National Space Day in India, observed on August 23, honors the Chandrayaan-3 mission's success. Celebrated since 2024, it showcases India's advancements in space exploration and aims to inspire future generations through various educational activities and initiatives.
2 min read23 Aug 2025Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla said Indian astronauts are uniquely positioned for future missions thanks to training in both American and Russian spaceflight technologies.
2 min read21 Aug 2025The US plans a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. This may enable another leap for humankind, no doubt, but the lunar imprint of this project must not end up as a space-age memorial to human folly
3 min read8 Aug 2025Vaishnaw cites Chandrayaan-3 to boast India's potential to develop low-cost AI models
2 min read5 Feb 2025Year-ender 2024: We bring you the top 8 science and space news in the year — from the North American eclipse, to NASA delaying its Artemis missions, contact with Voyager 1, Sunita Williams stuck in space, and more.
5 min read28 Dec 20242028 launch will likely give India global leverage as International Space Station may be decommissioned by the end of 2030.
4 min read29 Aug 2024If successful, India will join an elite club of countries to have brought the lunar soil to the earth, after the US, the erstwhile Soviet Union, and most recently China.
3 min read24 Aug 2024Data from ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the theory of a 'magma ocean' on the Moon, as published in Nature. The Pragyan rover found uniformly composed lunar soil, supporting the hypothesis of the Moon's early evolution.
2 min read22 Aug 2024The United States has pulled off its first lunar landing in more than half a century with a spacecraft built and operated by a Texas-based private company. Odysseus, an uncrewed robot lander built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines with funding from NASA, touched down near the lunar south pole at around 23:23 GMT, the company announced in a webcast on Thursday.
23 Feb 2024ISRO kicked-off the new year with a bang! At 9:10 am just as Indians were waking up, they were treated with the visuals of yet another successful ISRO launch. The successful launch of the XpoSat polarimeter mission has pushed India into a very short elite list of just two countries which have dedicated missions to study black holes and neutron stars.
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