Spaceflight

This image of Mars was taken in October 24, with MOM taking advantage of its elliptical orbit to capture the planet's breadth. Credit: ISRO

Dry Ice, Rather Than Flowing Water, Could Have Sculpted Mars’s Mysterious Gullies

Left to right: The Velox-C1 and Kent Ridge-1 payloads on the equipment bay; integration of the first-stage segment; the C29 inside the mobile-service tower; C-29 on the first launchpad with the vehicle assembly building in the background. Credit: ISRO

ISRO to Try Launching Multiple Satellites Into Different Orbits in a Single Launch

Jeff Bezos. Source: Blue Origins

Why Has Jeff Bezos Joined the Space Race?

A Swift Observatory image of the luminous afterglow of Gamma Ray Burst GRB 080319B in X-rays (left) and Optical/Ultraviolet (right). Caption and image credit: Wikimedia Commons

ISRO Scores Big With This ASTROSAT Instrument

A poster for the film 'The Martian'. Source: Fox Movies

Mars is There, Waiting to Be Reached – Bringing it Home is the Problem

Dark, narrow streaks, each about a tenth of a kilometre long, called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. In 2015, scientists detected hydrated salts on these slopes at Hale crater, suggesting the streaks are formed by liquid water. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

NASA Finds More Signs of Liquid Water on Mars

Hoisting of the PSLV C-30 second stage during vehicle integration. Source: ISRO

PSLV Lifts Off With India’s First Astronomical Satellite

HERA (Human Exploration Research Analog). Source: Rahul Goel

What it Takes to Become an Astronaut

Pluto, as shot by the MVIC camera on board the New Horizons probe. Source: NASA

Stunning New Colour Image of Pluto Released

Hubble Space Telescope. Source: NASA

Why ASTROSAT is Not ‘India’s Hubble’

The Wire Science The Wire Science
The Wire Science@TheWireScience
3 Following 26.0K Followers
RT @1amnerd: "My ethnographic research on diabetes among Delhi’s urban poor has found that health care has never been a matter of individua…
16 hours ago
Despite the limited evidence, myofunctional therapy and tongue-tie surgeries are increasingly promoted to treat man… https://t.co/qlvPW8eG9L
17 hours ago
"Are we dealing with deliberate refusal to get vaccinated or are we dealing with vaccine hesitancy? Or are people… https://t.co/51TDSC6Ljb
19 hours ago
While perhaps always mythic, the once allegedly valiant aspirations of the space program have given way to openly t… https://t.co/Lac0mVZLVD
21 hours ago
Because seaweed comes in different forms and textures, including some species that change their texture when an ani… https://t.co/tTvAEjAQw9
23 hours ago