioned close to the celestial equator, which makes them visible from…

NASA uses AI to scan 35 years of Hubble data and finds space mysteries humans missed (Image source: NASA) For more than 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been quietly building one of the largest visual records of the universe ever assembled. The problem is scale. With nearly 100 million small image cutouts stored…

For most people, a powerful computer means faster loading times or smoother video edits. For NASA, it means compressing centuries of work into a single day. That’s the promise behind Athena, the agency’s newest and most powerful supercomputer, unveiled in January 2026. Sitting quietly at the Ames Research Center in California, Athena doesn’t look dramatic….

A full moon arrives at the start of February, settling into the evening sky with little fuss but quiet interest. The event itself is familiar, yet this one carries a detail that does not come around often. Alongside the bright moon, nearby stars and clusters briefly share the same patch of sky. For observers across…

As forests disappear, mosquitoes are not vanishing with them. Instead, they are adapting in ways that bring them closer to people. A new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution shows that in Brazil’s rapidly shrinking Atlantic Forest, many mosquito species are increasingly feeding on humans rather than on wild animals. Scientists warn that…

In 1905, a 26-year-old patent clerk named Albert Einstein looked at the universe and discovered that time was not what we thought it was. It was not linear. For centuries, everyone assumed the same thing about reality. Space was just there, like an empty room. Time was a steady flow, like a river moving at…

Scientists have achieved a genetic feat once thought impossible: removing an entire extra human chromosome using gene-editing technology. In a landmark laboratory study published in PNAS Nexus, researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to delete the additional copy of chromosome 21 that causes Down syndrome. After the edit, human cells grown in the lab showed gene-activity patterns much…