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July 23, 2025, 02:54 PM - 6 min read
Delivering a baby and caring for one in space is a much messier and more complicated process than on Earth, where gravity helps with everything from positioning to feeding.
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March 15, 2025, 01:10 PM - 6 min read
The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s Star are much too faint to be seen directly, so how were they found? The answer lies in the effect of their gravity on the star. The mutual gravitational attraction keeps the planets in their orbits, but also tugs on the star, moving it in a rhythmic dance that can be detected by sensitive spectrograph instruments.
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December 31, 2024, 04:30 PM - 7 min read
The year also saw Indian scientists publish research papers based on the observations of the Chandrayaan-3 mission that landed near the south pole of the moon in 2023.
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September 16, 2024, 09:25 AM - 11 min read
For the past few years, a series of controversies have rocked the well-established field of cosmology. In a nutshell, the predictions of the standard model of the universe appear to be at odds with some recent observations.
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