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15 May 2024, 17:40

ISRO’s Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 get front-row seats to the strongest solar storm in over 20 years

The Sun has been throwing some major temper tantrums lately, its active sunspot AR13664 directing multiple intense X-class flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) towards our planet since the beginning of May. A recent geomagnetic storm, deemed to be the strongest since 2003, struck Earth earlier this month, causing disruptions to communication and GPS systems.

15 May 2024, 12:48

Butterfly basin: Astronomers find the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients around a young star!

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offering the basic building blocks needed for the formation of planets. Now, astronomers have stumbled upon what they assert is the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients identified to date, swirling around a young star.

13 May 2024, 14:24

New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io

Researchers have discovered a new "fiery, glowing red" exoplanet displaying intense volcanic activity similar to Jupiter's m...

19 Dec 2019, 23:02

Apollo 17 astronauts returned to earth 47 years ago today. These photos tell the story of the last manned lunar landing.

AP/NASA PHOTO 47 years ago in 1972, Apollo 17 became NASA's last manned moon landing. A crew of three astrona...

19 Dec 2019, 22:43

We're likely to find alien life in the next decade, scientists say. Here's where NASA plans to look - in our solar system and beyond.

NASA/JPL-Caltech This artist's rendering illustrates a conceptual design for a potential future mission to la...

19 Dec 2019, 19:12

100 red objects in deep space vanished over the last 70 years. A group of scientists say giant alien-built structures could be to blame.

NASA/ESA/IPAC/Caltech/STScI/Arizona State University Nine years' worth of observations by the Hubble Space Te...

19 Dec 2019, 04:32

Amazon is building a monster headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to pump out thousands of satellites and compete with SpaceX

Dave Mosher/Business Insider Jeff Bezos gestures during a presentation on May 9, 2019. Amazon has been lookin...

18 Dec 2019, 09:04

A star on the edge of the Solar System just got a Bengali name

Star HD 86081 will now be known as Bibha and it’s accompanying exoplanet will be called Santamasa. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announc...

18 Dec 2019, 01:36

SpaceX's biggest rivals are about to test-launch a new astronaut space taxi for the first time

Kim Shiflett/NASA Astronauts stand before the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft during its rollout on Nov. 21, 2019. On Fr...

17 Dec 2019, 09:28

ISRO outlook 2020: Indian private sector eyes $30 billion space launch pie

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) budget is expected to increase by 35% in the coming year. The influx of funds ...

17 Dec 2019, 05:56

A new space telescope is about to take an unprecedented look at alien planets circling distant stars. Watch it launch live.

ESA / ATG medialab An artist's impression of CHEOPS, the ESA's Characterizing Exoplanet Satellite, in orbit a...

15 Dec 2019, 18:36

This 20-year-old Bitcoin millionaire beamed cryptocurrency from space to a school in Ghana

Erik Finman Erik Finman is 20-years-old and worth $3.2 million in bitcoin - he just led a successful "crypto space drop." Er...

14 Dec 2019, 02:11

The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to spot them.

Daniel Aguilar/Reuters The Geminids meteor shower lights up the sky over the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, ne...

13 Dec 2019, 05:41

The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend. NASA's solar probe just spotted the giant trail of asteroid dust for the first time ever.

NASA An artist's illustration of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. The Geminids meteor shower, a tr...

13 Dec 2019, 00:14

NASA has pinpointed an area where astronauts could land on Mars. Ice is so accessible there that they could dig it up with a shovel.

NASA via AP A NASA image of Mars. NASA scientists discovered a vast region of Mars where water ice sits just ...

12 Dec 2019, 10:02

India's NAVIC satellites approved to join US 'allied' system

The US Congress has consented to designate India's NAVIC as its “allied” navigational satellite system along with the Galileo of the European Union and QZSS of Japan. The Congress designates Russia's GLONASS and Chinese Beidou as a “non-allied system”, and do not co-operate or exchange data with these two systems.

ISRO's newly formed commercial arm completes second successful launch in less than a month

11 Dec 2019, 16:40

A record-breaking NASA probe circling the sun has found never-before-seen spikes of solar wind and a flipping magnetic field

NASA An artist's illustration of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the sun. NASA has released its first resu...

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ISRO’s Aditya L1 and Chandrayaan-2 get front-row seats to the strongest solar storm in over 20 years

Butterfly basin: Astronomers find the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients around a young star!

New "fiery" exoplanet discovered, found to display volcanic activity like Jupiter's Io

Apollo 17 astronauts returned to earth 47 years ago today. These photos tell the story of the last manned lunar landing.

We're likely to find alien life in the next decade, scientists say. Here's where NASA plans to look - in our solar system and beyond.

100 red objects in deep space vanished over the last 70 years. A group of scientists say giant alien-built structures could be to blame.

Amazon is building a monster headquarters in Redmond, Washington, to pump out thousands of satellites and compete with SpaceX

A star on the edge of the Solar System just got a Bengali name

SpaceX's biggest rivals are about to test-launch a new astronaut space taxi for the first time

ISRO outlook 2020: Indian private sector eyes $30 billion space launch pie

A new space telescope is about to take an unprecedented look at alien planets circling distant stars. Watch it launch live.

This 20-year-old Bitcoin millionaire beamed cryptocurrency from space to a school in Ghana

The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend, with hundreds of multicolored shooting stars. Here's how to spot them.

The Geminids meteor shower peaks this weekend. NASA's solar probe just spotted the giant trail of asteroid dust for the first time ever.

NASA has pinpointed an area where astronauts could land on Mars. Ice is so accessible there that they could dig it up with a shovel.

India's NAVIC satellites approved to join US 'allied' system

ISRO's newly formed commercial arm completes second successful launch in less than a month

Europe wants to use a suicidal robot to clean up space — one satellite at a time

ISRO's all-weather ‘spy satellite’ will help India watch its borders closely

India government ready to spend ₹33 crore to fend off space debris

Asteroids the size of planes will fly past Earth today, within hours of each other

NASA’s Sun probe sheds new light on our star — here are 5 new secrets it uncovered

An experiment that solved a 100-year-old mystery posed by Einstein just got up to 50% more powerful by squeezing light

Why astrophysicists think there's a black hole in our solar system

A record-breaking NASA probe circling the sun has found never-before-seen spikes of solar wind and a flipping magnetic field