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In 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…
The 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…
Solar-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…
India 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…
Vikram 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…
Chandrayaan-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 …
A 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 …
Scientists 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….
Narrow 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…
Citations 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…
Paediatrician 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…
Two brave women stand up for human rights as hordes of Uzbeks are dragged from their workplaces to pick state cotton, in this compelling documentary exposing farming practices only just outlawedAs a child growing up in Uzbekistan, film-maker Michael Bo…
Hakuto-R may have miscalculated altitude, says company after losing contact with spacecraftJapan’s ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander when it unexpected…
Scientists calculate 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano released 1,000 times more energy than Hiroshima bombA huge underwater volcanic event in Tonga last year was of a magnitude comparable with the most powerful nuclear detonation by t…
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the diseaseAloka Gonju didn’t take much notice of the discoloured patch of skin on her left hand until her fingers began to stiffen and hurt. It became a struggle to …