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Thanks to Starlink There’s a New Void in Space: the Absence of Rules of the Road

Vasudevan Mukunth 20/11/2019

An abundance of financial incentives, a dearth of policies...

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Why Astronomers Are Up in Arms Against SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites

Abhijeet Borkar 14/06/2019

A thousand-dozen satellites would outnumber stars visible to the...

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Welcome to Khagol Mandal, Gateway to the Cosmos

Scharada Dubey 02/02/2019

The International Astronomical Union recognised the efforts of this...

A general assembly in progress at the International Astronomical Union. Representative image. Credit: IAU

Where Are India’s Women Astronomers?

Aswin Sekhar 08/03/2018

The ratio of female to male professional astronomers in...

The Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur, Tamil Nadu. Credit: Prateek Karandikar/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Remembering M.K. Vainu Bappu, the Indian Comet Hunter

Aswin Sekhar 09/08/2017

Apart from helming the International Astronomical Union, Bappu is...

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New Dwarf Planet Found Far Beyond Pluto

Sandhya Ramesh 12/07/2016

The discovery of RR245 should not come as a...

The Kuiper belt is a busy place. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University APL/SRI/Alex Parker

NASA Mission Brings Pluto into Sharp Focus – but it’s Still Not a Planet

David Rothery 07/07/2015

Pluto was embraced as the solar system’s ninth planet...