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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...

How Far Human Civilisation is Detectable in Space 

Earth’s most detectable techno-signatures are the planetary radar transmissions from the erstwhile Arecibo Observatory. The Arecibo message could be detected up to about 12,000...

Blue Ghost: The Commercial Moon Lander Achieves Lunar Soft Landing

On 2 March 2025, Blue Ghost, the moon lander built by the private company Firefly Aerospace touched down safely on lunar surface near a...

World’s Largest Human Gathering as Seen from Space  ,

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission of European Space Agency (ESA) has captured images of Maha Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest human gathering held in the city of Prayagraj...

New Observation of Colourful Twilight Clouds on Mars  

Curiosity rover has captured new images of colourful twilight clouds in the atmosphere of Mars. Called iridescence, this phenomenon is caused due to scattering of light...

Early Solar System had Widespread Ingredients for Life

The asteroid Bennu is an ancient carbonaceous asteroid that has rocks and dusts from the birth of the solar system. It was thought that...

ISRO demonstrates Space Docking Capability  

ISRO has successfully demonstrated space docking capability by joining together two spacecrafts (each weighing about 220 kg) in space.   Space docking creates an airtight...

“Parker Solar Probe” Survives Closest Encounter to Sun  

Parker solar probe has sent signal to Earth today on 27 December 2024 confirming its safety following its closest approach to Sun on 24...

PROBA-3: the first ever “Precision formation flying” Mission   

ESA’s PROBA-3 mission, which lifted off on ISRO’s PSLV-XL rocket on 5 December 2024, is a “solar eclipse-making" two satellite formation of occulter and...

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Meteor Produces Daytime Bolide and Sonic Boom Across New England  

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