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Is the Sun waking up faster than scientists expected?

Nasa research reveals that the Sun’s activity has been steadily increasing since 2008, reversing decades of decline. This unexpected surge is driving stronger solar winds and more frequent solar storms that could disrupt satellites, GPS systems, and power grids while posing challenges for upcoming lunar and deep space missions

Life on Mars discovered? What rocks found on Red Planet reveals

Nasa’s Perseverance Rover has collected unusual reddish rocks thought to be billions of years old that present some of the strongest clues yet about possible past life on Mars. Researchers believe the markings on these rocks contain minerals formed through chemical reactions that could be connected to ancient Martian microbes

Nasa bars Chinese nationals from joining its projects as space race intensifies

The move comes amid escalating anti-China rhetoric under President Donald Trump's administration. The United States and China are competing to send crews to the Moon

FirstUp: EU panel to visit India, nationwide shutdown in France... today's top headlines

The European Union’s Political and Security Committee (PSC) will make its maiden visit to India. A nationwide shutdown is planned in France amid the political crisis. Nasa is set to share details from the findings of the new Perseverance Mars rover during a press conference at its headquarters in Washington

Nasa halting 41 key missions due to Trump's fund cuts, agency’s funding at lowest since 1961

Nasa faces the halt of 41 missions as Trump’s cuts push its budget to the lowest level since 1961

History Today: When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia

Troops from the Soviet Union, along with other members of the Warsaw Pact, invaded Czechoslovakia on August 20, 1968. This came as a result of the Prague Spring, a liberal uprising that planned to introduce reforms like greater freedom of the press, speech, and travel in the region. On this day in 1944, former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was born into India’s most prominent political family

This Week in Explainers: Why Israel is planning to seize Gaza City despite calls to end war

Israel has decided to seize control of Gaza City despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing increasing pressure to end the war with Hamas. All this and more in our weekly wrap from around the world

US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dies in Chicago at 97

The former Navy pilot, who was portrayed by actor Tom Hanks in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13," died in a Chicago suburb on Thursday, the US space agency said in a statement

A new space race: Why US is rushing plans for a nuclear reactor on the Moon

This isn’t science fiction but reality. Nasa is fast-tracking plans for a powerful nuclear power reactor on the Moon. Here’s how this plan could change space exploration for everyone

History Today: When humans drove on the Moon for the first time

It was on July 31, 1971, that humans drove on the surface of the Moon for the first time using the Lunar Roving Vehicle. As part of Nasa's Apollo 15 mission, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove the LRV for a total of 27.76 kilometres (17.25 miles) and enabling them to explore diverse geological features