It's time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13's distance record. What to know about the moon flybyArtemis II astronauts are setting a new distance record from Earth, surpassing Apollo 13's maximum range during their lunar flyby. The miss...
06 Apr, 2026, 07.12 AM IST
ISRO seeks minds to decode the Sun through Aditya L1 mission dataExciting update from ISRO! Indian scientists are encouraged to submit proposals for access to valuable data from the Aditya-L1 solar missio...
02 Apr, 2026, 02.43 PM IST
NASA's Parker solar probe makes a historic Sun encounter as fastest man-made object ever: Explained in 10 pointsNASA's Parker Solar Probe: NASA tasted the Sun on Christmas Eve. The agency’s Parker Solar Probe made its closest-ever approach to the sun ...
27 Dec, 2024, 02.16 PM IST
Why NASA planes will chase the April 8 solar eclipse, from an altitude of 50,000 feetOn April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will occur over parts of North America, providing a unique research opportunity to study the Sun an...
03 Apr, 2024, 02.12 PM IST
Aditya-L1 spacecraft of ISRO to be placed in its final destination orbit todayIndia's ISRO is set to perform the final manoeuvre at 4 pm on Saturday to position the Aditya-L1 spacecraft, the country's first space-base...
06 Jan, 2024, 11.11 AM IST
ISRO completes launch rehearsal of Aditya-L1 solar missionISRO has completed the launch rehearsal and internal checks for its Aditya-L1 mission to study the Sun. The spacecraft, scheduled to be lau...
30 Aug, 2023, 06.48 PM IST
ISRO sets date for maiden sun voyage Aditya-L1 for Sept 2The spacecraft that will be designed for the solar mission will help to receive remote observations of the solar corona and in situ observa...
28 Aug, 2023, 04.48 PM IST
ISRO sets Sept 2 as tentative date for launch of Aditya-L1 solar missionISRO is preparing to launch the Aditya-L1 spacecraft on September 2. The Aditya-L1 mission, aimed at studying the Sun from an orbit around ...
28 Aug, 2023, 10.41 AM IST
ISRO gearing up for mission to study Sun, satellite arrives at Sriharikota for launchAditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is getting ready for its launch soon, ISRO said on Monday. The satell...
14 Aug, 2023, 02.11 PM IST
Largest payload on board mission to study Sun will be handed over to ISRO tomorrowThe VELC payload would be formally handed over to ISRO Chairman S Somanath at IIA's CREST campus on Thursday. "It's a milestone in the deve...
25 Jan, 2023, 05.20 PM IST
Chandrayaan instrument gives outstanding science results on solar coronaAn instrument on board India's Chandrayaan-2 mission has provided outstanding science results on the solar corona and heliophysics, the Ind...
23 Jun, 2021, 01.23 PM IST
Novel technique for tracking eruptions from sun to be used in India's first solar missionA software named Computer Aided CME Tracking Software based on a computer vision algorithm was so far used to detect and characterise such ...
01 Apr, 2021, 06.08 PM IST
After Chandrayaan-2, ISRO plans mission for Sun next yearAditya-L1 is meant to observe the corona, which are the outer layers of the Sun, extending to thousands of kilometres.
22 Jul, 2019, 05.33 PM IST
World's first mission to touch the Sun lifts off: NASAThe launch of the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the spacecraft was scrubbed yesterday due to a violation of a launc...
12 Aug, 2018, 01.41 PM IST
Scientists to chase solar eclipse using NASA jetsAmir Caspi of the Southwest Research Institute in the US and his team will use two of NASA's WB-57F research jets to follow the darkness ac...
26 Jul, 2017, 01.30 PM IST
- Scientists to chase solar eclipse using NASA's research jets
New York, July 26 (IANS) For the upcoming total solar eclipse, a team of NASA-funded scientists are planning to observe the solar corona us...
26 Jul, 2017, 11.52 AM IST
Why Sun's corona is hotter than its surface decodedScientists have finally decoded why the Sun's million-degree corona or outermost atmosphere is so much hotter than its surface, which has b...
22 Nov, 2014, 08.35 AM IST