On the 19th of July 2020, the Emirates Mars Mission EMM – the first Arab interplanetary mission – was launched in the direction of Mars alongside two other space missions (Tianwen-2020 from China and Mars 2020 from the USA) to …
All Eyes On The UAE: The Country’s Space Probe Prepares To Enter The Orbit Of Mars. Read More »
Today, it’s the 18th anniversary of the fateful day when Columbia’s last space shuttle mission suffered a catastrophic and fatal end on February 1, 2003, taking away the life of its 7 onboard crew members. Columbia disintegrated over Texas during …
The Columbia Space Disaster: How We Lost Seven Brilliant Astronauts In A Split Second. Read More »
“We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of Earth’ to ‘touch the face of God”… …This is what President …
35 Years Ago on This Day, Mankind Witnessed One of the Deadliest Space Disasters. Read More »
Gene-editing technology is arguably the fastest developing branch of science in the 21st century. The invention of the CRISPR-Cas9 method began a revolution in gene-altering because it’s both cheaper and more efficient than previous techniques. The founders won the Nobel …
What Is CRISPR-CaS9 Genome Editing Technique, And Why Has It Become So Controversial? Read More »
Always imagined as encompassing the sun, the star closest to our planet, a Dyson Sphere is, more generally speaking, a hypothetical megastructure – an enormous self-supporting artificial construct, which is entirely wrapped around a star to channel its power output …
The Brilliant Concept Behind a Cosmic Megastructure to Capture All of the Sun’s Energy. Read More »
The Landings of SpaceX’s Flacon 9 On August 18th, 2020, SpaceX pushed its achievements to unseen boundaries in the realm of reusable launch systems by successfully landing one of its Falcon 9 boosters for the 6th consecutive time. To that …
Theoretical Background of ITER New technologies often use devices and substances that are very different from what classical physics first revealed to scientists. The fourth, lesser-known state of matter, is called plasma and consists of ions and free electrons. Plasma …
NASA’s Voyager Program has always maintained its aura for being one of the most exciting missions ever undertaken by the space agency. Since their launch in 1977, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have never failed to steal the limelight. And …
Are You There?! NASA Sent A Message To Voyager 2 After A Long Radio Silence. Read More »
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission The recent asteroid study and sample-return mission OSIRIS-REx (an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer), operated by NASA and manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is now set to depart from the vicinity of the …
This article on machine learning in astronomy is a guest article by Krishna Bhutada, an Engineering student from Pune, India. What Is Machine Learning? Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides systems the ability to automatically …
How Is Machine Learning Soon Going To Change Our Modest Understanding Of The Universe? Read More »
This is a guest article by Abha Vishwakarma Half a century has passed since humankind stepped onto the Moon. ‘One step for a man, one giant leap for mankind’, in the words of Armstrong. Yet so hostile did it prove …
Whenever we talk about space missions, it’s almost impossible that Voyager’s name won’t erupt out from somewhere. The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, that were launched in 1977 …
What Voyager 1 (Earth’s Farthest Spacecraft) Saw In Its Cosmic Journey of 43 Years? Read More »
Exploring the Red Planet has always been an objective for space agencies. Over the past 30+ years, we have sent dozens of missions to Mars, in the hope to understand and decode the formation for our solar system and look …
Perseverance: Everything You Need To Know About The Mars 2020 Rover Read More »
This article on IRAS is a guest article by Anja Sjöström, an IB diploma student from Switzerland. As a joint project to survey the sky in infrared (IR) in order to better understand phenomena invisible to the human eye, the …
IRAS: The Sky Survey That Proved To Be A Turning Point In Astronomy. Read More »
Japan is home to some of the most brilliant physicists of our age. It’s been like that for a long time now, and in today’s article, I will introduce you to one of their greatest instruments, the Super-Kamiokande Observatory. How …
Super-Kamiokande: Decoding Nature’s Ghost Particles Read More »
