ISRO successfully launches PSLV-C59 rocket with European Space Agency’s Proba-3 satellites The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Thursday (December 5, 2024) announced that it has successfully launched the PSLV-C59 mission with the European Space Agency’s Proba-3 satellites from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The two satellites onboard PSLV rocket of Proba-3 mission separated successfully, ISRO […]

4-billion-year-old crystal offers oldest evidence of water on Mars Premium Water is ubiquitous on Earth – about 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and inside rocks. Geologic evidence suggests water has been stable on Earth since about 4.3 billion years ago. The history of water on […]

Can science’s peer-review system guarantee academic rigour? Premium Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It’s the process through which research ends up published in an academic journal: independent experts scrutinise the work of another researcher in order to recommend if it should be accepted by a publisher and if and how it […]