Enceladus
Context: NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected an unusually high concentration of methane, along with carbon dioxide and dihydrogen, in the moons of
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Auroras on Mars
Context: The UAE’s Hope spacecraft, which is orbiting Mars since February this year, has captured images of glowing atmospheric lights known as discrete auroras. Auroras on
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Hubble Space Telescope
Context: NASA reports trouble with the Hubble Space Telescope. The telescope has been down for the past few days. The problem is
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EnVision Mission to Venus
Context: Recently, European Space Agency (ESA) has announced a new mission- EnVision mission to Venus. About EnVision Mission: EnVision is an
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NASA sending water bears, baby squid to the International Space Station
Context: Nasa has sent glow-in-the-dark baby squids and about 5,000 tardigrades, also called water bears, to the International Space Station. They were part of the 22nd SpaceX
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VERITAS & DAVINCI+
Context: NASA has announced two new missions to Venus. These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like
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Cosmic rays propagating through Milky Way
Ministry of Science & Technology Context: High energy particles are generally lower in number in the cosmic universe. But the
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