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The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) announced today that it was successful in docking the two SpaDeX satellites. With this, India has joined an elite club of nations, including the US, Russia and China, that have mastered docking in space. Here’s how it happened

"Contrary to Headlines, Cosmology Isn’t Broken."

This frigid air will be far colder than the event that occurred earlier this month, forecasters say.

While the consequences of adding seawater to ecosystems are not yet well understood, we can gain insights on what to expect by considering the effects of sea-level rise.

Fierce winds and months of drought set the conditions for the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, but the growth of housing in fire-prone areas also played a major role.

The many fires burning around Los Angeles are pressing the limits of firefighting. In an ember storm, every opening in a house is a portal to hell. A vent without a screen, a crack in the siding, a missing roof tile—each is an opportunity for a spark to smolder.

A recent groundbreaking experiment in which anesthesia was administered to rats has convinced some scientists that tiny structures in the rodents’ brains are responsible for the experience of consciousness.

Julianna Scheiman, director of NASA science missions for SpaceX, said it made sense to pair the Firefly and ispace missions on the same Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX stacked the two landers, one on top of the other, inside the Falcon 9's payload fairing.

Can you imagine making an extra $1,000 or more a month on top of your regular salary? A recent Bankrate study revealed that the average American needs to earn about $186,000 a month to live reasonably comfortably; yet the average U.S.

For more than a century, scientists have been fascinated by the possibility that hidden, minuscule spatial dimensions could be influencing the physics of our familiar three-dimensional world.