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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is performing even better than scientists anticipated after engineers completed an extensive series of tests and precision adjustments. The work has brought the observatory's powerful instruments into exceptionally sharp focus, with its main camera…
The Orionid meteor shower in 2026 will reach its peak overnight from October 21 to 22, giving stargazers a chance to see bright meteors streaking across the night sky. This annual event occurs when Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet.
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Astronomers have identified a star whose colour would be perceived by the human eye as green for the first time. TodayPress TV reports, citing CNN, that the findings were published in the journal RAS Techniques and Instruments. The object is…
The successful Antares launch restored U.S. cargo ship redundancy for NASA space station crews. On Oct. 17, 2016, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Space Systems) returned to flight, successfully launching a cargo shipment to the International Space Station (ISS) after its previous cargo…
Venus is now too close to the sun in our sky to see it as the 'evening star,' especially with the haze layer that always hugs our horizon. Venus will be at inferior conjunction, in between us and the sun,…
General Aviation News LOS ANGELES — Advance reservations for the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center — the permanent home of Space Shuttle Endeavour — at the California Science Center will be available starting Oct. 21, 2026, ahead of the new center’s public opening on…
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California is working on some of the most ambitious missions in space exploration, from operating the Perseverance rover on Mars to developing technologies that could improve how scientists monitor natural disasters on Earth. Its…
GK Today Indian Scientists Identify Martian Analogue Sites On 16 October 2026, Indian scientists identified terrestrial sites in Tamil Nadu and Chile containing minerals that provide geological analogues for studying Mars. The minerals are melanterite, found at Neyveli, and gypsum, found in…
India scientists have discovered geological locations in Tamil Nadu and Chile that are similar to Mars’s environment, which could allow scientists to learn about water processing on Mars and evaluate conditions that may have previously supported life. A team of…