NASA’s Lucy spacecraft beams back pictures of an asteroid shaped like a lumpy bowling pin (Picture credit: AP) CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close approach. It was considered…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. MELBOURNE: With the most powerful radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, we have observed a twinkling star and discovered an abundance of mysterious plasma structures in our cosmic neighbourhood. The plasma structures we see are variations in density or turbulence, akin to interstellar cyclones stirred…
Expedition 72 crew members: NASA astronaut Don Pettit, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin, and Ivan Vagner, right, receive the traditional blessing at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing for suit-up and launch on a Soyuz rocket, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The launch will send Pettit, Ovchinin, and Vagner on a mission to…
The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest recorded astronomical events in human history, is active today and will peak overnight Monday, April 21, through Tuesday, April 22, 2025. This year’s peak should produce up to 18 meteors per hour, including the occasional breathtaking “fireball”—a very bright meteor whose trail glows for a longer, more…
BENGALURU: Isro has successfully managed to dock the two Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites for the second time, an achievement that would give the space agency data to further better its technology in the future.V Narayanan, chairman, Isro, told TOI: “This is a significant achievement and further activities are being planned now.” Stating that the…
NEW DELHI: A team of 30 scientists from India’s premier institute, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has submitted a proposal to the government to develop ‘angstrom-scale’ chips, far smaller than the smallest chips currently in production. The team has submitted the proposal to the government for developing technologies using a new class of semiconductor…
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is carried to a medical tent shortly after he and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner landed in their Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on April 19, 2025. Nasa astronaut Don Pettit marked his 70th birthday not in the quiet of retirement or with a cozy…
Isro to launch two high-profile space missions in May-June NEW DELHI: Isro is gearing up for two high-profile space missions over the next two months — astronaut-designate Shubhanshu Shukla is set to travel to the international space station (ISS) in May as part of the Nasa-collaborated Axiom-4 mission, followed by the launch of the world’s…
Found 120 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Leo, the K2-18b planet is causing ripples among scientists. Twice the size of the Earth, the planet orbits the habitable zone of its star where temperatures may be conducive to the presence of liquid water. Scientists recently discovered chemicals in its atmosphere in the form…
