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April 17, 2025 7:07 PM

Indian telescope uncovers elusive intermediate-mass black hole

Indian astronomers have detected and measured the properties of an elusive intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) located in a faint galaxy about 4.3 million light-years away, offering new insights into the mysterious “middleweight” class of black holes. The discovery was made using India’s larg...

April 17, 2025 9:42 AM

Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological...

April 16, 2025 10:17 PM

Putin praises Elon Musk, compares him to father of Soviet space program

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news agency TASS reported.   TASS cited Putin, who was speaking on Russia's space policy at a meeting with stud...

April 15, 2025 10:18 PM

Top 10 Indian games to debut at WAVES Summit 2025 in Mumbai

India’s rising talent in game development is set to be in the spotlight as the Top 10 games from the inaugural Road to Game Jam will be showcased at the upcoming WAVES Summit 2025 in Mumbai. The event, to be held from May 1 to 4, is part of the Government of India’s Create in India Challenge: Se...

April 15, 2025 11:57 AM

US steps up probes into pharmaceutical, chip imports, setting stage for tariffs

The Trump administration is proceeding with probes into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on grounds that extensive reliance on foreign production of medicine and chips is a national security threat, Federal Register filings on Monday sh...

April 14, 2025 5:42 PM

AICTE forms expert committee to integrate AI across all academic streams

In a significant step toward transforming technical education in India, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has constituted an expert committee to facilitate the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Applied AI across diverse academic programmes beyond traditional compute...

April 14, 2025 4:07 PM

Blue Origin to fly Katy Perry to edge of space with all-female crew

Pop star Katy Perry, along with five other women, is set to make history by traveling to the edge of space on Monday evening aboard Jeff Bezos’ aerospace venture Blue Origin’s tourist mission. The six-member crew is scheduled to lift off on the company’s reusable New Shepard rocket — NS-31 ...

April 13, 2025 12:54 PM

Irish regulator investigates X over use of EU personal data to train Grok AI

Ireland's data regulator on Saturday said it had opened an investigation into social media platform X over the use of personal data collected from European Union users to train its AI system Grok. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the lead EU regulator for X due to the location of its E...

April 12, 2025 9:27 AM

Webb telescope documents alien planet’s death plunge into a star

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up late in its lifespan, becoming what is called a red giant. New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

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