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Voyager 1 Nears One Light-Day from Earth
NASA’s Voyager 1 is projected to become the first human-made object one light-day from Earth at 10:16 UTC on 18 November 2026, about 25.902 billion kilometres (16.094 billion...
Scientists Build Whole-Earth Simulation for Exoplanet Habitability
On November 2, 2026, University of Washington researchers announced a virtual Earth simulation designed to help identify life on other planets. Led by Samantha Gilbert-Janizek, the model traces...
MeitY Launches Handbook for Safe Data Sharing in AI Training
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched the Handbook on Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for AI Training on 31 October 2026. MeitY Secretary S....
Aditya-L1 Detects Asymmetric Expansion of Solar Eruption
Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, published a study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on 3 November 2026 describing the asymmetric expansion of a solar...
Vultr Launches 20-MW AI Supercluster in Chennai
U.S.-based cloud infrastructure provider Vultr launched a 20-megawatt (MW) artificial intelligence supercluster in Chennai on 2 November 2026. The facility, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, is expected...
IceCube Detects Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos
On 2 November 2026, scientists reported detecting cosmic neutrinos with energies about 10 billion times higher than typical solar neutrinos using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica. Detecting...
Dr. Reddy’s Wins Tentative FDA Approval for Lenacapavir
On 2 November 2026, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories received tentative approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for a generic, twice-yearly injectable form of lenacapavir for HIV...
Oxygen Collisions Recreate Primordial Matter at RHIC
On 30 October 2026, scientists with the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, announced evidence of quark-gluon...
Assam to Set Up India’s First Public-Sector Proton Therapy Centre
On 31 October 2026, the Assam government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Belgium-based Ion Beam Applications (IBA) Particles to establish India’s first public-sector proton beam therapy...
MBARI Films Barreleye Fish in 4K for First Time
Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) filmed a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma) in 4K for the first time during an October 2026 expedition off Central...
Hyderabad Facility Targets Personalised mRNA Cancer Vaccines
Hyderabad-based biotechnology startup PopVax launched the RNA Foundry in Hyderabad on 31 October 2026. The integrated research, development and manufacturing facility is dedicated to RNA medicines, including personalised...
