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Perseverance rover finds light-colored rocks in Jezero crater, offering new clues about Mars' wet past

The rocks were determined to be kaolinite, which is found in tropical regions on Earth.
Updated: Dec 3, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observes mysterious ultraviolet radiation in stellar nursery

Five young stars in the Ophiuchus region were studied to detect ultraviolet radiation and understand its role in the formation of stars.
Updated: Dec 1, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX captured stunning images of Earth and Moon before heading to asteroid Apophis

On September 23, 2025, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX successfully used an Earth flyby to slingshot toward its target: potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis.
Published: Dec 1, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

10 strangest things Hubble Space Telescope has discovered in space

The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.
Published: Nov 28, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

Is communication from the Moon to Earth possible even when the Moon is on the far side?

The Moon's far side never faces Earth, so currently, radio signals cannot reach us directly. But it may change in the future.
Published: Nov 28, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA's Perseverance rover detects giant sunspot 15 times wider than Earth rotating toward our planet

Perseverance's main job is Martian weather forecasting, but its routine solar scans on November 25 unexpectedly detected the large sunspot.
Updated: Nov 27, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survives another round of tough space tests

The telescope's outer barrel and solar panels were subjected to a powerful acoustic blast reaching 138 decibels, louder than standing next to a jet engine during takeoff.
Published: Nov 26, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA’s Europa Clipper experiments with star-tracking camera and catches a bonus view—Uranus

The spacecraft is on its way to study Jupiter's moon Europa.
Published: Nov 24, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers bizarre alien rock on Mars

The Perseverance Mars rover discovered the unusual rock at its first landing site.
Published: Nov 21, 2025  |  By Mahalekshmi P

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures four coiled dust shells ‘spiraling’ Apep for the first time

Webb showed a full and crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust.
Published: Nov 21, 2025  |  By Devanshee Singh

ESA's Solar Orbiter provides stunning new footage of solar prominence

The footage was gathered by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) from a distance of around 39 million miles.
Updated: Nov 20, 2025  |  By Devanshee Singh

ESA’s Euclid telescope provides remarkable insights into formation of galaxies and supermassive black holes

With its sharp observation and wide-field view, Euclid has already found more than 1.2 million large galaxies and obtained details of their morphology.
Published: Nov 15, 2025  |  By Devanshee Singh

Stunning new study claims Mars may have supported life longer than initially suspected

Scientists came to the conclusion by comparing data from NASA's Curiosity rover with that from rock formations in the UAE desert.
Published: Nov 14, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

ESA’s ExoMars captures massive dust avalanches on Mars triggered by a meteoroid impact

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured evidence of dust avalanches on the slopes of Mars' Apollinaris Mons.
Updated: Nov 10, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA's James Webb delivers first-ever detection of life's 'building blocks' in ice outside our galaxy

Researchers have discovered COMs frozen in ice near a protostar in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Published: Nov 7, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

China's Mars mission Tianwen-1 captures rare images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

The Tianwen-1 orbiter successfully imaged the object from a remarkable distance of approximately 30 million kilometers as it traversed the solar system.
Published: Nov 7, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

ESA's Solar Orbiter captures first direct view of Sun's polar magnetic field in motion

Analyzing late March data from Solar Orbiter, researchers produced the first detailed map of the magnetic network and supergranulation at the Sun's south pole.
Published: Nov 6, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Hubble Space Telescope unveils striking portrait of a spiral galaxy harboring an active nucleus

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active cores impact their host galaxies.
Published: Nov 4, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Europa Clipper predicted to intercept charged material stream from comet 3I/ATLAS

The particle shower is forecasted to occur between October 30 and November 6, based on predictions from the new computer model, 'Tailcatcher.'
Updated: Dec 4, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

Astrophysicist explains how Mars Orbiters captured closest view of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb confirmed the CaSSIS image of 3I/ATLAS, a 'fuzzy ball of light,' is consistent with prior Hubble Space Telescope observations.
Updated: Dec 4, 2025  |  By Raj Naik