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Moon missions and solar spectacles headline 2026 space calendar

December 30, 2025 9:19 am

From lunar flybys and towering robotic landers to rare eclipses and dazzling supermoons, 2026 is shaping up as a banner year for celestial events - with plenty to see both above Earth and far beyond it.

"This will be the farthest and the most isolated that humans have ever been,"said James Pawelczyk a researcher and associate professor at Penn State.(Image: NASA)

New Mars mission blueprint lays out science goals for humanity’s first steps on Red Planet

December 12, 2025 9:21 am

The blueprint outlines the equipment, landing-site criteria and environmental constraints that will determine what is feasible when humans reach the surface of Mars.

The Madras High Court directed passport authorities to proceed without mother's signature if she fails to sign the daughter's visa and passport application for NASA trip

Madras High Court orders woman locked in matrimonial feud with husband to cooperate for daughter's trip to NASA

December 11, 2025 8:46 pm

Madras High Court NASA Trip Passport: The minor’s father moved the high court, stating his daughter’s interest in space science and willingness for a school tour programme to NASA after his estranged wife refused to sign the child’s passport.

25 Students from Pune Zilla Parishad Schools, mostly coming from underprivileged backgrounds in rural Pune, were selected for the NASA Tour in US. The students departed from Mumbai to US on November 15, and returned from their visit on November 27. (Express Photo)

Cleanliness, traffic rules, and science: what students of Pune Zilla Parishad schools learnt during their Nasa tour

December 11, 2025 6:11 pm

Students from Pune Zilla Parishad schools say they gained an entirely different perspective on public life in the US, an eye-opening experience.

Since its launch in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unearthed many such exceptions, the most notable of which led scientists to the discovery that the universe formed much quicker than they originally thought.

From Pune, the discovery of Alaknanda, Milky Way’s long-lost sibling

December 24, 2025 11:56 am

An old galaxy, it challenges what scientists know about the universe. That is how all great stories in science begin

Pune researchers find spiral galaxy like Milky Way from early universe

December 03, 2025 4:57 am

The striking thing about Alaknanda is its textbook spiral structure.

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, the Soyuz-2.1 rocket booster with Soyuz MS-28 space ship carrying NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev, a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (Roscosmos space corporation, via AP)

US-Russian crew of 3 blasts off to International Space Station in Russian Soyuz rocket

November 27, 2025 3:29 pm

All three are scheduled to spend about eight months at the orbiting outpost.

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter captured this view of Mars’ south polar ice cap Feb. 25, 2015. Three years later, the spacecraft detected a signal from the area to the right of the ice cap that scientists interpreted as an underground lake. (Image: ESA)

Water on Mars? Scientists have finally found the answer to the biggest mystery

November 27, 2025 2:56 pm

The latest findings clarify the mystery; they highlight the utility of the radar technique for identifying subsurface resources on Mars, which is valuable for future exploration efforts

While Swift would likely disintegrate during re-entry and pose no threat to people or property on Earth, NASA and Katalyst aim to extend its operational life. (Image: NASA science)

NASA hires startup for rescue mission to save falling Swift Observatory by 2026

November 22, 2025 9:07 am

If the mission is successful, it will show NASA a vital new capacity in addition to prolonging the life of an extremely valuable research satellite.

Scientists questioned why the rock seemed different from neighbouring terrain and why its form contrasted so sharply with the ordinary native Martian crust. (Image: NASA)

‘A stranger in our midst’: NASA’ Perseverance rover finds a desk-sized ‘exotic’ rock on Mars

November 20, 2025 8:58 am

Nasa said Perseverance captured the photograph of the "possible meteorite" with the Left Mastcam Z camera on September 19.

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Ex-astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash

June 08, 2024 7:16 pm

“Bill Anders forever changed our perspective of our planet and ourselves with his famous Earthrise photo on Apollo 8," Arizona Sen.

Earth, space, and beyond: 12 new breathtaking images shared by NASA

May 15, 2024 8:10 pm

NASA posts mesmerising pictures on their website.

Photos: NASA and SpaceX's historic Crew-5 launch to International Space Station

October 06, 2022 2:09 pm

The team was led by Nicole Aunapu Mann, 45, who became the first Native American woman sent to orbit by NASA and the first woman to take the commander's seat of a SpaceX Crew Dragon.

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NASA's James Webb telescope offers a look at the universe from 13 billion years ago

July 13, 2022 11:43 am

Thousands of galaxies — including the faintest objects ever observed in the infrared — have appeared in James Webb’s view for the first time, all captured in a relatively small area.

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Here are stunning pictures of Mars, captured by NASA's Perseverance rover

February 21, 2021 7:28 pm

Take a look at the first images of planet Mars captured by NASA's science rover Perseverance minutes before it successfully landed on its dusty red surface.

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Meet the two NASA astronauts from SpaceX Demo-2 mission

May 31, 2020 8:28 am

NASA and SpaceX have rescheduled Demo-2 mission to International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley.

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In Pics: SpaceX-NASA next launch on May 30; photos of the delayed launch

May 28, 2020 6:38 pm

SpaceX NASA Demo-2 test flight launch delayed to March 31. Here are some images from before the delay was announced.

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Here are top 10 stunning images of Indian landscape on Google Earth

February 19, 2020 8:27 am

Google Earth Satellite Images India: Google Earth View is now a collection of over 2,500 images of Earth's most stunning landscapes as seen from space.

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This Valentine's Day, make NASA your messenger and send a free greeting

February 13, 2020 5:30 pm

NASA is letting you send greeting cards to your loved ones on the occasion of the upcoming Valentine's Day. Users can head over to the NASA website to select their favourite scientific yet cheesy valentine greeting card with a tagged message. (Image: NASA)

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These space images taken by NASA's Spitzer Telescope look like modern art

September 02, 2019 6:11 pm

The Spitzer Telescope was launched by NASA 16 years ago in August 2003. To celebrate its sixteenth birthday, the space agency has shared some beautiful space images captured by the infrared telescope.