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Retd astronaut Sunita Williams at the US Embassy in New Delhi (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: Calling her visit to India a homecoming, Indian-origin Nasa astronaut Sunita Williams on Tuesday said India held personal importance for her as it was the country where her father was born.Speaking at an interactive session at the American Center in…

Scientists discover lizards reinvented their armour multiple times (AI -gemerated) Biologists have long treated the bony plates found in some lizards as an ancient inheritance, passed down and occasionally lost. New research now suggests a different pattern. A study led by the Museums Victoria Research Institute argues that most of these plates, known as osteoderms,…

The future of the Dead Sea appears to be moving in a quieter direction than many earlier warnings suggested. New long term modelling points to a lake that becomes smaller, warmer and increasingly saline, but not one that suddenly disappears. The work follows how the lake responds to water loss and changing climate conditions over…

A rare and intense energy flare from the sun has reached our planet, leading to what scientists say is the most violent solar radiation storm in the past two decades. While of intense scientific interest, the phenomenon also promises to provide spectacular displays of the northern lights in areas that do not normally witness such…

This blue planet possibly resembling Earth experiences rain of glass at 5400 mph, says NASA (AI-generated) HD 189733 b orbits so close to its star that distance almost stops mattering. The planet was logged in 2005, one of many large gas worlds found tucked tight against their suns. Over time it drew attention for reasons…

Europe has a new ‘space phone line’ and it can hear missions across the solar system (AI-generated) The European Space Agency has quietly added a major piece to its global space communications network with the inauguration of a new deep space antenna in Western Australia. The structure doesn’t change the missions’ appearance or destination, but…

Scientists believe they’ve found the best place on Mars for future human landings (AI-generated) Arcadia Planitia does not draw attention in the way Mars’s great canyons or volcanoes do. It sits quietly across the northern mid latitudes, flat and wide, often passed over in favour of more dramatic terrain. In recent years, though, this part…

Japan ends the Akatsuki mission after a decade of tracking Venus’s turbulent skies (AI-generated) Japan has quietly closed the book on Akatsuki, a spacecraft that spent more time around Venus than anyone first expected. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed that termination procedures began on September 18, 2025, after efforts to regain contact failed. By…

NASA will send your name around the Moon (Image source: Canva) NASA has made a public invitation for its upcoming Artemis II mission, and it’s easy to understand. People from all over the world can send in their names to be on board the Orion spacecraft as it goes around the Moon. NASA says that…

In one of the most rugged and least studied areas in the world, researchers have found a massive black coral off the south coast of New Zealand that has been thriving for a staggering 300 years. Reaching heights of over four metres with sprawling roots, this biological phenomenon gives researchers a glimpse into the largely…