NASA Engineers Rescue JunoCam with Deep-Space Heating Hack
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter, had a huge problem when its JunoCam imager started to fail after sitting through the planet’s harsh radiation belts for so many orbits.…
Shubhanshu Shukla Bids Farewell from ISS, Honours India’s Space Legacy
Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla’s farewell address from the ISS capped India’s historic Axiom-4 mission. In his brief speech before returning to Earth, Shukla struck a note of national pride and…
A Planet with a Death Wish: How HIP 67522 b Is Forcing Its Star to Explode
Scientists have caught a planet with a death wish, which is an alien world, orbiting very near to its star, and so speedy that it is causing the star to…
Dead NASA Satellite Relay 2 May Have Caused Mysterious 2024 Radio Burst
In June 2024, scientists detected a mysterious, powerful burst of radio waves originating from within our galaxy. At first, they thought it was coming from a pulsar or another undiscovered…
James Webb Telescope Captures First Direct Image of Saturn-Mass Exoplanet
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured its first direct image of a newly discovered exoplanet. Astronomers announced that Webb imaged a Saturn-mass planet orbiting the nearby young star…
Axiom Mission 4 Successfully Docks on International Space Station; Shubhanshu Shukla Becomes First Indian to Reach Milestone
Axiom 4 Mission carrying the crew members has now reached the International Space Station (ISS) after getting launched from Kennedy Space Centre at 12:01 PM IST on June 25, 2025.…
NASA Chandra Spots Distant X-Ray Jet; Telescope Faces Major Budget Cuts
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected an enormous X-ray jet from quasar J1610+1811, observed at a distance of about 11.6 billion light-years (roughly 3 billion years after the Big Bang).…
Hubble Finds Cosmic Dust Coating Uranus’ Moons, Not Radiation Scars
The latest Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal a twist in the story of Uranus’s moons. Rather than the expected radiation “sunburn,” the moons Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon seem to…
NASA Slightly Raises Odds of Asteroid Hitting the Moon in 2032 After Updated JWST Data
The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 pummelling into the moon in December 2032 has been increased by new data gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) by NASA. Feared to…
NASA Satellite Detects Tree Leaf Changes as Early Volcano Eruption Warning Signal
NASA scientists might soon be able to forecast volcanic eruptions by monitoring how trees respond from space. Now, in a new collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, they have discovered that tree…