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The sight of the giant rocket bearing the NASA Artemis II mission and its crew of four ascending into the sky in the early hours of April 2 (IST) brought cheers among onlookers on the ground and around the world. The mission has taken many years and several billion dollars to develop and brings the…
Iran is expected to have around 500 kg of uranium enriched to 60%. U-235 is the isotope of uranium conventionally used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. Enrichment is the process of increasing the quantity of U-235 in the uranium mass. The rest will be U-238, which is not a good fissile material. Whereas a…
An exploded view of the ITER nuclear-fusion facility. A human figure in orange is shown just below the image’s centre for scale. The reactor vessel is visible at the centre (with the D-shaped cross-section). | Photo Credit: DOI:10.1088/1741-4326/aa626c Researchers and investors worldwide are currently pouring billions of dollars into nuclear fusion in the hopes that…
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In December last year, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said in reply to a question in Lok Sabha on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) upcoming missions that the Department of Space had scheduled seven major missions by March 2026. Of these, only one — the LVM3 M6 mission by NewSpace India, Ltd. (NSIL) — was…
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Extra-terrestrials have always been a fascinating subject for us humans. In the media, they have been portrayed from comically homicidal Martians in Mars Attacks to stoic Spock in Star Trek and the curious and childlike E.T. The latest to join the ranks of the non-earthling denizens of the universe is Rocky, the adorable rock-like Eridian…
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People stand in a flooded area in Bundi village, Rajasthan, following heavy rains. August 23, 2025 | Photo Credit: @ombirlakota/X.com/ANI Scientists find one reason why northwest India floods more Scientists have reported evidence of two subseasonal weather patterns turning northwestern South Asia, including northwest India, from a semiarid region into a flood-prone one. First, the…
On a humid evening along Beach Road in Visakhapatnam, a small crowd gathers around a telescope, waiting for a glimpse of the moon. Conversations quieten as each viewer takes a turn. Some step back in astonishment, others linger, returning for another look. These are the familiar rhythms of the Vizag Astronomy Club’s ongoing moon watch…
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NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, soars into the sky from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. on Wednesday (April 1, 2026). | Photo Credit: Reuters The four astronauts aboard the Artemis II have reached orbit….
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Four astronauts are set to embark Wednesday (April 1, 2026) on a trip around the Moon marking humankind’s deepest venture into space, an odyssey that aims to launch the US into a new era of interstellar exploration. The NASA mission dubbed Artemis 2 has been years in the making after facing repeated setbacks and massive…