What are Tardigrades? And Why are They In Space?
Written by Ananya Chakraborti, a grade 9 student
Tardigrades are eight-legged micro animals also known as water bears or moss piglets. They are the smallest animals of nature.
Written by Ananya Chakraborti, a grade 9 student
Tardigrades are eight-legged micro animals also known as water bears or moss piglets. They are the smallest animals of nature.
Written by Riyaan Kaul, a grade 5 student.
Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Galactica, flew into space on the 11th of July. A new age of space travel began. Branson said, “To all you kids out there….I was once a child with a dream, looking up to the stars. Now I’m an adult in a spaceship… if we can do this, just imagine what you can do.”
Written by Madhav Bahl, a grade 9 student.
NASA has dispatched 128 baby squids and around 5000 tardigrades to the International Space Station. They travelled aboard Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 22nd cargo resupply mission to the ISS (The International Space Station)…
Written by Janhvi Jain, a grade 4 student.
One more exciting piece of news has come from Nasa. Two new missions to the planet Venus have been announced! This planet next door to us is still a mystery for scientists. The missions will hope to uncover the planet’s secrets using some super cool technology…
Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person and he owns a space company called Blue Origin.
Written by Sanjana Nayakanti , a grade 6 student
Written by Tanush Sahasrabuddhe, a grade 4 student.
On the 5th of October, 2020, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) – an agency under in Ministry of Defence in India – successfully tested the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo system(SMART) off the coast of Odisha…
Written by Atharv Balaji, a grade 5 student.
On 10th April 2019, scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration – which is an international collaboration that captures images of black holes using a virtual telescope -released the first-ever picture of a black hole.
Written by Naman Anil Kumar, a grade 8 student.
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has taken images of the Natural Systems of Earth. The images were posted on Instagram last month.
Written by Atharv Balaji, a grade 5 student.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) successfully landed their Mars rover, Zhurong, on the Martian surface on 15th May 2021. China is the only country after the USA to land a rover on Mars