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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...

New Most Detailed Images of the Star-forming Region NGC 604 

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken near-infrared and mid-infrared images of the star-forming region NGC 604, located nearby in the neighbourhood of home...

Prospect of Life in Europa’s Ocean: Juno Mission finds low Oxygen Production  

Europa, one of the largest satellites of Jupiter has a thick water-ice crust and a vast subsurface saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface hence...

First Direct Detection of Neutron Star Formed in Supernova SN 1987A  

In a study reported recently, astronomers observed the SN 1987A remnant using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The results showed emission lines of ionized...

LignoSat2 will be made of Magnolia wood

LignoSat2, the first wooden artificial satellite developed by Kyoto University’s Space Wood Laboratory is scheduled to be jointly launched by JAXA and NASA this year....

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC): NASA tests Laser  

Radio frequency based deep space communication faces constraints due to low bandwidth and increasing need of high data transmission rates. Laser or optical based...

LISA Mission: Space-based Gravitational Wave detector gets ESA’s go ahead 

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission has received the go ahead of European Space Agency (ESA). This paves the way for developing the...

Have Astronomers discovered the first “Pulsar – Black hole” binary system? 

Astronomers have reported detection of a compact object of about 2.35 solar masses in the globular cluster NGC 1851 in our home galaxy Milky...

near-Earth asteroid 2024 BJ to make closest approach to Earth  

On 27 January 2024, an airplane-sized, near-Earth asteroid 2024 BJ will pass Earth at a closest distance of 354,000 Km.  It will come as close as 354,000...

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