This finding sheds new light on Earth’s history In a groundbreaking discovery, experts have identified ancient remnants of a long-lost tectonic plate, dubbed Pontus, dating back an astonishing 120 million years. This finding sheds new light on Earth’s history and underscores the ongoing quest for knowledge about our planet. According to Indy100.com, researchers Suzanna van…
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the US space agency shared an exquisite video capturing a mind-boggling collection of dazzling stars that are located 30,000 light-years away. In a social media post on its Instagram handle, the space agency stated, “Liller 1 is a globular cluster – a roughly spherical grouping of stars held…
Can you imagine life on Earth without Sun, the answer is a big No. We know, that life on this blue planet depends upon the energy provided by the star at the centre of our solar system. But imagine what will happen when the Sun will run out of its energy? Do we survive? Or…
Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Skygazers are keenly waiting for one of the most exciting cosmic events of the year set to take place tomorrow, on Monday. The rare phenomenon of total solar eclipse on Earth is not so uncommon on Jupiter, which is orbited by more than ninety moons. Five of its moons are close…
Although the change will merely be of a second, the earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way. Here is why for the first time in history, timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years. According…
BENGALURU: India’s latest meteorological satellite Insat-3DS has successfully initiated its Earth imaging operations, marking a milestone in the country’s weather monitoring and forecasting capabilities. On March 7, 2024, the satellite’s advanced meteorological payloads, including the six-channel imager and 19-channel sounder, captured their first set of images from space.Launched on Feb 17, Insat-3DS underwent a series…
Japan’s first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weekslong lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Monday. JAXA called the signal, received late Sunday night, a “miracle” because the probe was not designed to survive the lunar night, when temperatures can fall to minus 170 degrees Celsius…
After conducting the successful launch of the INSAT-3DS meteorological satellite, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now gearing up for a joint project involving a radar imaging satellite with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa). The joint project known as Nasa-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) is scheduled to be launched next month. The NISAR will…
For years, scientists have been perplexed by a peculiar phenomenon occurring on the hills of Ladakh. When vehicles are parked in neutral gear, they inexplicably move uphill at a speed of 10-15 kmph.This phenomenon adds to the allure of Magnetic Hill, situated at a breathtaking altitude of 14,000 feet above sea level. Regardless of scientific…
The viperfish is a deep-sea fish that has a long, slender body, with large, fang-like teeth and a hinged lower jaw. It has a bioluminescent organ on the end of a long filament on its head, which it uses to lure prey in the dark. It also has photophores along its sides and belly, which…
