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Wednesday, December 24, 2025
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Topic: NASA

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.

Voyager 1 sends first readable message in 5 months, how NASA scientists fixed the glitch

Voyager 1 & 2 were launched in 1977 into solar system to understand extent of Sun’s boundary and its properties. Voyager 1 is currently 24 billion kilometers from earth.

Why are there patches of ‘moss’ on the Sun? US study might have the answer

Study by Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory and Bay Area Environmental Institute & NASA’s Ames Research Center published this week in journal Nature Astronomy.

Launch of NISAR, joint India-US Earth mapping mission, delayed. New date to be announced by April-end

NISAR will map Earth's land & ice surfaces to provide insights. Delay is due to need for special thermal coating for satellite's hardware components, so they can withstand high temp.

Total solar eclipse to happen today, won’t be visible to people in India

The whole event will take about two and a half hours, but totality will only last about four minutes. Google has created a special animation to mark this astronomical spectacle.

NASA rover confirms existence of lake sediments on Mars

According to research published in Science Advances, radar observations from the robotic rover indicate presence of ancient lake sediments on the 'red planet'.

Setback for US moon mission as Peregrine lander suffers propulsion issue, fuel leak day after take-off

The lander, the first one made in US since Project Apollo, was scheduled to land on moon 23 February. It is reportedly carrying DNA of John F. Kennedy, a piece of Mt Everest etc.

2024’s most exciting space missions– Moon’s south pole to ice-covered ocean world

New missions under NASA’s Artemis plan and Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative will target the Moon in 2024.

NASA cat-apulted a cute video to Earth from a spacecraft 31 million km away. Why this is big

The 15-second clip of a ginger tabby named Taters has become the first ultra-high definition streaming video beamed from space. It took only 101 seconds to reach Earth.

Scientists find hydrogen cyanide, key molecule for life formation, in Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus

Study published in Nature Astronomy uses data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft to reveal the icy moon has more chemical energy than previously thought & could support complex organic compounds.

On Camera

Epstein files and what they mean for the American anger against elites

Of all academic institutions, it is at Harvard, the richest and perhaps the most powerful academic institution in the world, that Epstein’s ties appear to have flourished most.

To meet fund crunch, Karnataka to auction plots in Bengaluru, raise Rs 4,000 crore

Siddaramaiah govt’s five schemes strain finances as GST changes hit revenues; debt to jump nearly Rs 80,000 crore. State also plans to auction liquor licences & extend bar timings.

Not just BSF, MHA working on rules to reserve 50% of all CAPF constable posts for Agniveers

The MHA is deliberating on new recruitment rules for all CAPFs, including the CRPF, ITBP, and SSB. It wants to incorporate a 50% quota for Agniveers across the CAPFs.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.