21st September Solar eclipse: What phases of the eclipse will unfold for viewers?
September 2025 can now be declared as the month of ‘Cosmic Theatre’. As the world is waiting for…
Themis stands on the launch pad
Enabling & Support 19/09/2025 196 views 3 likes In brief The first model of ESA’s reusable rocket demonstrator…
Image of Titan taken 20 years ago continues to surprise scientists
On January 14, 2005, the European-built Huygens probe touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. With that single…
6,000 Planets Beyond Our Solar System Discovered : ScienceAlert
The age of exoplanets began in 1992, when astronomers detected a pair of planets orbiting a pulsar. Then,…
Doubt Creeps Into Hayabusa 2’s Planned Visit To Its Next Asteroid
In November 2019, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission departed the asteroid Ryugu after 1.5 years of observations. It had…
Russia’s Space Chief Touts ‘Rapid’ Development of Starlink Rival
With more than 6 million active users, SpaceX’s Starlink has become the world’s leading provider of high-speed satellite…
This Star’s Violent Feeding Frenzy May End in a Blinding Supernova
A doomed star system is hurtling toward a supernova that could light up Earth’s sky. Credit: Shutterstock Astronomers…
Bad News And Good News: Hycean Worlds Aren’t Real, But Earth’s Water Isn’t Unusual
K2-18b is a sub-Neptune about 124 light-years away from Earth first detected in 2015. Follow-up research found water…
Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time
An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake.…
Where are all the ‘hot Neptune’ exoplanets? Orbital chaos may have booted them out
Astronomers have launched a new program known as ATREIDES to study a mysterious “desert” in space. But unlike…
From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II – NASA (.gov)
From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II NASA (.gov)NASA Artemis II Moon Rocket Ready to Fly…
‘It was the realization of a dream that we had chased for decades.’ Powerful cosmic winds around neutron star reveal secrets of monster black holes
Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star —…