26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
...that it was hidden away in permanently shaded craters near the poles. However, data gathered from both India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), detected signatures interpreted as water in sunlight reflected from...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... of scientists in Hawaii. The discovery has been made by data acquired by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) onboard India's Chandrayaan-1 mission launched in 2008. In the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
01 January 2020
What has been in 2019 and what is to come in 2020!
... astronomical discoveries. The race to the Moon, in one way or another, dominated the headlines throughout the year; India and SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) both strove to place their first lander on the Moon...
06 January 2020
New evidence suggests that Venus has active volcanoes
... clockwork rover inspired by mechanical computers called AREE; the Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments. Meanwhile both India and Russia with their Shukrayaan-1 orbiter and Venera-D spacecraft, respectively, are also currently in development with...
28 February 2020
Record-breaking black hole eruption detected by astronomers
... data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India. "We've seen outbursts in the centres of galaxies before but this one is really, really massive," says Professor Melanie...
18 September 2020
NASA chiefs hint that Artemis will land at Apollo site, not lunar poles
... Moon are announced, quite often, if not nearly always, the destination of choice is the lunar south pole. India, China, Europe and the US are among the many countries with either governmental agencies or private firms...
