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Airless, shape-shifting wheels could help explore future human habitats on the Moon

A flexible new wheel design could help rovers survive steep drops and harsh terrain inside lunar lava tubes.
Published: Dec 20, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

NASA's Europa Clipper captured a unique ultraviolet view of 3I/ATLAS

The Europa Clipper imaged the comet when Earth-based observation was not possible.
Updated: Dec 19, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

A SpaceX Starlink satellite is tumbling toward Earth after a rare mishap

Operators lost contact with the satellite on December 17 when it was at an altitude of 418 kilometers.
Updated: Dec 19, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

NASA missions observing 3I/ATLAS as it makes its closest approach to Earth

Though officially detected by a NASA-funded ATLAS on July 1, archival records show the comet was actually captured on film as early as mid-June.
Updated: Dec 18, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA's PUNCH mission captures groundbreaking new views of the Sun

Four tiny NASA satellites team up to reveal solar storms, comets, and the Sun’s hidden power.
Published: Dec 18, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

NASA still unable to reestablish contact with MAVEN as spacecraft begins spinning oddly

NASA’s MAVEN went silent on December 6 after it emerged from behind the Red Planet.
Published: Dec 18, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

NASA’s Mars Orbiter hits historic 100,000-image mark thanks to its HiRISE camera

The target was suggested by a high school student via the HiWish program.
Updated: Dec 17, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

Hubble captures stunning image of Calabash Nebula—a space gourd

The Calabash Nebula measures 1.4 light-years across and is named after the unusual-looking Calabash gourd.
Published: Dec 16, 2025  |  By Pratham Gurung

NASA loses contact with MAVEN orbiter as it goes silent behind Mars

Flight controllers and technical specialists are racing to pinpoint the cause of the radio failure and restore contact with the orbiter.
Published: Dec 11, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been built—all set to unlock new secrets of the universe

The final milestone in construction was reached on November 25, as technicians carefully joined the giant telescope's inner and outer components.
Published: Dec 8, 2025  |  By Raj Naik

NASA's James Webb Telescope spots 'super-puff' exoplanet leaking substantial volume of helium into space

The exoplanet is located seven times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own planet.
Published: Dec 4, 2025  |  By Saubhagya Mukherjee

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