Written by Vidhi Jain, a grade 7 student.
The Winter Solstice takes place when one of the Earth’s poles has its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice a year, once in each hemisphere…
Written by Tanush Sahasrabuddhe, a grade 3 student
An Earth Observation Satellite? Hmmm.. they must be used for some kind of observation. Yes, but what do they do? They are used for earth observation from orbit. Did you know, an orbit is the gravitationally
Written by Aryan Pratap Singh, a grade 8 student.
Since 2011, post the canning of the space shuttle program, NASA has had to rely on Russian made Soyuz capsules launching from Kazakhstan to take astronauts into space….
Written by Madhav Bahl, a grade 8 student.
These are actually radio waves that release bursts of energy (more in a few thousandths of a second than the sun releases in nearly a century – imagine that!?
Written by Naman Anil Kumar, a grade 7 student.
Gaganyaan is the first human less spacecraft which will be launched from India, and it will travel 400 km away from the Earth. It will carry three crew members to orbit and safely return back to the Earth after a mission taking up to seven days.
Written by Naina Singh, a grade 6 student (with inputs from Rhea Kochhar)
Water is a simple necessity of life here on earth, but what about space? Have you ever wondered, is there water in space? Astronauts have been going to space, since Yuri Gagarin went for the first time, in 1961.
Written by Nihal Dhingra, a grade 9 student.
Pluto, earlier considered as the ninth planet of the solar system, is now known as a dwarf planet since the year 2006 as it did not meet the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) planetary criteria; it hasn’t cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit of other objects.
Written by Madhav Bahl, a grade 8 student.
Our planet is fast reaching the maximum amount of population that it can hold. Many scientists think Earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 billion to 10 billion people. Actually, it is around 7 billion to 8.5 billion. Well, how do you calculate the seven billion?
Written by Saachi Singh, a grade 8 student.
An astronaut travelling to space needs various kinds of equipment for survival, research, data collection, and storage, etc. It’s important that everything that an astronaut uses, and also the structure they live in must be safe and tested and not compromise the astronaut’s safety in any way…
Written by Agastya Sharma, a grade 6 student (junior editor I Kid You Not).
The Chandrayaan-2 mission was a highly complex mission, with a complete set of orbiter, lander and rover, to explore the South Pole of the moon, a feat never accomplished before…