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‘Blood Moon’ Sunday! Total lunar eclipse set to paint the moon red. How rare is the phenomenon

India will witness the five-hour lunar eclipse and Astronomical Society has released a list of public viewings. It can be seen from the naked eye, unlike a solar eclipse.

Noctule Bats’ migration strategy involves hitching a ride with warm storm fronts, with multiple stops

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

Early Earth meteorite, or comets—scientists narrow down theories about origin of water on Moon

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

Earth has a ‘mini moon’ for 57 days. All you need to know about this bus-sized celestial visitor

Asteroid 2024 PT5 entered Earth orbit Monday & will exit the planet’s gravity on 25 November. It will travel in a horseshoe-shaped orbit & require powerful telescopes to be seen.

Chandrayaan-3 finds evidence of long-lost ocean of magma beneath lunar surface

X-ray data from Pragyan rover is first-ever sample analysis from Moon’s south pole; indicates more evidence for Lunar Magma Ocean origin theory.

The secret behind Moon’s thin atmosphere & 24-mn-yr old penguin fossil sheds light on wing evolution

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

Scientists identify Ladakh as potential analogue research site to conduct Moon, Mars mission studies

Scientists have pitched Ladakh as ideal site for India’s 1st analogue research station. Analogue research station is a place that has conditions similar to planet or planetary body.

First direct evidence of tunnel under Moon’s surface & how it could be ‘lunar base for humans’

An analysis of radar images of the Moon's sub-surface revealed the tunnels, say lead scientists from the University of Trento, Italy. The study was published in Nature Astronomy. 

Ahmedabad moon lab is waiting for Chandrayaan-4 samples. It has already studied Apollo rocks

The Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad is the only other Indian institute, apart from TIFR Mumbai, to work with lunar samples. It’s collaborating with NASA, Russia’s Roscosmos, and Japan’s JAXA.

Moon has more water than you think. ISRO finds underground ice reserves ‘5 to 8x’ larger than on surface

Study conducted by ISRO team in collaboration with NASA-JPL, IITs of Kanpur & Dhanbad, University of Southern California, published in Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

On Camera

Govt should respect the autonomy of higher education institutes: GD Parikh

With time, growing numbers and the resultant overcrowding in institutions, or issues like that of the medium of instruction, may be expected, wrote GD Parikh in 1953.

Petrol, diesel prices hiked by Rs 3 per litre as Centre moves to ease OMC losses

The hike comes amid soaring global energy costs, with government citing mounting under-recoveries and fiscal pressure on state-run oil firms

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.