NASA has captured detailed observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, a visitor from beyond our Solar System that has sparked both excitement and speculation. Discovered on 1 July 2025 by the ATLAS survey in Chile, the comet is the third confirmed interstellar object, following 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019). Moving on a hyperbolic trajectory, 3I/ATLAS entered…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared breathtaking images of volcanoes as seen from space, highlighting Earth’s fiery landscapes from Italy’s Mount Vesuvius to Indonesia’s Krakatoa. These photographs, taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), serve as a powerful reminder of how active and dynamic our planet remains. The images were released on…
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a major milestone by capturing its first images of the Sun’s faint outer atmosphere, known as the solar corona. This was made possible by two spacecraft flying in precise formation to create the world’s first artificial solar eclipse in space. One satellite blocked the Sun’s bright disk,…
Spacecraft and specialized telescopes have been studying the sun closely for decades, probing the secrets of its spots, flares and corona. But neither human nor robotic eyes had properly seen the north or south poles of the sun. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency released the first clear images of the sun’s south pole, which…
NASA cuts: ESA in talks about the ‘full repercussions’ (Photo: AP) The US administration under Republican President Donald Trump has proposed billions in cuts to NASA’s budget, putting at risk major partnerships, and shifting the space agency’s priorities from the moon to Mars.Reacting to these cuts, European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher emphasized…
James Webb Telescope uncovers clues of hidden supermassive black hole in M83 galaxy (Picture credit: ESA) Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that a long-sought supermassive black hole may lie at the centre of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83), also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy….
The European Space Agency (ESA) is offering $5,000 to volunteers who are willing to spend 10 days lying in bed. While it may sound like a dream job for some, there’s more to it than just relaxing. The ESA is conducting a unique study to simulate the effects of weightlessness that astronauts experience in space….
The year 2024 proved to be an outstanding time in the realm of space exploration, where the milestones achieved by several agencies held the world in awe. Milestone scientific discoveries and technological achievements marked humanity’s unwavering quest to know more about the universe.From Moon to Mars, and from solar breakthroughs to democratising space access, a…
The partnership was formalised through signatures from Isri Chairman S Somanath and ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher. (Image credit: Isro) BENGALURU: Strengthening its international space cooperation further, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) signed an agreement focusing on astronaut training, mission implementation, and research experiments with the European Space Agency (ESA).According to Isro, the collaboration…
भारतीय अंतरिक्ष अनुसंधान संगठन (ISRO) ने आंध्र प्रदेश के श्रीहरिकोटा से PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 मिशन को सफलतापूर्वक लॉन्च किया. यह मिशन एक वाणिज्यिक मिशन था, जिसमें न्यूस्पेस इंडिया लिमिटेड (NSIL) की ओर से प्रक्षेपित किया गया. PSLV-C59 रॉकेट ESA (यूरोपीय अंतरिक्ष एजेंसी) के PROBA-3 उपग्रह को अपनी निर्धारित कक्षा में स्थापित करने के लिए भेज रहा था….