NASA cites tropical cyclone hovering near Andaman Islands

It was North America's first total eclipse since 2017 and it won't appear across this part of the world again until 2046. For the first time in nearly a century, the western and northern regions of New York State saw a total eclipse.

Astronomers got a special treat on August 30 when a rare celestial event known as a Super Blue Moon became visible in the sky across the nation. A blue moon has nothing to do with the colour of the Moon. NASA defines it as the second full moon in a single month. "Once in a blue moon" occurs every two and a half years on average.

Oceanic islands can be used as models for ecology, biogeography, and evolutionary studies. Many groundbreaking discoveries, including Darwin's theory of evolution, have resulted from the study of island species and their interactions with their living and non-living environments. An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has now investigated the flora of Tenerife, a Canary Island. The results were unexpected: the island's plant life has a remarkable variety of forms. In terms of functionality, the plants differ little from mainland plants. However, unlike the mainland's flora, Tenerife's flora is dominated by slow-growing, woody shrubs with a "low-risk" life strategy. Nature published the findings.

The official mission logbook now lists the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's 52nd flight as a success. The trip took place on April 26 but mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California lost communication with the chopper as it dropped towards the surface for landing.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured incredible images of the Sun emitting a strong solar flare.

Renowned UAE astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi shared stunning pictures of the severe cyclonic storm 'Biparjoy' from space.

While sunsets on Mars are uniquely moody, NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a stunning image of a martian sunset, featuring light rays that illuminated a bank of clouds as the sun set over the horizon.

In the Maldives and other low-lying nations, artificially boosting island heights or building whole new higher islands have been advocated as remedies to sea-level rise.

An international team including Southwest Research Institute, Leiden University and NASA used observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to achieve the darkest-ever view of a dense interstellar cloud. These observations have revealed the composition of a virtual treasure chest of ice from the early universe, providing new insights into the chemical processes of one of the coldest, darkest places in the universe as well as the origins of the molecules that make up planetary atmospheres.

Amino acids make up millions of proteins that drive the chemical gears of life, including essential bodily functions in animals. Because of amino acids' relationship to living things scientists are eager to understand the origins of these molecules. After all, amino acids may have helped spawn life on Earth after being delivered here about 4 billion years ago by pieces of asteroids or comets.