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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre leads India's leap into human spaceflight

Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre leads India's leap into human spaceflight

New Delhi: India is embarking on a Human Spaceflight programme, to carry humans to Earth orbit and return them safely with an ocean splashdown, using...

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Webb Space Telescope peers into star factory in Phoenix Galaxy Cluster

Webb Space Telescope peers into star factory in Phoenix Galaxy Cluster

New Delhi: Astronomers have been observing the Phoenix Galaxy Cluster at a distance of 5.8 billion lightyears from the Earth for over a decade, using...

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How NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams measures weight in space

How NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams measures weight in space

New Delhi: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams can be seen in the image above using a specialised device to measure the mass of the attached astronaut. The...

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ISRO successfully tests compatibility of European ground stations for Gaganyaan flights

ISRO successfully tests compatibility of European ground stations for Gaganyaan flights

New Delhi: In December 2024, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that it had signed an agreement with the European Space Agency...

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IIT Madras successfully boots up ISRO's space-grade Shakti processor

IIT Madras successfully boots up ISRO's space-grade Shakti processor

New Delhi: The aerospace-grade, indigenously developed Shakti microprocessor has been booted up for the first time at IIT Madras. The realisation of...

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NASA awards SpaceX contract to launch Pandora exoplanet telescope

NASA awards SpaceX contract to launch Pandora exoplanet telescope

New Delhi: NASA has awarded the contract for the launch of the Pandora satellite to characterise the atmospheres of exoplanets to SpaceX. During the...

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Unexpected supernova remnants discovered in outskirts of neighbouring dwarf galaxy

Unexpected supernova remnants discovered in outskirts of neighbouring dwarf galaxy

New Delhi: Europe’s XMM-Newton telescope has discovered a pair of supernova remnants in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small dwarf...

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Webb Space Telescope to study potential Earth impactor asteroid 2024 YR4

Webb Space Telescope to study potential Earth impactor asteroid 2024 YR4

New Delhi: The asteroid 2024 YR4 discovered in 2024 has a two per cent chance of striking the Earth on 22 December, 2032. In a few months time, the...

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Blue Ghost by Firefly Aerospace starts four day hop to Moon

Blue Ghost by Firefly Aerospace starts four day hop to Moon

New Delhi: Firefly Aerospace has announced that it has successfully executed the burn for the translunar injection of the Blue Ghost Moon Lander. The...

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NASA demos autonomous satellite swarm ops

NASA demos autonomous satellite swarm ops

New Delhi: NASA has demonstrated a novel technology called Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA) that allows satellites in a swarm to work towards a...

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Coronal hole to cause geomagnetic storm on 10 Feb

Coronal hole to cause geomagnetic storm on 10 Feb

New Delhi: The Space Weather Prediction Centre (SWPC) operated by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has issued an alert...

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Intuitive Machines to send Micro Hopper to surface of Moon

Intuitive Machines to send Micro Hopper to surface of Moon

New Delhi: Intuitive Machines, the private US company that paved the way for commercial operations on the lunar surface with the Odysseus Moon Lander...

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Intuitive Machines to fly its second Moon Lander no sooner than 26 Feb

Intuitive Machines to fly its second Moon Lander no sooner than 26 Feb

New Delhi: The second Intuitive Machines mission to the Lunar Surface is slotted to fly on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no sooner than 26 February. The...

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ISRO carries out vacuum ignition test of indigenous cryogenic rocket engine

ISRO carries out vacuum ignition test of indigenous cryogenic rocket engine

New Delhi: ISRO has announced that it has successfully carried out the ignition trial of the CE20 cryogenic engine. The indigenously developed engine...

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Earth got temporary radiation belts after May 2024 Solar Storm

Earth got temporary radiation belts after May 2024 Solar Storm

New Delhi: Temporary radiation belts are often formed after major Solar Storms, in addition to the permanent Van Allen belts that trap energetic...

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AI helps scientists match fresh impact craters with quakes on Mars

AI helps scientists match fresh impact craters with quakes on Mars

New Delhi: Scientists have used AI to match signals of Marsquakes detected by the InSight lander, with images of fresh impact craters captured by the...

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Salamanders control blood flow to toes to enhance grip

Salamanders control blood flow to toes to enhance grip

New Delhi: During the filming of a documentary named The Americas, a salamander expert Christian Brown and the camera assistant William Goldenberg...

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Microbe collection during NASA spacewalk helps noble goal of protecting life on all worlds

Microbe collection during NASA spacewalk helps noble goal of protecting life on all worlds

New Delhi: NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore completed a scheduled spacewalk an hour ahead of time, dislodging a degrading piece of...

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Webb stuns astronomers by discovering a 'Super Venus' exoplanet

Webb stuns astronomers by discovering a 'Super Venus' exoplanet

New Delhi: The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its sensitive infrared gaze towards the exoplanet designated as GJ 1214 b, at a distance of 48...

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NASA to expeditiously return Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore following Trump demand

NASA to expeditiously return Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore following Trump demand

New Delhi: NASA has committed to expeditiously return astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, the pilot and commander of the first Boeing...

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Astronomers spot supermassive black holes cooking their own meals

Astronomers spot supermassive black holes cooking their own meals

New Delhi: Supermassive black holes constantly grow increasingly massive by feasting on surrounding gas and dust, as well as any wayward star systems....

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New Moon today provides clear skies for Planetary Parade

New Moon today provides clear skies for Planetary Parade

New Delhi: Today is the first New Moon night of 2025, with the Moon reaching perihelion yesterday, or the closest point it will get to the Sun over...

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ISRO successfully launches GSLV-F15 mission for navigation satellite

ISRO successfully launches GSLV-F15 mission for navigation satellite

New Delhi: At 06:23 hours IST on the dot, the tallest operational rocket in ISRO’s fleet, the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mark II...

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2025 Maha Kumbh captured from International Space Station by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit

New Delhi: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit has shared images of the 2025 Maha Kumbh captured from the International Space Station (ISS). This is the largest...

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ISRO’s NVS-02 to deliver lightning-fast location services across India

New Delhi: ISRO has slotted the GSLV-F15/NVS-02 flight on 29 January, 2025, at 06:23 hours IST. The atomic clocks on ISRO’s navigation constellation...

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First mid-infrared flare detected from Milky Way’s central black hole

New Delhi: Since the 1990s, scientists have recorded a number of flares from the supermassive black hole occupying the core of the Milky Way in...

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Universe is teeming with hidden supermassive black holes

New Delhi: Scientists have uncovered evidence that there are many more supermassive black holes lurking in the universe than previously believed....

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Gaia shuts eyes after ten years of mapping Milky Way

New Delhi: ESA’s Gaia instrument began science operations in 2014, and has now stopped its observations. The instrument was designed with the...

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SpaceX loses Starship on Flight 7

New Delhi: At 04:07 hours IST, The SpaceX Starship Flight 7 lifted off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, USA into clear blue skies. The trajectory...

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Hubble spots Blue Lurker in Open Cluster

New Delhi: Star clusters are associations of stars that are born around the same time. They may either be spherical clusters that assume a roughly...

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Webb captures interstellar medium in light of dead star

New Delhi: About 350 years ago, Cassiopeia A at a distance of 11,000 years ran out of nuclear fuel. The core of the massive star collapsed, resulting...

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Webb space telescope tracks expanding shells around exotic binary star system

New Delhi: Astronomers have observed the formation and expansion of dust shells around a star system designated as Wolf-Rayet 140. The binary star...

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Watch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch two Moon Landers today

New Delhi: A SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida USA, at 11:41 hours IST. If...

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SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully deploys satellites from 3 Indian startups

New Delhi: The SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter 12 mission was a dedicated multisatellite flight with over 130 payloads on board. The rocket lifted off...

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Planets can survive death of their stars

New Delhi: Gas and dust, the raw material of star formation are is found in molecular clouds called stellar nurseries. A supernova explosion from a...

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Multi-year drilling campaign successfully reaches bedrock beneath Anarctic Ice Sheet

New Delhi: For the first time, scientists have drilled through the entire Antarctic ice sheet, reaching the bedrock beneath. The collected samples are...

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Dormancy may have been life’s first survival strategy

New Delhi: The primordial Earth was a hostile environment, with a thick, toxic atmosphere devoid of life. Ultraviolet light harmful to cells would...

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ISRO's SpaDex satellites spot each other 105m apart

New Delhi: ISRO has released an image of the two SpaDex satellites capturing each other through onboard video cameras. The two satellites are closer...

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ISRO has a new Chairman, V Narayanan

New Delhi: S Somanath’s reign as ISRO Chairman will come to an end on 15 January, 2025 after two short years with the appointment of Dr V Narayanan...

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Bats surf storms to cross continents

New Delhi: Bats are known to travel thousands of kilometres in continental migrations across North America, Europe and Africa, but the behaviour is...

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Cowpeas sprout leaves in space for first time on ISRO's POEM-4 platform

New Delhi: A couple of days ago, ISRO shared the first images of cowpea plants sprouting within the Compact Research Module for Orbital Plant...

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Dinosaur highway discovered in UK

New Delhi: Scientists from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have made the stunning discovery of multiple trackways, or fossil footprints...

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ISRO's GSLV-F15 flight in Jan 2025 will be its 100th orbital launch

New Delhi: On 30 December 2024, at 22:00 hours IST, ISRO’s workhorse rocket, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off from the First...

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ISRO's SpaDex satellites successfully deploy solar panels, docking around 7 Jan

New Delhi: ISRO’s PSLV C60 mission has successfully deployed the pair of SpaDex satellites, each weighing 220 kgs into a precise circular orbit at...

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Blood glucose levels can be tracked with wearable sweat sensor

New Delhi: Researchers from Binghamton University in US have developed a paper-based biosensor that uses power-generating bacteria to measure...

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Researchers unravel how gold reaches surface of Earth

New Delhi: An international team of researchers have identified a complex of gold and sulphur that helps scientists get a clearer understanding of...

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Social isolation causes college students to lose sleep

New Delhi: Researchers from the Oregon State University in the US have identified loneliness as a bigger factor for causing insomnia among college...

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New study shows Deccan volcanoes did not drive dinosaur extinction

New Delhi: Ever since dinosaurs were first discovered in the early nineteenth century, scientists have always wondered what exactly caused these...

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Christmas 2024 on International Space Station

Christmas 2024 on International Space Station Christmas 2024: The residents on board the ISS are gearing up for the holiday season in space. Santa...

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Even a single arm of SSI Mantra surgical robot can tremendously benefit remote areas

New Delhi: World-famous heart surgeon Sudhir Srivastava left a thriving practice in the United States to return to India with the goal of...

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