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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicAsteroids

Topic: asteroids

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft returns samples of asteroid Ryugu to Earth

Sandhya Ramesh -
Samples of both surface dust and material from below the surface of asteroid Ryugu were collected. These are likely to give insights into the evolution of our solar system.

Indian Ocean once had world’s most continuously-active volcanic province, find scientists

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Fossils found in Antarctica in 1980s belong to ‘giant, bony-toothed’ birds from 2.5m yrs ago

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

In first-ever cosmic game of ‘TAG’, NASA probe successfully touches asteroid to collect samples

Mohana Basu -
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will bring back the rock samples from ancient asteroid Bennu by 2023, which will allow scientists to learn more about the ancient solar system.

2 IIT Bombay students discovered the asteroid that flew closest to Earth

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week.

Great Barrier Reef faces third bleaching event & world’s oldest salamander in Siberia

Mohana Basu -
ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Earth’s oldest-known impact crater, formed 2.23 bn yrs ago, is in Australia: Geologists

Sandhya Ramesh -
The crater is in Yarrabubba in Western Australia. Scientists speculate the impact could have helped bring the Earth out of the ice age.

Slum boy to start-up founder — 19-yr-old to now help govt build astronomy labs in schools

Mohana Basu -
Aryan Mishra, who discovered an asteroid 5 years ago, builds low-cost labs in schools. His efforts recently caught the government's attention.

An asteroid orbiting between Mars and Jupiter could be a new dwarf planet

Sandhya Ramesh -
The asteroid, named Hygiea, is the fourth largest asteroid that likely originated two billion years ago. 

An asteroid just whizzed past Earth, and we barely noticed in time

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The asteroid, labelled 2019 OK, is about the size of a large airplane. Had it hit, it could have wiped out an entire city.
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Digital push for grassroots banking: 2 new apps to transform urban cooperative banks for 9 cr users

Udit Bubna -
Cooperation Ministry takes a step towards financial inclusion with Sahkar DigiPay and Sahkar DigiLoan. They will enable faster and seamless access to financial services in small towns.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

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At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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