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NEW DELHI: International Asteroid Day, celebrated on June 30, marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia. This day aims to raise awareness about the threat of asteroid impacts and promote global efforts in planetary defense. The Tunguska event was a powerful explosion caused by an asteroid, flattening miles of forest. The United
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Nasa shared satelite pictures of World’s most remote inhabited island Tristan da Cunha. The images were captured by the OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2)on Landsat 9 satellite.Tristan da Cunha, frequently described as the world’s most isolated inhabited island, is the youngest and largest among the group situated in the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly equidistant from the
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BENGALURU: The lack of awareness when it comes to paediatric stroke is so low and people are often stunned to hear that children can get stroke. Actors like Amitabh Bachchan need to talk about it to create awareness, said Dr Nirmal Surya, president of Indian Stroke Association (ISA) on Saturday.Speaking at a press conference after
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A University of Tokyo professor, Shoji Takeuchi, has developed a robot with “living skin” that is gaining widespread attention online. The alien-like machine was created using engineered skin attached to a humanoid robot, building on Takeuchi’s previous work on walking mini-robots made with 3D-printed lab-grown meat, engineered skin, and biological muscle tissue.Takeuchi emphasised the importance
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Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who launched aboard Boeing‘s Starliner capsule on June 5, will remain at the International Space Station for an extended period as engineers work to resolve issues with the spacecraft’s propulsion system and helium leaks that emerged during the journey. Nasa’s commercial crew program manager, Steve Stich, emphasised that
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Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-founder and former CEO of OceanGate, plans to lead an expedition to Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas often called the ‘portal to hell‘, a sinkhole known for its extreme depth. Söhnlein, who left OceanGate to start Blue Marble Exploration, will be joined by scientist Kenny Broad and former Nasa astronaut Scott
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Nasa on Thursday said that it will continue evaluating the performance of Starliner‘s propulsion system in collaboration with Boeing before the shuttle‘s return from the International Space Station (ISS).The space agency and the aerospace company did not provide an updated date for the return, which was previously rescheduled to June 26 following a delay from
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A recent study by an international team of astronomers has revealed new insights into the enigmatic Cygnus X-3 binary system, located about 24,000 light-years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Using Nasa’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), researchers have discovered that this system, which likely contains a black hole and a massive Wolf-Rayet star, exhibits
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Two sizable asteroids are set to fly past Earth this week, as reported by the European Space Agency, marking a unique coincidence that aligns with this year’s Asteroid Day.Despite their classification as “potentially hazardous” due to their size and trajectory, neither of these celestial bodies poses any threat to the planet.Asteroid 2024 MK, measuring between
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NEW DELHI: Nasa’s Juno probe, utilising the Italian Space Agency’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument, has provided unprecedented insights into the volcanic activity on Jupiter’s moon Io. The findings, published on June 20 in Nature Communications Earth and Environment, include the detection of widespread lava lakes and new details about volcanic processes.Io has fascinated
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