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Alpha Centaurids Meteor Shower: Up to 16 Meteors Per Hour in Southern Skies

The Alpha Centaurids meteor shower, which peaked this past weekend on February 8-9, continues lighting up southern skies through February 20th, 2025. Unlike regular annual meteor showers, this event is special because

Govind Tekale

February 11, 2025

NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life’s Ingredients Photo Source: James Tralie (@NASA)

Space

Bennu’s Pristine Samples Reveal Amino Acids, DNA Building Blocks, and Ancient Liquid Water Clues

A space rock has given scientists their best look yet at how life might have started in our solar system. NASA‘s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu in

Rahul Somvanshi

February 10, 2025

A Lysozyme crystal grown in microgravity, viewed under a microscope using X-ray crystallography. Photo Source: NASA

Materials·Space·Technology

NASA’s ISS Experiments Boost Advanced Materials Development

Advanced materials research in the International Space Station (ISS) of NASA is revealing new possibilities for stronger, more efficient products. These experiments, conducted in microgravity conditions, are tackling real-world challenges in manufacturing

Rahul Somvanshi

February 9, 2025

Global product generated at 1km resolution using data for the period Jan-Dec 2024.

India·Space

ISRO’s EOS-06 Enhances Ocean Monitoring with Advanced Imaging

India’s space agency ISRO is now watching over our oceans better than ever before. Their satellite EOS-06, launched in late 2022, takes pictures of tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton every two days.

Rahul Somvanshi

February 7, 2025

AI Predicts Solar Storms : Photo Source - flicker.com

AI

AI Predicts Solar Storms with 1-Minute Accuracy, Safeguarding Tech

A new AI system can now predict dangerous solar storms with unprecedented accuracy, giving vital warning time to protect the technology we use every day. University of Genoa researchers have trained their

Rahul Somvanshi

February 7, 2025

Nature

Arctic’s Borealis Mud Volcano: 7,000-Year-Old Methane Ecosystem

Scientists have found something unexpected in the cold Arctic waters – a mud volcano that works more like a unique deep-sea ecosystem than a typical volcano. Located 400 meters under the Barents

Govind Tekale

February 7, 2025

Reprentative Image. Cooking food. Photo Source: scratsmacker (Pixabay)

Health·USA

New York Bans PFAS in Consumer Goods to Protect Public Health

New York lawmakers have unveiled five bills to protect residents from PFAS – chemicals found in everyday items that never break down in our bodies or environment. From textiles to dental floss,

Tejal Somvanshi

February 6, 2025

Representative image, Llama at Ueno Zoo . Photo Source: Kayo Scrocaro Hisatomi (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Climate·Wildlife

Llama Cousins’ Bathroom Habits Speed Up Andes Recovery as Ice Melts

A wild animal related to llamas is helping bring life back to barren mountain areas in South America through a simple activity – going to the bathroom in the same spots. These

Govind Tekale

February 6, 2025

Representative image. The SPHEREx spacecraft undergoing final preparations. Photo Source: NASA JPL (X Formerly Twitter)

Astronomy·Space

NASA’s SPHEREx to Map 450 Million Galaxies in 102 Infrared Colors, Launching February 27

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, is ready to give us a fresh look at the universe when it launches on February 27, 2025. The $488 million mission will map the entire sky

Karmactive Team

February 5, 2025

Spitzer Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Y. Kim (Univ. of Arizona/Univ. of Chicago). Cassiopeia A Inset: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University), Ilse De Looze (UGent), Tea Temim (Princeton University). Light Echoes Inset: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC).

Discovery·Space

James Webb Telescope Finds Water-Rich Exoplanet Amid Budget Cuts

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful eye we’ve ever had in space, is showing us things we’ve never seen before. But like many big projects, it’s dealing with money problems

Rahul Somvanshi

February 3, 2025