During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great ice sheets that make up around 99% of Antarctica. This melted water collects to form tho… [+4968 chars]
There is almost never a lull in the number of things to see in the night sky. From the International Space Station to the most recent meteor showers to planets that resemble stars, weve got it all. T… [+1362 chars]
Debris fields are created when comets pass through leaving chunks behind The annual Lyrid Meteor Shower will be visible in Indian skies from tonight till April 29. The moon however could prevent peo… [+1359 chars]
In the ultrahigh vacuum of a scanning tunneling microscope, a hydrogen molecule is held between the silver tip and sample. Femtosecond bursts of a terahertz laser excite the molecule, turning it into… [+4368 chars]
The first solar eclipse of 2022 is coming on April 30. There will be a narrow band of visibility across parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Or… [+8058 chars]
Bengaluru: A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru has collaborated with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop a prototype for bricks made of M… [+4073 chars]
Most impact craters are usually circular and fairly symmetric, but not all. This odd-shaped crater on Mars is obviously an impact crater, but it has a unique oblong shape. What happened? Most crater… [+2080 chars]
Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of … [+2123 chars]
Diljeet Gill, a postdoctoral candidate at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge and his colleagues have developed a way to reverse the ageing process in skin cells by 30 years. The method was published… [+2336 chars]
Solar Eclipse 2022: The first solar eclipse of 2022 is on its way! Yes, on April 30, 2022, Saturday, the first partial solar eclipse will take place. People in parts of southern South America, Antarc… [+2194 chars]
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense star clusters located throughout the universe. The study, published in … [+3576 chars]
Juno, NASA's most distant planetary orbiter, has captured a spectacular view of Jupiter during its 40th close pass by the gas giant on February 25, 2022. The JunoCam imager on the spacecraft capture… [+1431 chars]
