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…
Written by Arshiya Sangar, a grade 11 student.
On Sunday, August 16, at 12:08 am EST (9:38 am Indian Time), an asteroid the size of an SUV passed by Earth. This asteroid, flying above the southern Indian Ocean, about 2950 kilometers (1830 miles) away, was the closest recorded asteroid to pass by Earth without impacting the surface…
Written by Amrita Prakash, a grade 7 student.
Two teenage Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid heading towards India!