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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...

The Oldest Black hole from the Early Universe Challenges the Model of Black hole Formation  

Astronomers have detected the oldest (and the most distant) black hole from the early universe which dates from 400 million years after the big...

JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) achieves Lunar soft-landing capability  

JAXA, Japan’s space agency has successfully soft landed “Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM)” on lunar surface. This makes Japan fifth country to have...

Mars Rovers: Two decades of landing of Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Red Planet

Two decades ago, two Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars on 3rd and 24th January 2004, respectively to look for evidence that...

The Fast Radio Burst, FRB 20220610A originated from a novel source  

Fast Radio Burst FRB 20220610A, the most powerful radio burst ever observed was detected on 10 June 2022. It had originated from a source...

Will failure of Lunar Lander ‘Peregrine Mission One’ affect NASA’s ‘Commercialisation’ efforts?   

The lunar lander, ‘Peregrine Mission One,’ built by ‘Astrobotic Technology’ under NASA’s ‘Commercial Lunar Payload Services’ (CLPS) initiative was launched into space on 8...

‘Gateway’ Lunar Space Station of ‘Artemis Mission’: UAE to provide an Airlock  

UAE’s MBR Space Centre has collaborated with NASA to provide an airlock for the first lunar space station Gateway that will orbit the Moon...

Solar observatory spacecraft, Aditya-L1 inserted in Halo-Orbit 

The solar observatory spacecraft, Aditya-L1 was successfully inserted in Halo-Orbit about 1.5 million km away from earth on 6th January 2024. It was launched on 2nd September 2023 by...

Brown Dwarfs (BDs): James Webb Telescope Identifies Smallest Object formed in a Star-like manner 

Stars have a life cycle spanning a few million to trillions of years. They are born, undergo changes with the passage of time and...

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Meteor Produces Daytime Bolide and Sonic Boom Across New England  

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