Sun Exploration

Days after scripting history by becoming the only nation to achieve a successful soft landing near the south pole of the moon, India added another feather to its space exploration cap on Saturday with the successful launch of the Aditya L1 mission.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch the country's first solar mission, Aditya L-1 on September 2. ISRO informed earlier that the Aditya L-1 will be launched at 11:50 am from Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.

FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said Monday that the cryptocurrency exchange isn't planning to acquire Huobi Group, a Seychelles-based crypto exchange. The billionaire said via tweet, "Just to be explicit because apparently a lot of people are saying this: No, we are not planning to acquire Huobi."

Examining samples from asteroid Ryugu, scientists have made a startling discovery. They have spotted microscopic grains of ancient materials that are even older than our Solar System. Located in the near-Earth solar orbit, asteroid Ryugu is shaped like a spinning top and orbits the Sun every 16 months.

Scientists studied materials taken from the asteroid by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 probe, which landed on Ryugu in 2018. The spacecraft retrieved 0.2 ounces (5.4 grams) of material from the asteroid's surface and subsurface in 2019, stored it in an airtight container, and returned it to Earth.

NASA is working towards exploring if solar sails could be a viable way for space-based travel. Solar sails are mirror-like devices mounted on spacecraft that capture the Sun's light. The captured light exerts radiation pressure on the sails and thus propels the spacecraft through the vacuum of space.

China is experimenting with an “artificial sun,” dubbed Experiential Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), to make way for clean energy in the future. The device setup is a fusion reactor which ran successfully for almost 20 minutes at a stunning 70 million degrees Celsius in a recent test. The machine strives to utilise the power of nuclear...

In Anjini Dhawan's throwback holiday album, she shared memories ranging from swimming in the clear blue waters, sun-bathing on a wooden deck, exploring the sandy beaches and enjoying gorgeous sunsets

Aditya Birla Capital's Board of Directors has provided an in-principle approval to Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC to explore the possibility of an initial public offering, Aditya Birla Capital said

Sweden is collaborating with India for the Venus orbiter mission “Shukrayaan”. Ambassador of Sweden to India, Klas Molin, said Swedish Institute of Space Physics’ (IRF) satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer (VNA) will study how the charged particles from the Sun interact with the atmosphere.

NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.

Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.

Sun and wind both have been used for preserving food since time immemorial. Here is a lowdown on the process of preservation through sundrying.

The US-European Solar Orbiter probe launches Sunday night from Florida on a voyage to deepen our understanding of the Sun and how it shapes the space weather that impacts technology back on Earth.

Is Mercury's core liquid or solid, and why -- on the smallest planet in our solar system -- is it so big? What can the planet closest to the Sun tell us about how our solar system came into being?

Days after scripting history by becoming the only nation to achieve a successful soft landing near the south pole of the moon, India added another feather to its space exploration cap on Saturday with the successful launch of the Aditya L1 mission.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to launch the country's first solar mission, Aditya L-1 on September 2. ISRO informed earlier that the Aditya L-1 will be launched at 11:50 am from Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.

FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said Monday that the cryptocurrency exchange isn't planning to acquire Huobi Group, a Seychelles-based crypto exchange. The billionaire said via tweet, "Just to be explicit because apparently a lot of people are saying this: No, we are not planning to acquire Huobi."

Examining samples from asteroid Ryugu, scientists have made a startling discovery. They have spotted microscopic grains of ancient materials that are even older than our Solar System. Located in the near-Earth solar orbit, asteroid Ryugu is shaped like a spinning top and orbits the Sun every 16 months.

Scientists studied materials taken from the asteroid by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 probe, which landed on Ryugu in 2018. The spacecraft retrieved 0.2 ounces (5.4 grams) of material from the asteroid's surface and subsurface in 2019, stored it in an airtight container, and returned it to Earth.

NASA is working towards exploring if solar sails could be a viable way for space-based travel. Solar sails are mirror-like devices mounted on spacecraft that capture the Sun's light. The captured light exerts radiation pressure on the sails and thus propels the spacecraft through the vacuum of space.

China is experimenting with an “artificial sun,” dubbed Experiential Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), to make way for clean energy in the future. The device setup is a fusion reactor which ran successfully for almost 20 minutes at a stunning 70 million degrees Celsius in a recent test. The machine strives to utilise the power of nuclear...

In Anjini Dhawan's throwback holiday album, she shared memories ranging from swimming in the clear blue waters, sun-bathing on a wooden deck, exploring the sandy beaches and enjoying gorgeous sunsets

Aditya Birla Capital's Board of Directors has provided an in-principle approval to Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC to explore the possibility of an initial public offering, Aditya Birla Capital said

Sweden is collaborating with India for the Venus orbiter mission “Shukrayaan”. Ambassador of Sweden to India, Klas Molin, said Swedish Institute of Space Physics’ (IRF) satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer (VNA) will study how the charged particles from the Sun interact with the atmosphere.

NASA's most advanced Mars rover, Perseverance, launches from Earth on July 30, on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life on what was once a river delta three-and-a-half billion years ago.

Pluto, a frigid little world inhabiting the solar system's outer reaches, may have been born as a warmer place sheltering a subsurface ocean that still exists today, researchers said on Monday.

Sun and wind both have been used for preserving food since time immemorial. Here is a lowdown on the process of preservation through sundrying.

The US-European Solar Orbiter probe launches Sunday night from Florida on a voyage to deepen our understanding of the Sun and how it shapes the space weather that impacts technology back on Earth.

Is Mercury's core liquid or solid, and why -- on the smallest planet in our solar system -- is it so big? What can the planet closest to the Sun tell us about how our solar system came into being?