An investigation of information and images sent by ISRO’s Mangalyaan and NASA’s Mars orbiter MAVEN has discovered that “Mars is losing its atmosphere to space
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx collects rocks from asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx successfully landed on the surface of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, collecting a sample of rocks dating back to the birth of our Solar
Hughes India to provide internet services to 5,000 villages
Hughes India, an auxiliary of Hughes Network Systems, will provide internet services to 5,000 far off villages in 15 states and UTs including Ladakh, Arunachal
ISRO to test ground landing of India’s own Space Shuttle RLV
ISRO is planning to build RLV like United States’s Space Shuttle, to place satellites in orbit and return to land for the following missions. This
ISS gets a new $23 million titanium space toilet
On October 5, 2020, the International Space Station received about 4 tons of fresh supplies which included the new titanium space toilet. The supplies were
ISRO to launch its new SSLV rocket by December 2020
ISRO is aspiring to launch its new rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV), before the year’s end. Promoted by ISRO as an advantageous small
3 astrophysicists share Nobel Prize in Physics for black hole discoveries
The 2020 Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for finding “a
ISRO and JAXA to collaborate on Lunar Polar Exploration Mission
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which is taking a shot at its subsequent Moon landing mission, Chandrayaan-3, one year from now, has now formed
Origin Space to launch world’s first asteroid mining robot
A Chinese startup called Origin Space is all set to launch the world’s first asteroid mining robot by November 2020 according to IEEE Spectrum reports.
Planet Pi: An exoplanet that orbits its star every 3.14 days
Astronomers have found a new Earth-like exoplanet that orbits around its star every 3.14 days hence, called the “π” (Pi) planet. The exoplanet is around