Updated: Nov 19th, 2025 Image: NASA NASA’s Perseverance rover has stumbled upon an unusual rock during its recent survey of the Vernodden bedrock area, raising the possibility of a new meteorite discovery on Mars. According to mission updates from NASA, the rover encountered an 80-centimetre-wide, sculpted rock named ‘Phippsaksla’, which stood out sharply from the...
China has reportedly made another major gold discovery, this time beneath the sea off the coast of Laizhou in Yantai city, located in eastern Shandong province. As per reports, the find is being described as the largest undersea gold discovery in Asia so far. According to information shared by the Yantai city government during a...
Updated: Nov 14th, 2025 Chandrayaan-3’s Propulsion Module (CH3-PM) has successfully completed a rare flyby of the Moon, providing valuable data for future lunar missions. Originally part of the historic CH-3 mission that achieved a soft lunar landing on August 23, 2023, the PM had been orbiting the Earth since October 2023 after executing Trans-Earth Injection...
Updated: Dec 22nd, 2025 Fifteen people were killed and 19 others injured in the early hours of Monday in a bus accident at the intersection of the Krapyak toll exit in Semarang city, Indonesia’s Central Java province, local authorities reported. According to the Semarang Search and Rescue Office, the passenger bus was reportedly travelling at...
Updated: Nov 9th, 2025 A groundbreaking pilot study published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that a single gene edit could one day permanently reduce dangerously high cholesterol levels, potentially eliminating the need for lifelong medication. The study ‘Phase 1 Trial of CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Targeting ANGPTL3’, involving just 15 patients with...
Updated: Dec 22nd, 2025 The US Justice Department has restored a photograph that briefly disappeared from a public batch of documents linked to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, after its removal triggered political controversy. Officials confirmed that the image which includes a photograph of President Donald Trump was taken down for less than a day...
Updated: Nov 5th, 2025 A team of researchers from Japan has successfully treated spinal fractures in animal models using stem cells from fatty tissue. The team from the Osaka Metropolitan University used stem cells extracted from adipose — the body’s fatty tissue — to treat spine fractures in rats similar to those caused by osteoporosis...
Updated: Dec 21st, 2025 Following a recent violent incident at the Assistant High Commission of India in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Indian visa operations at the Indian Visa Application Centre (IVAC) in the port city will remain suspended from Sunday until further notice, officials said. They added that any announcement regarding the resumption of visa services would...
Updated: Nov 3rd, 2025 Representative image Supermoon is set to light up the sky on November 5 according to reports. On Wednesday, November 5, at 8:19 am ET (6.49 pm IST), the full moon will peak and this one will not be an ordinary full moon, according to ‘Timeanddate’. It will be the largest and...
Updated: Dec 21st, 2025 At least ten people were killed, and several others sustained injuries after armed assailants opened fire indiscriminately in South Africa’s West Rand region, local media reported on Sunday, citing police officials. According to police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe, the shooting took place at the KwaNoxolo Tavern in the Tambo section of...