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Meteor Produces Daytime Bolide and Sonic Boom Across New England  

A loud sonic boom was heard and a fireball seen around 18:06 UTC Saturday 30 May 2026 across New England in the northeastern region of the United States. The bright fireball (bolide) was...

Dark Matter in the Centre of our Home Galaxy 

Fermi telescope made clean observation of excess γ-ray emission at the centre of our home galaxy which appeared non-spherical and flattened. Referred as Galactic...

Axiom Mission 4: Dragon capsule Grace returns to Earth

The Ax-4 astronauts have returned to Earth after a 22.5-hour journey back from the International Space Station (ISS) where they spent 18 days. The...

Detection of Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation from a Very Distant Galaxy AUDFs01

Astronomers usually get to hear from the far-off galaxies through high energy radiations like X-rays. It is extremely uncommon to receive relatively lower energy...

Perseverance: What is so Special About the Rover of NASA’s Mission Mars 2020

NASA’s ambitious mars mission Mars 2020 was successfully launched on 30 July 2020. Perseverance is the name of the rover.   The main task of Perseverance is to seek signs of ancient...

Flares from the Supermassive Binary Black Hole OJ 287 put constraint on the “No Hair Theorem”

NASA’s infra-red observatory Spitzer has recently observed the flare from gigantic binary black hole system OJ 287, within the estimated time interval predicted by...

PHILIP: Laser-Powered Rover to Explore Super-Cold Lunar Craters for Water

Though data from orbiters have suggested presence of water ice, the exploration of lunar craters in the polar regions of moon has not been...

Abell 2384: The New Twist in the Story of Merger of Two ‘Galaxy Clusters’

X-ray and radio observation of galaxy system Abell 2384 reveals collision of two galaxy clusters that travelled through each other forming a binodal system...

PROBA-V Completes 7 years in the Orbit Serving Humankind

The Belgian satellite PROBA-V, developed by European Space Agency has completed 7 years in orbit providing daily data on the state of vegetation at...

Extra-Terrestrial: Search for Signatures of Life

Astrobiology suggest that life is abundant in the universe and the primitive microbial life forms (beyond earth) could be found earlier than intelligent forms....

The First Ever Image of The Shadow of a Black Hole

Scientists have successfully taken first ever picture of the shadow of a black hole providing direct observation of its immediate environment The super-massive black holes...

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Meteor Produces Daytime Bolide and Sonic Boom Across New England  

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