‘Like going from steam to combustion engine’: NASA’s PUNCH mission stuns scientists with solar storm prediction
"We thought PUNCH would be good at this, but it’s a stunning result."
Published: 3 hours ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Scientists reveal Earth-like quakes on the Moon may help detect water ice
Discovering water ice on the Moon will be a huge step toward building a sustainable, long-term human presence there.
Published: 1 day ago | By Biplab Das
Earth-like waves a key driver of Mars' atmospheric loss, finds new study
With Mars thought to be wet and habitable once, the study is helping provide new insights into how it came to be the bone-dry planet we know today.
Published: 2 days ago | By Biplab Das
World’s largest digital camera captures over 500,000 galaxies in spectacular new image
The composite image provides a clear view of the COSMOS field, which is a popular region in the sky located in the constellation Sextans.
Published: 2 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Neutron star mergers produce gold and platinum—and scientists may now know why
A new study has found that the process of heavy metal formation in neutron star mergers proceeds more slowly than previously thought.
Published: 5 days ago | By Biplab Das
What is a neutron star? Here's all you need to know about the densest known objects in the universe
A neutron star is so dense that one sugar cube of its material would weigh around 1 trillion kilograms.
Published: 5 days ago | By Biplab Das
From NASA telescope launch to total solar eclipse, list of major astronomy and spaceflight events in August
From meteor showers to solar eclipses and important space launches, August has a stellar lineup.
Published: 5 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Mysterious asteroid 44 Nysa may be the first known three-lobed world. It even has a moon.
Asteroids like Nysa are called E-type asteroids, which are believed to preserve records of the early solar system and secrets of our planet's formation.
Published: 5 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
‘Took our breath away’: Scientists amazed as NASA's Curiosity images honeycomb-like features on Mars
The features have been photographed in a valley nicknamed ‘Valle Grande,' which Curiosity is currently exploring.
Published: 5 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
Life on Jupiter's moon Europa may be harder to find than scientists hoped, new study suggests
The search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa just got a lot more complicated. Here’s why.
Published: 5 days ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Fireball spotted over South Atlantic in April successfully traced to its origin
The data from the weather satellites supplemented observations made by U.S. government sensors.
Published: 6 days ago | By Pranjal Nath
NASA’s Psyche teams up with ESA's Mars Express for a coordinated photoshoot at the Red Planet
Both spacecraft captured stunning images of Noachis Terra, an ancient cratered region of Mars.
Published: 6 days ago | By Biplab Das
Chicxulub impact: How the dino-killing asteroid may have burned everything in an hour or two
A thick global blanket of dust from the impact insulated Earth's atmosphere, triggering global wildfires and killing off the mighty dinosaurs.
Published: 6 days ago | By Biplab Das
We may have overlooked one of the biggest clues to alien life, says expert
What if technosignatures and biosignatures are not the only ways intelligent alien life can make itself apparent?
Published: 7 days ago | By Ankita Garkoti
Venus is not geologically dormant, new computer simulations reveal
The simulations indicate that rift valleys on Venus may still be actively forming today.
Published: Jul 28, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Rock samples from the Moon's far side reveal secrets of early Earth and the solar system
"The Moon is like a time capsule—it has preserved a record of events that have been erased from Earth by erosion, plate tectonics and other geological processes."
Published: Jul 28, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Data from NASA's MAVEN orbiter shows Mars gets Earth-like auroras—here's how
Scientists have long observed localized auroras on the Red Planet, but it wasn’t until now that they fully understood how they’re formed.
Published: Jul 24, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA’s Juno spills surprising subsurface secrets of our solar system's most volcanic world, Io
Juno has revealed that there is significant heating underway beneath Io’s surface which is smoother than previously thought.
Published: Jul 24, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
Do solar storms influence Martian weather? New study finds evidence that dust storms get affected
In 2018, a solar event influenced a Martian dust storm, ending the life of NASA's Opportunity rover.
Published: Jul 22, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Size matters: A planet needs to be at least as big as Mars for alien life to survive on it
The size of a planet is a major factor that determines if life can gain a foothold on it, even if it's in the habitable zone of its star.
Published: Jul 22, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan