The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the first brown dwarf star candidates outside the Milky Way. The European Space Agency (ESA) said that these candidates reside in the star cluster NGC 602 that lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic […]
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’s private space company Deep Blue Aerospace is planning to launch paying customers to space in 2027. According to the company, each ticket will cost about $2,10,000 or approximately Rs 1.8 crore and it will sell the first two tickets today. Explaining […]
SpaceX has moved on to prepare for the sixth test flight of Starship just a few days after the immensely successful flight 5. On October 13, it caught the 400-feet-tall rocket’s Super Heavy Booster using the ‘Mechazilla’ tower, creating history in the […]
Axiom Space has shared new pictures from NASA’s Johnson Space Center training facility in Houston, Texas, where private astronauts are preparing for their mission to the International Space Station (ISS) next year. Among the trainees are India’s Shubhanshu Shukla, Wing Commander in […]
Life might have originated on Earth after a massive meteorite strike billions of years ago, says a new study. This space rock, known as S2, was enormous and scientists now believe that instead of only causing destruction, it may have acted as […]
Blue Origin, on Wednesday, finally launched its brand new human-rated spacecraft and it ended in success. The New Shepard (NS) rocket lifted off at 8:57 pm IST for the NS-27 mission from the company’s launch site in Texas with the debutant crew […]
Say goodbye to the guilt generated by those plastic air pillows stuffed into your Amazon purchase — the company announced earlier this month it’s ceasing use of the eco-unfriendly packaging material. “As of October 2024, we’ve removed all plastic air pillows from […]