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UPCOMING SPACE MISSIONS

Most anticipated space launches in 2020

5 unique space missions that ISRO will be flying in the near future

India’s Yuri Gagarin moment approaches closer, astronauts begin training for Gaganyaan in Russia

PLANETARY SCIENCE

How NASA and Chandrayaan discovered water on the Moon

Is the solar system’s largest storm dying?

How the Apollo missions transformed our understanding of the Moon’s origin

ASTROPHYSICS

First results from Voyagers, the NASA spacecraft at the edge of interstellar space

On the verge of revealing a singularity

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the story of finding our place among billions of stars

SPACE TECH

Space grade electronics or How NASA’s Juno survives near Jupiter

Explainer – Why did it take so long to find the Chandrayaan 2 lander?

Gravity assist: The simple physics trick that’s allowed humanity to explore deep space

INTERVIEWS

Interviewing neutrino-hunting particle physicist Kate Scholberg

Interviewing Prof. Miron Livny, whose open computing system contributed to two Nobel Prizes

Interview: Shrinivas Kulkarni, finder of a thousand exploding stars

EXOPLANETS

The most extreme planets scientists have discovered in our galaxy

What are the possibilities for life around the Universe’s most common stars?

Where does India’s first exoplanet discovery fit in?

CHANDRAYAAN 2 – INDIA’S MISSION TO LAND ON THE MOON

Space Digest – Everything you need to know about Chandrayaan 2

Chandrayaan 2’s landing failure and the road ahead

ISRO needs night survival technologies for future Moon missions and beyond

SCIENCE FICTION

Can there be a galactic empire?

How science fiction helps us contemplate the vastness of reality

Planet around two suns

How Isaac Asimov used science fiction to point out our biases

LATEST ARTICLES

ISRO’s Chandrayaan 2 orbiter is creating the highest resolution map of the Moon

Which company does the Moon emoji right?

Super Saturn – How does a planet maintain rings 200 times larger than Saturn’s?

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