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Blue Moon May 31, 2026: Will this rare lunar event be visible in India? When, where & how to watch it; What it means for zodiac signs, and how it differs from SupermoonBlue Moon Time May 31, 2026: A rare calendar blue moon will illuminate the night sky on May 31, 2026, marking the first since August 2023. ...
How a 17-year-old NASA intern spotted an odd signal in telescope data and found a planet with two sunsDuring a summer internship at NASA, high school junior Wolf Cukier discovered a planet orbiting two stars. While analyzing data from the TE...
Don’t miss tonight’s sky surprise: The ‘hidden’ truth behind May’s Flower Moon Micromoon—and why it looks smaller than you expect | How to get the best viewA micromoon occurs when the Moon reaches its farthest point from Earth in its orbit, a position known as apogee. Unlike a supermoon, which ...
Moon phase today March 26 USA: How bright is tonight’s waxing gibbous moon and when will it turn fully illuminated?The moon phase today March 26 USA shows a waxing gibbous Moon with about 58% illumination, making it one of the brightest nights this week....
POEM-4 re-enters Earth's atmosphere: ISROISRO announced the successful re-entry of the PSLV Orbital platform Experiment Module (POEM-4) into the Earth's atmosphere, impacting the I...
GSLV mission planned in January would be 100th launch from Sriharikota: ISRO chiefISRO is preparing for its 100th launch from Sriharikota. This will be a Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle mission in January. The recent PSLV-C...
ISRO's keenly-awaited SpaDEx manoeuvre to be set in motion tonight with big PSLV launchISRO will launch two satellites on Monday night to demonstrate in-orbit docking and undocking, making India the fourth country to achieve t...
Our planet is about to reach its greatest distance from the sunLearn about Earth's upcoming aphelion, where it reaches its greatest distance from the sun. Explore the impact of elliptical orbits and gra...
Chandrayaan-3 propulsion module brought back to Earth's orbit: IsroThis mission plan was also worked out to prevent the propulsion module from crashing on the Moon’s surface or entering the Earth’s geosynch...
Chandrayaan-3 gets even closer to the Moon, achieves near-circular orbitThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on August 14 commenced orbit circularisation phase of the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft even close...
Chandrayaan-3 is just 6 days away from moon, critical slingshot manoeuvre tonightIndia's third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, will undergo a slingshot manoeuvre for trans-lunar injection on August 1, with spacecraft thrus...
ISRO launches SSLV-D2 from SriharikotaThe ISRO Friday morning launched the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle-SSLV-D2- from Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota to put three sa...
ISRO says rocket carrying small satellites placed them in wrong orbit, rendering them unusableThe Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, a maiden attempt by ISRO to send lighter satellites into space, had placed them in an elliptical orbit,...
SSLV satellites no longer usable after deviation from orbitThe Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, a maiden attempt by ISRO to send lighter satellites into space, had placed them in an elliptical orbit,...
Satellites no longer usable after deviation: ISRO on its maiden SSLV mission"SSLV-D1 placed the satellites into 356 km x 76 km elliptical orbit instead of 356 km circular orbit. Satellites are no longer usable. Issu...
World's lightest satellite 'Kalamsat-V2' lifts-off successfully from SriharikotaKalamsat is a payload developed by students and Chennai based Space Kidz India for the first time. The Microsat-R satellite is meant for th...
PSLV-C44 to launch Kalamsat, Microsat satellite on January 24PSLV is a four stage launch vehicle with alternating solid and liquid stages.
Most eccentric planet spotted 117 light-years from EarthResearchers have spotted an extrasolar planet, about 117 light-years from Earth, that boasts the most eccentric orbit ever seen.
'Star Wars' style planets with two suns may existSo far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets have been identified circling such binary stars, and many researchers believe rocky planets ca...
China's first lunar probe 'Chang'e-3' enters Moon's orbitChang'e-3 probe entered the lunar orbit after about 112 hours on a Earth-Moon transfer orbit, the BACC said.