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JAXA Hayabusa 2 missions is just 100 km away from the object Ryugu
The Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) recently took a step forward in its Hayabusa 2 mission which has been orbiting in the space towards its destination i.e. a dark rock called Ryugu. Ater traveling for more than three years, it reached about 100 kilometers away from its target which is a 900 meters wide asteroid which […]
RemoveDEBRIS spacecrafts deploys from ISS towards its space junk clean-up mission
Wednesday, June 20, 2018 – marks the day when RemoveDEBRIS spacecraft was launched from the ISS en route to its mission to understand and study the increasing debris orbiting the Earth. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev was able to capture the Star-Trek’s borg-shaped spacecraft orbiting the Earth after it was deployed from the ISS. RemoveDEBRIS, produced by […]
Dust storms encircles the whole planet; Curiosity is safe but Opportunity rover has been turned off
Dust storm on the red planet is slowly encircling the entire planet ever since it started back on May 30 and could continue for a few months now. As per the latest update, NASA Mars rover Opportunity which reported about the giant dust storm went into radio silence mode in order to preserve its much-needed […]
Mars will be closest to the Earth on July 31; It will be easily visible to naked eyes for whole June & July
Soon, stargazers and space enthusiasts will be able to have a glimpse of the red planet Mars with their naked eyes. In fact, in the coming six weeks in the month of June and July, Mars will shine brighter than ever compared to the last 15 years. The reason being its distance from the Earth […]
ESA beams 6-min music of hope and peace during Stephen Hawking’ memorial service
On March 14, 2018, the world and especially the scientific community lost its star aka Stephen Hawking who died at the age of 76 years after developing health complications at his home in Cambridge. Today, Hawking ashes were interred at the Westminster Abbey in London. But that’s not all. European Space Agency (ESA) paid tribute […]
‘Lost’ tapes from Apollo missions reveal astronauts might have caused hike in temperature on the lunar surface
NASA launched several Apollo missions in the early 1970s in which, twelve astronauts were able to step on the moon; Neil Armstrong made a history after being the first person to step on the moon. However, a recent study suggests that these astronauts might have contributed towards the increasing lunar temperature which shot to more […]
Scientists at India’s ISRO made an EPIC discovery
Scientists at Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have made an epic discovery with a planet the size of six Earths and with a mass of 27 times than the mass of the Earth located at around 600 light-years away from our planet in a recently discovered. Scientists at ISRO have summoned the latest exoplanet as […]
NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover hits another giant dust storm; It may not be able to communicate for a while
Originally designed for a 90-day mission on the red planet, NASA’s Opportunity rover has completed more than 14 years on Mars after it landed on the surface in January 2004 along with its twin rover Spirit that ceased to function back in 2010 after developing complications. Talking about the Opportunity, it is only of the […]
New Horizons probe will soon whiz past Ultima Thule, the farthest object visited by the humanity
NASA’s New Horizons probe which completed the iconic Pluto flyby back in July 2015 is back online now. After visiting Pluto, the nuclear-powered New Horizons probe was shut down to conserve energy for further observations in December 2017. After a brief period of 6 months, the probe woke up on June 5, 2018, for its […]