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Saturday, August 2, 2025
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Topic: Solar System

It’s official: New object zipping through our solar system is the 3rd known interstellar visitor

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Astronomers witness Sun-like star ‘swallow a planet’ for 1st time, confirming Earth’s fate in 5 bn yrs

Lead author of the study, conducted by researchers at MIT in collaboration with Harvard and Caltech, and published in Nature, says the discovery tells us 'where we are going'.

Huge Tonga volcanic eruption this year led to bloom of microscopic marine life, find scientists

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

A mission to Uranus would be expensive, time-consuming but worth it

Scientists have confirmed over 5,000 planets orbiting stars in other parts of the galaxy. Lack of knowledge about Uranus & Neptune is a limiting factor in understanding planetary science.

Astronomers discover first planet that survived its star’s death, still orbits white dwarf

The planet, situated 6,500 light years away, is like Jupiter in size and relative location. The discovery indicates that some of our solar system's planets could survive the death of the Sun.

Asteroid with shortest orbital period in solar system spotted & human DNA from 7,200 years ago

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

For the first time, scientists ‘see’ black holes swallowing neutron stars

Team of international scientists, including those from India, confirms detecting collisions between black holes and neutron stars by analysing gravitational waves created in January 2020.

Red star Betelgeuse, one of the brightest, not going supernova soon. It just coughed up dust

The bright red star underwent a Great Dimming in 2019-20, prompting some astronomers to speculate if it would go supernova. Findings help us understand giant stars better.

NASA announces two new missions to Venus as it seeks to ‘rediscover the planet’

The VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will aim to understand how and why Venus became supremely hot, even when it shares so many characteristics to Earth.

1,000 yrs for a trip around Sun — scientists map orbit of most distant object in solar system

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

On Camera

Why worry about water or jobs? In New Bharat, everybody wants to be an influencer

In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.