City-killer asteroids orbiting near Venus could someday hit Earth without warning, says study

City-killer asteroids orbiting near Venus could someday hit Earth without warning, says study

A swarm of giant “city killer” asteroids hiding near Venus could someday pose a threat to Earth. Also known as co-orbital asteroids, these space rocks are difficult to track since they often travel near planets without orbiting them and have no fixed trajectory. According to a new study by astronomers at the Sao Paulo State […]

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Scientists stumble across a massive black hole that woke up from slumber after 20 years

Scientists stumble across a massive black hole that woke up from slumber after 20 years

In a new, groundbreaking discovery, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that woke up from slumber after 20 years of inactivity. Located in the heart of the SDSS1335+0728 galaxy in the Virgo constellation, which is around 300 million light years away, the massive black hole was detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility after it […]

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India’s first privately built rocket set for November 15 launch

India’s first privately built rocket set for November 15 launch

India’s first privately developed rocket — Vikram-S — is set for a November 15 launch on a sub-orbital mission with three payloads, Hyderabad-based space startup Skyroot Aerospace has announced. The maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named ‘Prarambh’ (the beginning), will carry payloads of two Indian and one foreign customers and is set for launch from […]

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ISRO successfully carries out key test of its heaviest rocket’s engine

ISRO successfully carries out key test of its heaviest rocket’s engine

The flight acceptance hot test of CE-20 engine has been successfully carried out in the High Altitude Test facility of ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu for a duration of 25 seconds. The engine is earmarked for the LVM3-M3 mission identified for launching the next 36 OneWeb India-1 satellites, the Indian Space […]

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Latest four-member SpaceX crew, including cosmonaut, welcomed aboard space station

Latest four-member SpaceX crew, including cosmonaut, welcomed aboard space station

A four-member SpaceX Crew Dragon team, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Native American woman sent to orbit, safely docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday and moved aboard to begin a five-month science mission. Rendezvous of the latest NASA expedition to the orbiting laboratory came just after 5 p.m. EDT (2100 […]

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Space news weekly recap: DART crash, Artemis 1 postponed and more

Space news weekly recap: DART crash, Artemis 1 postponed and more

Last week, NASA successfully crashed the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in what is humanity’s first planetary defence test. Elsewhere, the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft had to be rolled back into the space agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building to protect the stack from the effects of Hurricane Ian. Read about […]

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Space news weekly recap: Blue Origin rocket crash, diamonds in a meteorite, and more

Space news weekly recap: Blue Origin rocket crash, diamonds in a meteorite, and more

Last week, we were reminded that spaceflight is still hard when Jeff Bezos-owned Blue Origin’s rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after launch. Fortunately, no one was aboard the spacecraft and nobody was injured during the mishap. Read more about the crash and other interesting news on our weekly space news recap. Blue Origin rocket […]

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Space news weekly recap: China’s plans for lunar minerals, Indian reusable rocket and more

Space news weekly recap: China’s plans for lunar minerals, Indian reusable rocket and more

While NASA began its work to replace the faulty hydrogen seal on the Artemis 1 mission’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, ISRO announced that it will be working on designing and building a reusable launch vehicle for the global market. Read about al the interesting space news that happened over the last week in our […]

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James Webb Space Telescope captures image of near-perfect ‘Einstein ring’

James Webb Space Telescope captures image of near-perfect ‘Einstein ring’

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an almost perfect “Einstein ring.” An Einstein ring is a ring of light created when light from a galaxy, star or other light-emitting cosmic objects passes near a massive object before it reaches the Earth, or in this case, the Webb telescope. When this happens, […]

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