Myth: There is a Dark side of the Moon
Reality: This confusion is due to tidal locking, which makes it seem as if the moon isn’t rotating. The moon actually is spinning quite…
Myth: Black Holes
Reality: Despite their incredibly misleading names, Black Holes aren’t actually ‘holes’. They’re actually massively dense objects with stupidly strong gravitational pulls. Still absolutely…
There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the galaxy.
The number of trees on Earth is mind-boggling, as Allisade pointed out on Reddit. NASA estimates that there are between 100 billion and 400 billion…
Supernova Explosion Energy
A Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10-billion-year lifetime and…
Mangalyaan’s First Birthday – 2014
Marking the first anniversary – the day on which India created history by successfully placing Mangalyaan in the orbit around…
Aryabhata – Indian Satellite
Aryabhata, first unmanned Earth satellite built by India. It was named for a prominent Indian astronomer and mathematician of the 5th century CE. The satellite was assembled…
Communication Satellite
The Indian National Satellite (INSAT) system is one of the largest domestic communication satellite systems in the Asia-Pacific region with…
ISRO launches GSLV D5, India among heavyweights of rocket science
After 20 years of toil, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday took a quantum leap in mastering a rocket technology…
Space Capsule Recovery Experiment Mission established India’s technological capability to recover an orbiting satellite.
Indian space scientists have successfully brought back to earth an orbiting satellite in the first of its kind mission aimed…