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Science

National Space Day 2025: Flashback to Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander touchdown, Pragyan Rover rollout | Video

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 2025
News

Indian astronauts only ones trained in both US and Russia: Shubhanshu Shukla

Group 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 2025
Opinion

Moon race II: Nasa mustn’t take the risk of a lunar meltdown lightly

The 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 2025
Science

Vaishnaw cites Chandrayaan-3 to boast India's potential to develop low-cost AI models

Vaishnaw cites Chandrayaan-3 to boast India's potential to develop low-cost AI models

2 min read5 Feb 2025
Science

Year-ender: Top 8 science news from 2024 — from the eclipse, to NASA mission and Sunita Williams stuck in space

Year-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 2024
Technology

India puts space station on priority eyeing geopolitical gains

2028 launch will likely give India global leverage as International Space Station may be decommissioned by the end of 2030.

4 min read29 Aug 2024
Industry

India aims to bring moon soil by 2027, buoyed by success of Chandrayaan-3

If 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 2024
Science

Moon's surface once had magma ocean? Data from Chandrayaan-3 shows THESE details to support theory…

Data 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 2024
Videos

US Pulls Off Moon Landing After 50 Years | Odysseus Lands Down Near Lunar South Pole | Watch

The 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 2024
Videos

ISRO Kicks-Off New Year With A Bang | All You Need To Know About XPOSAT | Upcoming Missions | Watch

ISRO 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.

3 Jan 2024