Context For about four decades scientists have debated if the organic compounds found on the surface of the meteorite called Alan Hills (ALH) 84001–which landed on Earth from Mars in…

Context After a rather muted 2021 in terms of satellite launches, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up for a number of missions in 2022 including the launch of…

Context Recently, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful space telescope ever built, launched from French Guiana, on the northeast coast of South America, on the…

Context Recently, NASA launched a new mission named Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer or IXPE Mission. About IXPE Mission Onboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, it was sent to its orbit from NASA’s…

Context Recently, NASA launched its new Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) the agency’s first-ever laser communications system from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. About Laser Communications Relay Demonstration…

Context Recently, Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace announced that it has successfully tested India's first privately built fully cryogenic engine 'Dhawan-1'. About Dhawan-1 The engine, which has been named in honour of…

Context The World Health Organization has classified a new variant of the novel coronavirus, which belongs to a lineage named B.1.1.529, as a ‘variant of concern’, and named is Omicron. This variant…