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On 2 September, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were put into ‘sleep mode’ to protect their electrical components during the brutal two-week nightHopes are fading for the “re-awakening” of India’s moon lander after Indian scientists were unable to …
Read MoreWHO says China facing ‘sustained community transmission’ of virus first detected as imported case last yearChina is fuelling a global surge in mpox cases, accounting for the majority of new cases reported in September, according to the World Health Or…
Read MoreLeaders meet at far-eastern base, which most recently hosted ill-fated launch of Luna-25 spacecraftFor his meeting with Kim Jong-un of North Korea, Vladimir Putin has chosen to show off one of his pet projects: a modern cosmodrome he had built in the r…
Read MoreResearchers used genetic analysis to identify species that cannot be distinguished by appearance aloneSeven new leaf insect species, known as “walking leaves”, have been discovered.The insects exhibit a sophisticated “twigs and leaf-like” camouflage al…
Read MoreIn today’s newsletter: The country’s lunar landing was a triumph. This is how it quietly built a successful mission• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Last week India became the fourth ever country to land a spacecraft on…
Read MoreThe success of Chandrayaan-3 goes well beyond providing images from the moon’s south pole“I let out an involuntary whoop when it landed,” my friend Shivansh told me. He was travelling on London Underground at the time. “Everyone on the tube was staring…
Read MoreSolar-powered vehicle will spend two weeks roaming lunar surface to help scientists understand geology of moonIndia’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has rolled its rover on to the moon’s surface after its successful landing at the lunar south pole.The Indian…
Read MoreIndia has raised its spacefaring profile and will now be seen as low-cost provider for missions possibleFor all the risks, for all that was riding on a successful landing, the descent to the moon’s surface was remarkably uneventful, if not exactly stre…
Read MoreVikram lander touches down at lunar south pole shortly after 6pm India time India has become the first country to successfully land a spacecraft near the south pole of the moon, in a historic moment that drew cheers at watching parties around the count…
Read MoreChandrayaan-3 launches from island in southern India in follow-up to failed effort four years agoAn Indian spacecraft has blazed its way towards the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover …
Read MoreA rocket engine exploded during a test in Japan on Friday, the latest in a series of failures that have deflated Tokyo’s space ambitions. The explosion took place about a minute into the test of the second-stage engine at a Japan Aerospace Exploration …
Read MoreScientists in India believe they can explain why the region has weaker gravitational pullSomewhere roughly in the middle of the Indian Ocean is the deepest dent in Earth’s gravitational field – the place where Earth’s gravitational pull is the weakest….
Read MoreNarrow 11,000-metre shaft will reach the Earth’s crust to study internal structures as China seeks to explore new frontiersChina has begun digging its deepest borehole in an effort to study areas of the planet deep beneath the surface.The drilling of t…
Read MoreCitations of Chinese research have risen because of sequencing of Covid-19 genomeChina has overtaken the US to become the biggest contributor to nature-science journals, in a sign of the country’s growing influence in the world of academic research.The…
Read MorePaediatrician and geneticist determined to save the lives of children in countries where malaria is endemicMalaria kills more than half a million people every year, mostly children under the age of five in Africa. Saving the lives of those children was…
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