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Significance of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (commonly referred to as Roman Telescope) is set to be launched into space on 30 August 2026. It will...

NASA Invites ISRO to Join Moon Base Programme

NASA has invited ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) to join its “Moon Base programme” under Artemis Mission towards partnership in deep-space endeavour. This initiative to...

2026 Total Solar Eclipse

On 12 August 2026, a total solar eclipse was observed in the Northern Hemisphere across Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and...

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...

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...

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