After 25 years of preparations, scheduled delays, and several budget overruns, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally ready for launch in the coming month. When launched, this 10 billion dollars machine, with its giant hexagonal primary mirror, will be …
Satellites, residues of collisions, pieces of space rockets – almost 170 million space objects that weigh more than 180 tonnes, are orbiting above our heads. Some of them fell, but most are just creating a space landfill. Space debris is …
Missions on Mars are something you got kind of used to by now. From time to time, some rocket headed to Mars is launched, and this gets in the news for a brief time. At least that’s how most of …
The Next Rover To Mars Is Ready And Here’s What’s So Special About It. Read More »
Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. It is an incredibly fascinating object, and ever since the dawn of humanity, people have wondered about its origins and nature. Venus is one of the most studied …
Ever Wondered How We Explored The Hottest Planet of the Solar System? Read More »
When we say the words “radio telescope,” the well-known Arecibo observatory immediately resonates with us, yet it is far from being the only one in the world of astronomy. Indeed, through slightly different technologies and specifications, many others around the …
How The ‘Heaven’s Eye’ Is Searching For Signs of Life Beyond Our Planet. Read More »
To synthesize anything, from housing bricks to comfortable clothes to rockets and satellites, you need materials. Right? Without proper materials at our service, it’s indeed difficult to imagine our life. But, how do we determine which material to use for …
How Does A Scanning Electron Microscope Develop Such Breathtaking Images? Read More »
When I was a kid, the promise that ‘common’ people would someday get to space was more of a science fiction idea. We knew that it was on the table, but we never really expected it would turn into reality. …
‘Welcome To The Second Space Age’ Where Science Fiction Is Turning Into reality. Read More »
On October 5, 138 years ago, in 1882, was born Robert H. Goddard, an American physicist from Massachusetts who became known for his works in this field of rocketry and was eventually acknowledged as the father of modern rocketry. Goddard …
Remembering The Dreamer Whose Designs And Experiments Took Humanity To Space. Read More »
In an article published in Scientific American, Anil Ananthaswamy reported on the findings of David Kipping, an American astronomer from Columbia University. His study suggests that it is not a wild claim to state that the reality we live in …
New Research Has Shown There’s A 50-50 Chance That We Live In A Simulation. Read More »
A few months ago, we published an article titled, “What Voyager 1, Earth’s farthest spacecraft, saw in its journey of 43 years in space.” And the most common question that people asked was, “How do we get signals from a …
Ever Wondered How We Are Still In Contact With Old Spacecraft Billions of Miles Away? Read More »
Typically, when guiding a spacecraft on its trajectory and modifying its path, acceleration, and speed, a propellant is used. However, it is costly, and therefore, to reduce the expenses of extensive space programs, aerospace engineers have developed an alternative method …
Gravity Assist: A Clever Technique To Speed Up A Spacecraft Using A Planet. Read More »
It’s been exactly 44 years since Voyager 2 was launched into space. Its achievements are more than grand, and even scientists consider its progress spectacular. However, for it to function, it needs energy, obviously, and that is something the scientists …
Whenever we talk about space missions, it’s almost impossible that Voyager’s name won’t erupt out from somewhere. The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977 to make …
An Endless Journey: What Did Voyager 2 See In Its 44 Years Of Space Travel? Read More »
As November is approaching, the world’s excitement for the James Webb Space Telescope launch is touching new heights. A 10 billion dollars mission, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the largest, most powerful, and most complex space telescope ever built and …
Mind-Blowing Science Behind James Webb Space Telescope’s 18 Golden Honeycomb Mirrors. Read More »
Set to launch in December 2025, the newly named Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next wide-field telescope. Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer and pioneering scientist Nancy Grace Roman who, 30 years ago advocated for the development of …
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Hubble’s True Successor No One’s Talking About! Read More »
