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What's the point of a space station around the moon?

NASA’s Lunar Gateway Could Redefine How Humans Explore Deep Space

Sumi

Serving as a Strategic Launchpad for Surface Operations (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) NASA’s ambitious Lunar Gateway project positions a compact space station in lunar orbit as a cornerstone of the Artemis program, fueling discussions on its role in future exploration. Serving as a Strategic Launchpad for Surface Operations The Gateway emerged as a key enabler for ...

cave with calm body of water during daytime

Hidden Ocean Beneath the Amazon

Suhail Ahmed

  The Amazon looks like a world of rivers and rain, but the real surprise is what hums below: a slow, sprawling mass of freshwater quietly moving through sandstones, floodplain sands, and ancient valleys. For years, scientists suspected that groundwater kept trees green long after the last storm, but new basin-scale analyses and field studies ...

NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket has a new problem. 'This will almost assuredly impact the March launch window.'

Artemis II Moon Rocket Stumbles on Helium Issue, Eyes April Launch Instead of March

Sumi

Sudden Glitch Follows Rehearsal Triumph (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Kennedy Space Center, Florida — NASA engineers confronted a fresh technical hurdle with the Artemis II Space Launch System rocket, as an interrupted helium flow in its upper stage threatened the mission’s tight schedule.[1][2] Sudden Glitch Follows Rehearsal Triumph Teams celebrated the successful conclusion of the second ...

brown mushroom on focus photography

The Forest That Glows at Night

Suhail Ahmed

Step into a tropical forest after sunset and the world rewrites itself in green. Trails flash faintly, roots hum with a soft halo, and mushrooms sketch ghostly rings along fallen logs like secret signage. For decades, researchers described this glow as a curiosity; now it’s a living signal, revealing how forests breathe, feed, and communicate ...

A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Here's the plan

Scientists Plan Future Interstellar Comet Pursuit as 3I ATLAS Leaves The Solar System

Sumi

The Fury of the Fastest Comet (Image Credits: Unsplash) Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS races outbound through the solar system after its perihelion passage late last year, prompting scientists to devise innovative strategies for a future chase.[1][2] The Fury of the Fastest Comet Discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS survey in Chile, 3I/ATLAS stands as ...

NASA's Perseverance rover now has its own 'GPS' on Mars: 'We've given the rover a new ability'

NASA Rover Now Finds Its Own Way Across the Martian Surface

Sumi

A Leap Forward in Rover Independence (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Mars – NASA’s Perseverance rover has gained the power to locate itself accurately without signals from Earth, marking a significant advance in planetary robotics.[1][2] A Leap Forward in Rover Independence Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory introduced Mars Global Localization, a system that lets the rover ...

Is time a fundamental part of reality? A quiet revolution in physics suggests not

The Theory That Could Redefine The Nature of Time

Sumi

Time’s Puzzling Place in Fundamental Theories (Image Credits: Cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net) Physicists have long grappled with time’s elusive nature, a concept that underpins daily experience yet defies precise definition in the laws of nature.[1][2] Time’s Puzzling Place in Fundamental Theories General relativity portrayed time as malleable, intertwined with space and altered by gravity and velocity. Observers in ...

gray elephant playing with mud

Elephants That Mourn Their Dead

Suhail Ahmed

Under a merciless sun, a family of elephants gathers quietly around a fallen elder, touching the body with careful trunks as if reading a final story written in scent and skin. For decades, scientists called scenes like this mysterious, even anecdotal; now, a new wave of research is piecing together the evidence with rigor. Elephant ...

a group of satellite dishes

Strange Radio Signal Keeps Repeating From Deep Space

Suhail Ahmed

  It starts like a heartbeat where there shouldn’t be one – an electric thump from the dark that returns, vanishes, and then returns again. Astronomers call them repeating fast radio bursts, and they are among the most puzzling signals we’ve ever caught. Each pulse lasts a blink, yet carries the energy of days of ...

bird's flying over sea

Bird That Matches Your Zodiac Energy

Suhail Ahmed

  Across cultures, people have looked to the sky for signs, stories, and patterns, and birds have always been the messengers in that vast theater. Today, scientists track those same birds with GPS tags, bioacoustic sensors, and machine-learning tools, revealing astonishing details about how they move, choose mates, and survive. Here’s the twist: elemental zodiac ...