Indian Space Research Organisation’s(ISRO) Chandrayaan – Founder of water on Moon Chandrayaan-1 was a scientific investigation – by spacecraft – of the Moon. The name Chandrayaan means “Chandra-Moon, Yaan-vehicle”, –in Indian languages (Sanskrit and Hindi) , – the lunar spacecraft. Chandrayaan-1 is the first Indian planetary science and exploration mission. It is India’s first unmanned […]
The following is an article authored by one contributor of space.com, Charles Q. Choi on November 14, 2017. In his article, Charles explores and reports what he considers as facts about the planet Pluto. He starts by giving necessary information about the size, distance from the sun and other planets, among several different characteristics of […]
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Get startedAs long as humanity has existed, people have looked to the stars. They were used for navigation or just to tell stories or explain the universe. Mankind has always dreamt of reaching into the cosmos, and with technology constantly growing, that dream is now a reality. We are reaching further into the sky to learn […]
In the year 1608, Dutch lens maker Hans Lipperhay invented the world’s first telescope1 and a year later, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei perfected the telescope and revolutionized the way we look at space. Galileo’s observations2 included the observations of the Moon, phases of Venus, moons around Jupiter, and sunspots. Apart from concluding that the Moon […]
A volcano is defined, by NASA, as an opening on the surface of a planet or moon that allows material warmer than its surroundings to escape from its interior. While volcanoes are a generally thought of as a feature of Earth, there are plenty of other planets and even moons with a range of extinct, […]
