Human missions to Mars are becoming a more serious possibility, and the question of how people will cope with life so far from Earth has never felt more pressing. When four volunteers stepped into NASA’s 3D printed Mars habitat in October 2025, they began a full year inside a space designed to mirror the challenges…
For decades, scientists believed they understood how material moves deep inside the Earth. The basic theory seemed simple enough. Tectonic plates slowly shift across the planet, some slide beneath others, and the remains of these plates sink into the mantle and eventually disappear. Yet new research has revealed something unexpected far below the Pacific Ocean….
This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica has shown signs of steady recovery, ranking as the fifth smallest since 1992, according to Nasa and Noaa (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists. Early observations suggest the hole is breaking up nearly three weeks earlier than in previous years, reflecting the long-term impact of global efforts to reduce…
For generations, Saturn has been the unmistakable jewel of the night sky. Anyone with even a small telescope could identify it instantly because of its bright, majestic ring system. Yet on the night of 23 November, observers around the world were confronted with a baffling and unsettling sight. Saturn appeared strangely naked. The wide, gleaming…
The discovery of an active underwater volcano off Canada’s Pacific coastline has revealed an unexpectedly vibrant deep-sea habitat centred around the life cycle of the Pacific white skate. Long believed to be dormant, the seamount was found to be warm, chemically rich, and covered in hundreds of thousands of large skate eggs. This finding provides…
The Kuiper Belt has long fascinated astronomers, not only because it sits at the edge of our Solar System, but because it preserves some of the earliest material that formed around the Sun. For years, it was described simply as a wide ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune, an ancient reservoir of frozen debris. Yet…
NASA has revealed the discovery of a mysterious red celestial object speeding through the Milky Way at an extraordinary velocity. Named CWISE J1249, this enigmatic sphere is challenging astronomers’ understanding of stars and planets. It behaves like a rogue planet, resembles a failed star, moves faster than almost any object ever recorded, and possesses physical…
The Elephants Foot of Chernobyl/ Stanford University If you were to stand near it for just thirty seconds, you might feel nothing at first, only to find yourself overwhelmed by dizziness and fatigue days later. At two minutes, your cells would begin breaking down. Four minutes could bring vomiting and fever. And if you lasted…
Pic courtesy: Claire Diperna On a quiet afternoon in University Park, Pennsylvania, aerospace engineering student Divya Tyagi (22) sat buried in equations that had defeated generations of aerodynamicists. The puzzle, first posed more than a century ago by British pioneer Hermann Glauert, was central to understanding how wind turbines extract energy from the wind. What…
People with severe vision loss have been able to read again, thanks to a tiny wireless chip implanted in one of their eyes and a pair of hightech glasses.Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common condition that affects the middle part of someone’s vision, often worsening over time. Its exact cause is unknown, but it…
