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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...
On 11 October 2026, NASA's Perseverance rover became the record holder for the longest distance driven on another world, covering 45.22 km (28.10 miles) on Mars and edging past the 45.16 km logged by NASA's Opportunity r...
A team of Indian-led astronomers has identified eRASSU J060839.5–704014 (eRASSU J0608), a pair of white dwarfs that orbit each other in about 6.2 minutes. It is an ultracompact double-white-dwarf binary whose orbit is sh...
A new study suggests Mercury may have contracted 10-30% more than previously thought as its interior cooled over billions of years. Researchers estimate that the planet's radius may have reduced by about 7.2 miles (11.6...
NASA is getting ready to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation observatory to study dark energy, dark matter, gravity and planets outside the Solar System. It is named after Nancy Grace Roman, N...
Scientists have classified the exoplanet GJ 523b as a “mega-Earth”, a rocky planet with a radius of at least 2.1 Earth radii and density of at least 5.5 g/cm³. GJ 523b is about 2.55 times Earth’s radius, 23.5 Earth masse...
IntroductionThe Government of Tamil Nadu on 17 August 2026 announced that veteran political stalwart, former Member of Parliament, and former Tamil Nadu Congress Committee (TNCC) president M. Krishnasamy has been chosen...
IntroductionMarking a triumphant personal and scientific milestone in orbital human spaceflight, Indian-origin NASA astronaut Dr. Anil Menon successfully completed his first career spacewalk (Extravehicular Activity - EV...
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...
In a deeply structural and highly massive heritage conservation operation, the Villupuram Range Idol Wing-CID strictly and officially foiled a fierce absolute smuggling bid near Cuddalore. The structural police team forc...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive astrophysical discovery, a new study utilizing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope strictly and officially revealed that star formation in the Andromeda Galaxy (M...
IntroductionIn a deeply structural and highly massive climatological breakthrough, researchers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and ARIES strictly and officially published a global aerosol diversity study,...
