Where is Tonga? Tonga, officially called the Kingdom of Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom situated in the South Pacific Ocean, nearly 2000 miles east of Brisbane, Australia. It is also named as “The Friendly Islands” . There are over 170 islands divided into four major island groups: The Tongatapu Group…
A potentially hazardous asteroid is going to come into our neighborhood in space as it will come close to the earth tonight . NASA keeps an eye on the asteroid that are zooming past or hurtling towards the earth. The cruising speed is 94,000 km per hour. Asteroid 2016 AJ193…
“Are we alone?” Is probably the thought that haunts not only every astrophysicist but many others who realise how infinitely vast our universe is. We have been searching for life in our own solar system on planets like Mars, Europa and as NASA announced recently even Venus. But citizen scientists…
Extra-terrestrial possibility of life has been the main focus of Space Research ever since we got to know how to escape the Earth. NASA has been studying Mars for decades now, to find microbial life signs in the planet. Even Jupiter’s Europa was said to be potential enough for life…
The Rover and Helicopter launched by NASA on 30th July, 2020 on an Atlas V launch vehicle had a goal of landing on Jezero crater on Mars one of the eight shortlisted places for the vehicle to land and for experimenting exobiological relevance of former habitat on Mars and also…
SpaceX breaks India’s record of most satellite launch in a mission: Elon Musk have been the talk since the last year. Recently after launching Tesla car this month in India, his company SpaceX broke India’s previous world record of record ( or should I say space record) of launching most…