The holy month of Ramadan is about to begin. People of Muslim community all over the world keep fast this month. The special thing is that this year an astronaut will see the beginning of Ramadan in space about 400 kilometers above the earth. United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi flew into space…
Our Sun is behaving strangely. The Sun is in a very active phase due to its 11-year solar cycle. Sunspots are emerging in it, which are releasing solar flares, coronal mass ejections (CME) and solar storms etc. If their direction is towards the Earth, it can have dire consequences. According to reports, a hole in…
Meteorite and asteroid both are such rocky objects, which can cause major devastation when they collide with the Earth. This has also happened in the past. Scientists estimate that dinosaurs were wiped out from the earth millions of years ago due to the destruction caused by an asteroid collision. Similarly, meteorites have also been hitting…
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is rapidly expanding its satellite internet service. It is known as Starlink. On Wednesday, SpaceX launched another large batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit. With the help of Falcon-9 rocket, 56 Starlink satellites were sent into orbit. As per plan, the rocket’s first stage returned to Earth. The stage landed…
We have seen India from space many times. Such pictures or videos often come to light through the American space agency NASA, International Space Station (ISS). The pictures that have surfaced this time have been captured by the Earth Observation Satellite (EOS-06) of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). EOS-06 has taken astonishing pictures of…
An asteroid has attracted the attention of our scientists. The name of the asteroid is-(2023 FS11). This asteroid as big as an airplane is going to pass close to our planet today. When the 82 feet asteroid 2023 FS11 comes close to our Earth, the distance between the two will reduce to 6,610,000 kilometers. This…
With the help of data collected through ‘James Webb Space Telescope’, the largest telescope deployed in space, scientists have discovered the oldest black hole. This black hole is 10 million times bigger than our Sun. Interestingly, the size of the black hole is still increasing. Researchers estimate that this black hole was formed 57 crore…
Space agencies around the world feel that the search for life outside Earth can be completed on an exoplanet. Exoplanets are those planets which do not revolve around our Sun but around some other star. Now researchers from India’s Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) have identified an exoplanet named TOI-6651b using the advanced PARAS-2 spectrograph. It…
Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is preparing for the launch test of its new rocket ‘Starship’. It is said to be one of the heaviest and most expensive rockets in the world. According to reports, the ‘Starship’ vehicle worth about $3 billion i.e. Rs 245 billion can take off from SpaceX’s site in Boca Chica, Texas…
The full moon of April, known as Pink Moon, can be seen today in many countries including India. This is a Super Moon. Supermoon is the situation when the Moon’s orbit is closest to the Earth. If understood from a scientific point of view, the Moon will reach its nearest point perigee in the Earth’s…