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Nicolaus Copernicus (Image source: Wikipedia) Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer from the Renaissance who changed how people thought about the universe. Copernicus was born in 1473 in what is now Poland. He went to universities in Krakow, Italy, and other European cities to study math, astronomy, and medicine. Most scholars at the time…

Trapped in Antarctic ice for 66 years, body of British scientist Dennis Bell was recovered (AI-generated) It was not expected that the ice would give anything back. Yet among rocks newly exposed by a retreating glacier on King George Island, a set of human remains was found and documented. A Polish research team working near…

Aditya Pandya, at the age of 17, achieved something most adults would dream of. He became India’s youngest male analogue astronaut after completing a simulated lunar habitat mission in Dholavira. A teenager, living inside a container-based habitat for eight days, cut off from the outside world, following strict mission rules. And on top of that,…

NASA SpaceX Crew 12 launch reaches orbit and begins journey to the ISS (Image Source – NASA) Morning light had only just settled over the Florida coast when the Falcon 9 rose from Space Launch Complex 40. At 5.15 a.m. EST, which is 3.45 p.m. IST, the rocket carrying NASA’s SpaceX Crew 12 mission cleared…

Astronomers find a solar system in the Milky Way that breaks the rules of planet formation (AI-generated) A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS 1903, does not follow the layout many scientists associate with planet formation….

NASA is returning to Earth in a big way. The space agency announced two new satellite missions that might change ‘how we see’ and ‘understand our home planet’. These are not just any satellites; rather, they are supposed to track everything from the ozone layer high up in the sky to glaciers and ice sheets…

NASA, SpaceX set for Crew 12 launch to the space station: Mission objectives explained (Image Source – NASA) Launch preparations are moving ahead at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, where a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 5.15 a.m. EST (3:45 PM IST) from Space Launch Complex 40. The…

World’s quietest room: Inside the silent chamber of Microsoft where you can hear your own heartbeat (AI-generated) Inside Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, there is a room where sound behaves in an unfamiliar way. Noise from the outside does not enter, and any sound made within its walls fades almost at once. The space is…

Astronomers have observed a rare event in the solar system, a comet slowing its rotation and then spinning in the opposite direction.Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák, a small icy body about 0.6 miles across, displayed this unusual behaviour as it approached the sun in 2017. David Jewitt, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles, studied images…

Comets usually fade quietly once they swing past the Sun. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS did not follow the same path. Instead, as it began to exit the solar system, it flared up dramatically. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope caught the outburst in December 2025, spotting water vapour, carbon dioxide, and complex organic compounds streaming into space. For…