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NASA has picked Bengaluru-born astronomer Dr. Ramya Anche as Principal Investigator for PUFFINS, a space telescope mission worth $20 million. The acronym PUFFINS expands to Polarimetry in the Ultraviolet to Find Features...
Bengaluru-based Astrogate Labs unveiled India's first indigenous Optical Inter-Satellite Link (OISL) terminal at the Bengaluru Space Expo. OISL technology uses laser beams to enable direct, high-speed communication betwe...
India added two small spherical tokamaks to its fusion research base in 2026. Pragya, built by Bengaluru-based Pranos Fusion, was completed on 21 August and launched on 3 September 2026; it is an experimental testbed for...
The 36th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony took place on 3 September 2026 in Zurich, Switzerland. Organised every year by the Annals of Improbable Research, the prizes honour research that "makes people laugh, then think." Researc...
Bengaluru-based defence startup Flying Wedge Defence & Aerospace (FWDA) has unveiled FWD Supreme Lite, billed as India's first AI-piloted fighter aircraft programme. Designed and developed in India, it is a 250-kg-class...
IntroductionMarking an extraordinary expansion in bilateral space exploration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officially invited the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to partner in the c...
IntroductionIndia scripted space history on 12 August 2026 with the successful launch of Chandrayaan-4, the country's first-ever lunar sample return mission, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota. The...
Bengaluru-based start-up Astrobase Space Technologies has revealed EVEREST, an 800-kilonewton (kN) rocket engine based on Full-Flow Staged Combustion (FFSC) technology. It is the first engine of this class to be built by...
The Himalayan Chandra Telescope at Hanle, Ladakh, has completed 25 years since its First Light on 26 September 2000.Operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) under the Department of Science and Technology, i...
A Bengaluru start-up has sent the world's first lab-grown diamond jewel into space aboard Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket.The piece, called the Cosmos Bloom Diamond, is a lotus-shaped jewel handcrafted in gold and se...
IntroductionThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) achieved yet another milestone on 6 August 2026 with the successful launch of the Aditya-L2 solar observation mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) i...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive astronomical event, the fierce absolute periodic Comet 10P/Tempel 2 strictly and officially made a visible appearance in the Bengaluru sky, forcefully marking its ret...
