Five billion miles and 200,000 orbits around Earth: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope completes milestone
According to NASA, Hubble has made over 1.7 million observations since its launch in 1990.
Published: 5 days ago | By Harsh Vardhan
'Humanity’s next window into the deep universe': Meet PRIMA, NASA's new far-infrared telescope
The mission is expected to launch on its five-year mission in 2033.
Published: 5 days ago | By Pranjal Nath
ESA’s Jupiter-bound JUICE spacecraft to use the Moon for a 'test run' before approaching gas giant
JUICE will fine-tune its path, test instruments and study Earth and the Moon before approaching Jupiter.
Published: 6 days ago | By Purva Muley
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope can now easily run for 22 years instead of 10. Here's how
The telescope was designed for a 10-year mission, including a five-year extension on top of a five-year primary mission.
Published: Sep 15, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
MOONS achieves first light: ESO's new instrument opens a new window into the Milky Way
MOONS will help astronomers study stars and galaxies going back more than 13 billion years.
Published: Sep 8, 2026 | By Purva Muley
NASA gives Blue Origin four years to complete high-speed communications network around Mars
Blue Origin is building an orbiter that will establish continuous communication between Earth and Mars.
Published: Sep 3, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
Why NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could change how we see the universe?
While Roman will complement Hubble and Webb, it represents a huge upgrade over its predecessors.
Published: Aug 27, 2026 | By Lakshmi Kola
What is the Extremely Large Telescope and what makes it special? All about the most powerful telescope ever made
The massive Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will outclass Hubble and the JWST and usher in a new era in observational astronomy.
Published: Aug 10, 2026 | By Shiladitya Ray
Voyager 2 gets a lifeline after 'Big Bang fix': How NASA is extending the probe's life
Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles away from Earth and one-way communication takes about 20 hours.
Published: Aug 7, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
Can we use the Moon to deploy gravitational wave detectors? Chinese astronomers have proposed a plan
Detectors on Earth cannot detect all frequency ranges. The Moon can help fill this gap.
Published: Jul 30, 2026 | By Biplab Das
NASA’s Mars-bound ESCAPADE mission snaps family portrait of Earth and the Moon
The photo, taken 363,250 miles from Earth, provided an important check for ESCAPADE's cameras.
Published: Jul 29, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
New technique to allow LIGO to look farther into the universe for neutron star mergers
The new technique involving thermal imaging will improve LIGO's sensitivity by helping it overcome a major challenge.
Published: Jul 23, 2026 | By Biplab Das
ESA’s Plato, set to hunt Earth-like exoplanets, is now ready for launch after acing final tests
Short for PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations, Plato will launch in March 2027 aboard an Ariane 6 rocket.
Published: Jul 23, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
NASA-ISRO’s NISAR satellites captures stunning ‘hummingbird’ feature in Antarctica
NISAR saw beneath the surface and revealed the movement of a glacier beneath a mountain.
Published: Jul 23, 2026 | By Harsh Vardhan
Crater Island in Utah becomes testing ground for DAVINCI, NASA's future mission to Venus
The mission is expected to capture Venus in unprecedented detail.
Published: Jul 15, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may finally reveal how the universe's first black holes formed
Could this telescope help solve the mystery of black holes' origins? Here's what scientists say.
Published: Jul 15, 2026 | By Ankita Garkoti
Meet NASA's NEO Surveyor: A 'one-of-a-kind mission' designed to find the most dangerous asteroids
“By identifying objects that ground telescopes can miss, this mission will provide the critical data we need to safeguard our planet for years to come.”
Published: Jul 13, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Nuclear weapons in space? MIT scientist proposes way to detect hidden nukes on satellites
The proposal involves an inspector satellite with a neutron detector that could identify nukes.
Updated: Jul 10, 2026 | By Biplab Das
SpaceX's Falcon 9 launches world's first commercially built nuclear-powered satellite
The satellite, called BOHR, was built by the Florida-based company City Labs.
Published: Jul 8, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
NASA-backed coating for space shield roughly 250x thinner than a human hair could help detect alien life
The coating could be applied on future spacecraft designed to block light from distant stars hosting exoplanets.
Published: Jul 7, 2026 | By Biplab Das