Deep in the Arizona desert sits a $200 million experiment most people have never heard of. Built to replicate Earth and prepare humans for life in space, it quickly exposed how little we understand ...

Shukla's research did not originate from experiments conducted on ISS, but from the Mechanical Engineering Department of the ...

Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla's new avatar is ready. Apart from being an astronaut and the first Indian to fly to the International Space Station (ISS), he is also a scientist now.

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The mummified skeleton “Ada” discovered in Chile was a human child with skeletal disorders, not an extraterrestrial being.

Artemis II, the next mission in NASA’s Artemis program to explore the Moon, is scheduled to launch from Florida within the ...

For the first time, clumps of human cells called organoids were fully integrated with the brains of rats—and influenced their behavior.

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

DeepMind’s AlphaGenome AI model could help solve the problem of predicting how variations in noncoding DNA shape gene ...

AlphaGenome is a leap forward in the ability to study the human blueprint. But the fine workings of our DNA are still largely ...

Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Prof. Radhavallabh Tripathi, Sanskrit scholar and ex-Vice Chancellor of the premier Central Sanskrit University in Delhi, ...