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If you have a clear sky during the night of May 5, you may be lucky to see a spectacular lunar eclipse from your region in India. Unlike solar eclipses, lunar eclipses do not need any special protective equipment to witness it. There are just two conditions to enjoy one: the eclipse must be visible in your region and the sky must support clear views.

Photos from SpaceX's Starship facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, show the damaged launchpad, a field of debris, and dented fuel tanks.

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh)India on Saturday successfully placed into orbit TeLEOS-2 and Lumilite-4 satellites both from Singapore.

One representative from a nearby elementary school in Port Isabel, Texas, told Insider that cars were covered in the dust.

Ex-SpaceX employee Laura Crabtree worked under Elon Musk for 11 years, training crew for space. She tested out the trainings for herself, she said.

Among the two solar eclipses marked on the calendar of 2023, the first one will be on April 20, 2023. This time, the world will witness a hybrid solar eclipse. This event can be seen from places including Indonesia, Australia and Timor-Leste. Around the same time, Southeast Asia, Australia, East Indies, New Zealand, and Philippines will see a partial solar eclipse only

The rarity of the first solar eclipse of 2023 is due to the fact that it will be a hybrid eclipse presenting some amazingly spectacular views in the sky for the viewers. The first solar eclipse of 2023 is slated for April 20. This solar eclipse will not be visible from India.

An eclipse (solar or lunar) involves three celestial bodies namely, the sun, moon and the earth. Solar and lunar eclipses are natural events when the sun and moon’s lights are partially or fully hidden from the view for a brief period of time. A solar eclipse results when the moon passes in between the earth and the sun hiding the sun fully or partly for some time. A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth passes in between the moon and the sun casting its shadow on the moon and thus hiding it fully or partly for some time.

SpaceX plans to launch its flagship megarocket, Starship, for the first time in April, taking NASA closer to putting humans on the moon again.

Could we discover conditions necessary for life outside the Earth in the solar system? This is one of the mysteries that the space mission JUICE (for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) will look to elucidate.

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It is not just natural calamities and deadly viruses that may end the human race, giant asteroids hitting the earth at very high speeds may also wreak havoc. Around 65 million years back, a massive asteroid struck the earth, leading to the extinction of dinosaurs. On April 11, a 250-foot wide asteroid called 2023 GG is expected to zoom dangerously close to the home planet at a speed of over 38,000 km/hr. To put things in perspective, the asteroid is just 10 feet shorter than the Qutub Minar in width, traveling at 30 times the speed of sound!

Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit filed for bankruptcy protection after laying off staff, not securing enough funding, and a failed UK rocket launch.

The Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday successfully conducted the Reusable Launch Vehicle Autonomous Landing Mission (RLV LEX). The test was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga, Karnataka, the national agency headquartered here said.

Indian-origin software and robotics engineer, Amit Kshatriya has been appointed as first head of NASA's new Moon to Mars Programme Office at the agency's headquarters in Washington.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched India's largest LVM3 rocket carrying 36 satellites from Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota on Sunday morning. LVM3 was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at around 9 AM. "LVM3 standing 43.5 metres tall and weighing 643 tonnes lifted off from the second launch pad rocket port carrying OneWeb's final instalment of 36 Gen1 satellites", said the officials.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of a solar tornado made of boiling plasma. It's the latest mind-blowing event on the sun.

NASA's Webb telescope peered at clouds on the distant "super Jupiter" planet, and detected tiny sand-like particles that create a hot, rocky mist.

The aurora borealis, or Northern Lights, could be stunning on Friday after a giant coronal hole on the sun blasted strong solar winds toward Earth.

A giant coronal hole, spotted Monday, is releasing rapid solar winds expected to reach Earth on March 24, causing more vibrant aurora borealis.

Star gazers worldwide have marked March 28 on their calendars for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic spectacle. Described as one another spectacular cosmic event to happen in the last week of March 2023, five planets including Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Uranus will be aligned in an arc form along with the moon after sunset on March 28. Different international media reports describe it as an extremely rare astronomical event.

NASA says the ethereal images beamed back from the Curiosity rover on Mars' surface show colorful iridescent clouds that could be made of dry ice.