Starting next week, the moon, Earth’s closest celestial body, will be joined by a new neighbour: a second moon. From 29th September until 25th November, astronomers have calculated that 2024 PT5—an object scientists believe to be an asteroid but have dubbed a “mini-moon”—will be orbiting Earth. Eventually, it will break free from the planet’s gravitational…
Earth is set to gain a new mini-moon for a brief period, starting later this month. The small asteroid, identified as 2024 PT5, will be temporarily captured by Earth’s gravity from September 29 until November 25, according to a study published by researchers Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos from…
SpaceX launched its latest mission, Polaris Dawn, on Tuesday, after several weather delays sending a four-person crew of civilians on a groundbreaking journey into Earth‘s Van Allen radiation belts. The mission, which includes the first-ever commercial spacewalk, lifted off at 5.23 am. SpaceX livestreamed the event on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, owned…
NEW DELHI: Nasa on Saturday announced that astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) in February 2025. Initially launched on June 5 aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for an eight-day mission, their stay has extended to nearly 80 days due to various technical issues with the…
Boriska Kipriyanovich, 27 from Volgograd, Russia, has made some extraordinary claims about his past life as a Martian and his mission on Earth, as reported by the Sun.According to Boriska, he was a part of a species from Mars that was devastated by a nuclear conflict thousands of years ago. Fearing a similar fate for…
BENGALURU: Showing that India can not only send objects to the Moon but also bring them back, ISRO has successfully returned the Chandrayaan-3 Propulsion Module (PM), initially intended for lunar operations, to Earth‘s orbit after surpassing its lunar mission objectives.This marks another achievement, following the lunar hop by Vikram (lander), showcasing the capability of reigniting…
