Astronomers managed to discover another asteroid just few hours before it struck Earth’s atmosphere. According to reports, a space rock roughly three metres wide entered our planet’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. According to NASA’s Center For Near Earth Object […]
NASA said it is working to resolve the issue with its first solar sail spacecraft. In an update, the agency said that it is analysing the performance of the spacecraft’s composite booms which got bent during deployment and is now affecting the […]
Four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission have safely returned home on Friday. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which departed from the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, made a splashdown at 12:59 pm IST in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. The […]
China has planned to explore Venus in the next few years. According to a new roadmap released by Chinese space organisations, it is planning to collect atmospheric samples of the hellish planet. The mission is part of the development plan up to […]
NASA has shipped a key component of the NISAR satellite to India for launch next year. The agency’s C-130 Hercules aircraft took off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia last week to pick up the radar antenna reflector – a major […]
Astronauts of NASA’s Crew-8 mission are returning from the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow. The agency said that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will undock from the orbital lab at 6:35 am IST on October 22. However, a backup opportunity is available at […]
NASA scientists believe life could exist beneath icy surface on Mars as a result of photosynthesis. In a new paper published in the Nature Communications Earth & Environment, the scientists explained that there are ‘subsurface pools’ beneath frozen water on Mars, where […]