The Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument onboard the Pragyaan Rover has made the first-ever in-situ (in-situ: in place) measurements on the elemental composition of the…
Read More What is the moon made of? Sulphur, Aluminum, Calcium, Iron, Chromium, Titanium, Oxygen…
Report by Drishti Baheti After a successful mission to the moon with Chandrayan 3, the Indian Space Research Organization has a mission planned to the…
Read More Aditya-L1: India’s first mission to the Sun
A little after 6 pm India time on August 23rd, 2023, India became the fourth country ever to achieve a soft landing on the lunar…
Read More India is on the moon! – A visual story
Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years – the Luna 25, which was launched on 10th August, 2023, has crash-landed into the moon. It could…
Read More Russia’s Luna 25 crashes into the moon
Report by Paridhi Agarwal Russia launched its lunar mission, Luna 25, successfully on 10th August 2023 at 23:10 (UTC) on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket. Launched by the Russian…
Read More Russia launches Luna 25: First lunar mission in 47 years
Report by Swasti Sharma The first thing that strikes your mind when you hear the word ‘Apsara’, might be the dancing fairies described in Hindu…
Read More APSARA: India’s first nuclear research reactor
Inputs by Shuchi Giridhar At 7:00 p.m. on August 5, Chandrayaan 3 was successfully inserted into the inner orbit of the moon by The Indian…
Read More Chandrayaan III Lunar Orbit Insert and reduction successful
After moving around the Earth, Chandrayaan III has now left for the moon. It is currently on the blue line – on the way from…
Read More Update on Chandrayaan III: August 1
Report by Prashasti Kulkarni Back in 1969, on July 16th, a spacecraft named Apollo 11 was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy to land on the…
Read More Scientists make calculations about the Moon’s inner core and the lunar mantle
Report by Aryaa Sinha NASA’s astronomers have discovered a distant, young NASA’s astronomers have discovered a distant, young galaxy cluster (large groups of galaxies held…
Read More Discovery of Relaxed Galaxy Cluster