Category: Science

NASA, Axiom Space, and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than June 19 for the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The Axiom Mission 4 launch was postponed from June 12 as the agency continued evaluating repairs made to a recent leak on the ISS. The small leaks, located in the Zvezda service module’s aft […]

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected an enormous X-ray jet from quasar J1610+1811, observed at a distance of about 11.6 billion light-years (roughly 3 billion years after the Big Bang). The jet spans over 300,000 light-years and carries particles moving at roughly 92–98% of the speed of light. It is visible in X-rays because high-energy […]

Pluto and its moon Charon are shown with a thin haze of organic particles covering Pluto’s sunlit side. The haze both cools Pluto’s upper atmosphere by radiating heat into space and absorbs ultraviolet light that helps propel methane molecules to escape. This explains why Pluto’s mesosphere is colder than expected and why methane is leaking […]

The oceans of Earth are in worse condition than it was, thought, said the scientists. This is because of the increased acidity levels that led the sea to enter the danger zone five years ago. As per the new study, oceans are more acidic by releasing carbon dioxide from industrial activities such as fossil fuel […]

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp. used a brain implant to enable a monkey to see something that wasn’t physically there, according to an engineer, as it moves toward its goal of helping blind people see. The device, called Blindsight, stimulated areas of a monkey’s brain associated with vision, Neuralink engineer Joseph O’Doherty said Friday at a […]

SpaceX just aced another launch of its Starlink internet satellites. On Thursday night (June 12), the company launched 26 new Starlink spacecraft to join its ever-growing internet megaconstellation in orbit. Flying from Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base, the launch occurred at 9:54 p.m. EDT (6:54 p.m. PDT or 0154 […]

A rare display in the night sky could be visible to skywatchers in the U.S., as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the night of June 14. The moderate G2-level event, fuelled by disturbances in solar wind, might produce auroras visible as far south as New York and Idaho, […]

Russian scientists have confirmed a brand-new island in the northern Caspian Sea. Satellite imagery from late 2024 first hinted at a sandbank breaking the surface, and a field expedition in mid 2025 verified it. The feature lies about 30 km southwest of Maly Zhemchuzhny Island, on the Europe-Asia boundary of the world’s largest inland sea. It […]

The latest Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal a twist in the story of Uranus’s moons. Rather than the expected radiation “sunburn,” the moons Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon seem to be literally gathering cosmic dust. It turns out the planet’s odd tilt isn’t scorching their backsides as predicted, but coating the front ends of the […]

A recent effort to do away with singularities — the infinitely dense points believed to be at the heart of black holes — has reignited debate among physicists. Now, a team led by Robie Hennigar of Durham University suggests a new model that has gravity undergoing a different type of behaviour at the extreme limits and […]

The European Space Agency has released an image showing the south pole of the Sun. This image was taken on March 23, 2025, but was revealed yesterday on June 11, 2025. These new images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft show a view of the Sun that has never been recorded before. Solar Orbiter spent its […]

The Axiom-4 mission, which will carry Indian payload specialist Shubhanshu Shukla, was delayed yet again due to a propellant leak in the Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX, the company behind the mission, also confirmed that a liquid oxygen (LOx) leak was detected in post-static fire testing, which tests the rocket while it’s still attached to the […]

In a landmark survey, University of Newcastle researchers mapped a previously hidden koala population on the outskirts of Newcastle, NSW. The study estimated about 4,357 koalas across roughly 67,300 hectares of bushland (208 sites). They also found more than 290 koalas in Sugarloaf State Conservation Area, a region with few prior records. Local researcher Daryn […]

High above the Mojave Desert, NASA’s two F-15 jets completed a pivotal series of May flights to validate airborne tools essential for the agency’s Quesst mission, aimed at enabling quiet supersonic travel. Flying faster than the speed of sound, the jets replicated the conditions under which NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft will fly. The campaign tested […]

A black hole 11.6 billion light years from Earth has unleashed a compelling jet, according to new observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array (VLA). Seen when the universe was at its early “cosmic noon”, or about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, the jet is visible […]

The Indian crewed mission Axiom-4 was postponed because of a leak in the forward stage of the Falcon booster in the course of testing. The mission was to launch Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla to the International Space Station, possibly making him the country’s first spaceflier. It was set to launch on June 11, 2025. Alongside him were […]

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 pummelling into the moon in December 2032 has been increased by new data gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by NASA. Feared to be the largest Earth impact threat ever detected, the asteroid’s odds of striking the Moon are now 4.3 percent, compared with 3.8 percent, as per a […]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures mid-infrared wavelength images of the Sombrero Galaxy in late 2024. The James Webb of NASA, on June 3, 2025, released an image of the Sombrero Galaxy, occupied with stars that illuminate when the dust towards the outer edges of the discs blocks the light. The Sombrero Galaxy study by […]

In a study conducted on June 7, 2025, NASA’s Perseverance stayed and continued the descent into the flat surface further ahead of the Jezero Crater on Mars. Scientists have suggested that this region may contain some of the oldest rocks studied on the surface of Mars. This states that it is a prime location for […]

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla is set to become the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission, launching June 10. A decorated combat pilot with 15 years in the Indian Air Force, Shukla will serve as pilot of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon C213 capsule. The mission, also called Akash […]

SpaceX launched the SXM-10 satellite for SiriusXM early on Saturday morning, June 7. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 12:54 a.m. EDT, carrying the 14,100-pound (6,400-kg) spacecraft into an initial high orbit. About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth and touched down safely on SpaceX’s drone ship […]

Unexplained dark streaks on Mars, thought to be evidence of liquid water flow in recent years, could just be marks left by blowing sand and dust, according to new artificial intelligence (AI) research. First detected by NASA’s Viking mission in 1976, these streaks are dark, narrow lines that creep down some Martian slopes and cliffs. Scientists had […]

Archaeologists from Slovakia and Guatemala, working together with the Uaxactún Archaeological Project (PARU), have uncovered three previously unknown Maya cities in Guatemala’s Petén jungle. The sites lie roughly 3 miles (5 kilometers) apart, forming a triangle, and span a long period of Maya history from the Middle Preclassic era (about 1000–400 B.C.) to the Late […]

NASA and India’s space agency ISRO are collaborating on a suite of science investigations aboard Axiom Mission 4, a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station set to launch no earlier than June 10 aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The mission will carry experiments probing human biology, plant growth, and technology use in microgravity. […]

Sharks have long been regarded as silent predators, but a new study shows that small rig sharks (Mustelus lenticulatus) can make clicking sounds when handled. Evolutionary biologist Carolin Nieder discovered the noise by accident during shark hearing tests. In lab trials, juvenile rigs emitted rapid “click…click” noises when restrained. The results, published in Royal Society […]

Nuclear physicists have detected the radioactive disintegration of a rare isotope of astatine for the first time. This shows that the heaviest element found in nature may be modified a lot, maybe even destroyed, in a way that scientists didn’t predict. That oddball radioactive decay with 85 protons and 103 neutrons is almost (but not […]

Hubble’s latest view reveals a jewel-like cloudscape of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This Milky Way companion is our galaxy’s largest satellite, and its active stellar nurseries glow in intricate pastel filaments. The wispy tendrils in the image have been likened to brightly […]

Astronomers have found a way to see through the turbulent atmosphere of a distant planet that experienced heat and gale-force winds — conditions that are thought to be similar to those on an early version of Earth that was also cold and blanketed by clouds. They accomplished it with the help of the NASA James Webb Space […]

On June 4, SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This is one piece of SpaceX’s strategy to continue getting satellites into orbit fast in 2025. Starlink 11-22 lifted off at 7:40 p.m. EDT (4:40 p.m. PDT) when the Falcon 9 rocket roared into space on the way […]

Astronomers have seen the most energetic cosmic explosions yet, a new class of eruptions termed “extreme nuclear transients” (ENTs). These rare events occur when stars at least three times more massive than our Sun are shredded by supermassive black holes. While such cataclysmic events have been known for years, recent flares detected in galactic centres revealed a […]