Boeing’s Starliner capsule made a successful landing in New Mexico early Saturday, but astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are still aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule, which touched down at 0401 GMT (9:30 am local time) after a six-hour journey from the ISS, returned to Earth without its intended passengers.Starliner switched to…
NEW DELHI: Seismic activity in the Moon’s soil could be due to impact from meteorites in the past or local heat-related effects, according to Isro’s preliminary analysis of data received from Chandrayaan-3‘s quake-detecting instrument. However, detailed studies are needed to get more insights from the data, they said. Their research paperpublished in the journal Icarus,…
Video circulating online shows a small asteroid named 2024 RW1, measuring approximately 1 meter in size, disintegrated harmlessly in Earth‘s atmosphere on Wednesday, as per Nasa reports. The asteroid, discovered by astronomers in Arizona, broke apart over the coast of the Philippines just hours after its detection.This space rock is only the ninth to have…
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are gearing up for the Boeing Starliner‘s return from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth today. The astronauts have sealed the spacecraft’s hatch, and it is scheduled to undock from the ISS at 3:30 AM IST on Saturday, with a landing expected in New Mexico about six…
Ninety-three days after launching aboard, Boeing’s Starliner capsule is prepared to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday evening leaving Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williamsthe two astronauts who have been on the ISS since June, to remain on the station as the capsule departs.The hatch of the Starliner was closed, and the capsule…
A new research has revealed that a common food dye, tartrazine (FD&C Yellow No. 5), can temporarily render the skin of living mice transparent, allowing for unprecedented visualization of internal structures without invasive procedures.This groundbreaking study, published in the journal Science, marks a significant advancement in biomedical imaging techniques.This discovery, reminiscent of the serum in…
BENGALURU: Isro chairman S Somanath on Thursday expressed concern over India’s position in core technology development within the IT sector. He pointed out that despite India’s success in IT servicesthere was a significant gap in the country’s ability to produce original software products and core technologies.He spoke after laying the foundation stone for ‘Cyber Nalanda’,…
Nasa‘s Starliner capsule is set to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) this Friday evening, marking a significant development in a mission fraught with complications. The capsule, which is expected to land in New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range roughly six hours after undocking, will return with empty seats, leaving behind the two astronauts…
A lot is being discussed about the use of mobile phones and its impact on brain health. The level of concern extends to cancer and this has been a major concern among kids and adults.Exposure to radio waves have become the favorite subject of researchers in the last few decades as our dependence on phones…
Nasa astronaut Butch Wilmorecurrently aboard the International Space Stationon Saturday radioed Mission Control at Johnson Space Center in Houston to report a “strange noise” coming from the Boeing Starliner spacecraft. This comes just days before the Starliner is set to leave the station and return to Earth without any crew.According to Fox News, the recording…
