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Elon Musk-led SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has added a new skill to its resume: raising the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS). In a first-of-its-kind manoeuvre, Dragon used engines in its trunk section to gently push the orbiting laboratory to a slightly higher altitude. The test burn lasted five minutes and three seconds, employing two…
Agra-born real-estate investor Arvinder “Arvi” Singh Bahal soared into the spotlight after joining Blue Origin’s latest crewed space tourism mission, NS-34, on Sunday. In a video shared from his sub-orbital spaceflight, Bahal is seen watching the planet from an altitude of 100 kilometres above the surface. The suborbital flight, operated by Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company,…
In a historic collaboration, India and the United States have successfully launched the Nasa-Isro Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar) satellite. Valued at approximately $1.3 billion, Nisar is the costliest civilian Earth observation satellite ever developed and marks the most ambitious joint science mission undertaken by the two countries. Weighing 2,392 kilograms, Nisar has been placed in…
Why do humans reach for a cold beer after a long week? According to a new study, the roots of this age-old ritual might stretch all the way back to our ape ancestors, thanks to a newly recognised behaviour scientists have named “scrumping.” In a paper published in the journal BioScience, researchers from Dartmouth College…
As countries continue nuclear sabre-rattling, nuclear winter, once a theoretical concept, now represents a chilling climate scenario that could follow a large-scale nuclear war. In such an event, vast amounts of smoke and soot from firestorms would choke the atmosphere, drastically blocking sunlight and plunging global temperatures. The latest projections from scientific teams at Penn…
Astronomers worldwide are captivated by a dramatic solar event unfolding on the Sun’s northeastern limb, where a massive prominence, dubbed “The Beast”, has been observed curling and shifting in an extraordinary display of cosmic dynamics. David Wilson, an amateur astronomer based in Inverness, Scotland, captured three hours of this phenomenon from his backyard solar observatory….
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