The Indian space agency ISRO has released the first images of the Pragyan rover touching the lunar surface after descending from the Vikram lander of the Chandrayaan 3 mission. A short video posted by ISRO on its Instagram account shows…
Science and technology owe much to Ancient Greece. It was precisely in one of its colonies, around the 6th century BC, that Thales of Miletus, one of the first philosophers and scientists in history, was born. His curiosity led him to discover…
Hundreds of mummified bees inside their cocoons, produced almost 3,000 years ago, have been discovered at a new paleontological site off the coast of Odemira, Portugal. The discovery has been published in the journal 'Papers in Pa…
Since Charles Darwin, the theory has reigned that hominids, the family of primates that stood on their hind legs and from which orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and also humans descend, originated in Africa and from there spread to the rest of the world.
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, seeing the same perfect sphere of light we see today—sometimes whiter, sometimes redder, depending on the time of day. Over time, our telescopes revealed more and more details of this star that had never been seen before.
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpectedly smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot has been observed on the planet with a telescope on Earth…
India's lunar adventure continues. After successfully completing the first soft landing on our satellite's south pole, the Chandrayaan-3 mission is proceeding as planned, and its lunar rover, Pragyaan (whose name means 'wisdom'…
The Indian Space Agency's (ISRO) success with landing the Vikram probe on its Chandrayaan-3 mission contrasts sharply with Russia's failure with Luna-25. In recent years, we have seen renewed interest in lunar exploration, a result of…
The Moon has always attracted humankind's attention, and in the coming years it will be one of the most visited destinations in the Solar System. This Wednesday, India became the first country to reach the moon's south pole, one of the most…
The anticipation on August 23rd was at its highest. After Russia's recent failure with its Luna-25 probe, the entire world breathed a sigh of relief when the Indian probe Chandrayaan-3 landed at 2:34 p.m. Spanish time near the lunar south pole…