
Soyuz 11: The Only Human Deaths in Space
On June 6, 1971, Soviet cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov launched aboard Soyuz 11, embarking on a historic 23-day mission to Salyut...

On June 6, 1971, Soviet cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov launched aboard Soyuz 11, embarking on a historic 23-day mission to Salyut...

Astronomers, in collaboration with citizen scientists, have discovered a remarkable dual-ring odd radio circle (ORC)—the strongest and most distant ever detected. Named J131346.9+500320, the structure consists of two...

For years, a narrow spectral band detected on Mars puzzled scientists, hinting at an iron-rich material that did not match any known mineral. A new...

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have confirmed that the Red Sea completely dried up around 6.2 million years ago, only to...

A house-sized asteroid, named 2025 TC, is set for a close flyby of Earth on 3 October, drawing interest from astronomers worldwide. The asteroid, roughly...

The Vijayanagara Exploration Research Team has uncovered compelling evidence of a Stone Age settlement at Meenakere village in Kudligi taluk, on the banks of the...

A recently detected interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, heading toward the inner solar system is far larger than initially believed, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct measurements of a potential moon-forming disk around the exoplanet CT Cha b, located 625 light-years...
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a 1.4-ton space telescope launched in 2004, is gradually losing altitude in low-Earth orbit due to atmospheric drag and faces...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has opened up archival data for scientific research and announced opportunities for researchers to contribute to India’s first Venus...

Debris flows are known to generate both seismic waves and infrasound, but the mechanisms linking the two are not fully understood. A study of a...

India’s pioneering multi-wavelength space observatory allows astronomers to observe the universe simultaneously in ultraviolet (UV), visible, soft X-ray, and hard X-ray bands. A collaborative initiative...