Europa Clipper Completes First Deep Space Radar Test at Mars

Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft flying past the red planet Mars, with large solar panels extended and radar antennas visible.

NASA’s interplanetary mission Europa Clipper has recently crossed an important milestone. On March 1, while passing near Mars, this spacecraft successfully tested its powerful radar instrument REASON (Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface) in space for the first time. This was a test that was not possible to do on Earth. Now … Read more

NGC 6072: A Dying Star’s Final Moments Caught by James Webb

James Webb Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 6072, showing glowing blue gas surrounded by fiery red-orange filaments created by the dying star’s expanding outer layers.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown a glimpse of a dying star that you have rarely seen before. What you are seeing in this photo is not a colorful painting, but a star taking its last breaths. This cloud-like shape of glowing gas and dust is actually a planetary nebula named NGC 6072, which … Read more

SpaceX Launches 28 New Starlink Satellites After Global Outage, Boosting Mega Constellation

Long-exposure photo of a rocket launch lighting up the night sky with a curved trail

On July 26, 2025, the orbital population of Earth grew once again as SpaceX successfully launched 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit (LEO). This mission, designated Starlink Group 10-26, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 5:01 a.m. EDT (0901 GMT / 2:31 p.m. IST). With this, the company continues its … Read more