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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Astronomers have recently tested an innovative method to search for alien life. They focused on a nearby star system called TRAPPIST-1. This system, located just 41 light years away. It features seven rocky, Earth-sized planets, three of which lie within the habitable […]