The FAA has approved SpaceX's plan to significantly increase Falcon 9 launches at Cape Canaveral, allowing up to 120 launches annually and the construction of a new booster landing pad. This expansion, while avoiding a full Environmenta ...more

By showing amino acids latch directly onto RNA without enzymes, researchers have provided striking evidence that life’s essential partnership between genes and proteins might have begun in ordinary ponds or frozen pools billions of years ago

Skywatchers across Asia, Australia, Africa, and Europe will witness a stunning Blood Moon total lunar eclipse on September 7–8, 2025. Unfortunately, most of North America, including the United States, will miss this event due to dayli ...more

The amount of carbon dioxide that can be stored underground is vastly overestimated, new research said Wednesday, challenging assumptions about the "limitless" potential this approach holds to reducing global warming. However, in a new ...more

Portugal this year recorded its hottest and driest summer in nearly a century, with temperatures 1.5C above the average for 1991-2020 and just under a quarter of normal rainfall, the national meteorological agency said Friday. The summe ...more

Iberian harvester ant queens exhibit xenoparous reproduction, a unique phenomenon where they produce hybrid worker ants by utilizing sperm from another species, Messor structor. This allows the queens to essentially clone another specie ...more

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary view of star birth in the Pismis 24 cluster, revealing its dust-scape sculpted by massive infant stars. Located 5,500 light-years away in the Lobster Nebula, Pismis 24-1, once ...more

A new hydrogen-powered train will soon be carrying passengers between Jind and Sonipat in Haryana

Sky gazers in India will see a blood moon on September 7 during a total lunar eclipse

Developed by scientists at IIT Madras, the computational tool could reshape how industries harness microbes for sustainable production

Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 revealed volcanic moons and witnessed Saturn’s rings up close. Take this quiz to see how well you know this interstellar pioneer

NASA-backed scientists have created a novel oxygen production system for space. This system uses magnets instead of heavy centrifuges. It separates oxygen bubbles in zero gravity. Tests show it is more effective. This innovation could s ...more

Dr Nishant Kumar, co-founder and chief scientist of the Thinkpaws Sustainability Research Foundation, a Delhi-based trans-disciplinary think tank, believes robust scientific management is needed to facilitate better coexistence between human and non-humans in our cities

The statement comes amid reports that more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, including thousands of children

The Registrar General’s latest report cautioned about possible misclassifications but noted the findings are crucial to shaping India’s public health strategies and tackling the growing burden of non-communicable diseases..

The event resulted in 17 licensing deals in infectious disease diagnostics, immunodiagnostics, and vaccine development.

The promise of cold fusion collapsed in 1989 following the claims by Fleischmann and Pons. Now, a new tabletop fusion reactor is reviving cautious scientific interest in the idea

Disasters in August and September are exposing the steep cost of ignoring climate risks in the rush for development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya, experts say

The framework developed by researchers from IIT-Bombay and Australia’s Monash University will allow rapid evaluation of traffic policies using fewer computational resources to help design smarter, safer urban traffic systems