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On April 19, 1975, India took a bold leap into the cosmos with the launch of its first satellite, Aryabhata. Named after the ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer, the satellite not only marked a historic milestone but also laid the cornerstone of

While most people mark milestone birthdays with quiet reflection, NASA’s oldest serving astronaut Don Pettit celebrated his 70th birthday by returning to Earth after seven months aboard the International Space Station. Pettit landed near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on April 20, the day he

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has achieved another milestone with its Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) satellites successfully completing a second docking. Union Minister Jitendra Singh, while sharing the update on X on Monday, wrote, “Glad to inform that the second docking

It was India’s Chandrayaan Mission that discovered water on the Moon, and ever since the race to find its mysterious source has been on. A team of scientiests have now discovered where did it all come from. Nasa-led researchers have confirmed that the

Two-year-old Sumaiya Ansari, a resident of India’s Byrnihat town, which is ranked the world’s most polluted metropolitan area by Swiss Group IQAir, was battling breathing problems for several days before she was hospitalised in March and given oxygen support. She is amongst

Chinese researchers have detonated a new non-nuclear hydrogen bomb capable of generating a sustained, ultra-high-temperature fireball, marking a significant leap in military and energy technology. In a controlled field test, as reported by the South China Morning Post, the 2kg device produced

On March 28, 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck near Mandalay, Myanmar, followed twelve minutes later by a magnitude 6.7 aftershock about 31 kilometers south. The two quakes killed over 5,000 people and left behind damage worth billions in their wake.

Global sea surface temperatures (SST) have been rising 4.5 times faster since 2019 as climate change worsens the situation worldwide. During the period between 1985 and 1989, a warming of 0.06 Celsius per decade was observed, while the temperatures rose by 0.27