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While the engineers and scientists at ISRO were solely responsible for the successful launch of the Chandrayaan 3 lunar mission, they will be supported by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) in ensuring that the overall mission is successful…

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) exoplanet mission, Cheops has found the shiniest planet yet, planet LTT9779 b which orbits its host star, LTT9779 about 260 light years away from Earth. Although the planet was first discovered in 2020, new detailed measurements from the Cheops spacecraft have found that it reflects even more light shone on it from its host star than the shiniest planet in our solar system, Venus, reflects the light shone on it from our Sun. Venus reflects around 75 per cent of the Sun's light, as…

The low Earth orbit is becoming a dangerous playing field. At present, there are 4,411 SpaceX Starlink satellites that roam there and CEO Elon Musk plans to launch many more of them in the near future. As a result, these lower orbits are beginning to get very crowded. A new report has found that Starlink satellites had to make more than 25,000 collision-avoidance maneuvers in just a six-month period to avoid hitting another object in space. That is around 137 maneuvers a day, on average.As per a report filed by SpaceX…

A SpaceX rocket in Florida stood poised for launch on Saturday carrying an orbital telescope built to shed light on mysterious cosmic phenomena known as dark energy and dark matter, unseen forces scientists say account for 95 percent of the known universe.The telescope dubbed Euclid, a European Space Agency (ESA) instrument named for the ancient Greek mathematician called the "father of geometry," was bundled inside the cargo bay of a Falcon 9 rocket set for blast-off around 11 am EDT (1500 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Space…

Dark energy, and dark matter, take us into a world of the invisible universe that is very much there, but we cannot observe it. And it is bigger than the observable universe! And now, NASA and ESA are tackling this mysterious force right in earnest to reveal its hidden secrets. According to NASA, dark energy and dark matter are an invisible form of matter that make up most of the universe's mass and creates its underlying structure. 68% of the universe is dark energy, and the rest 27% is dark matter which leaves only 5%…

This is SpaceX Crew-7 with all four crewmembers sitting in the Crew Dragon Endurance that will fly them to the International Space Station. From left to right it is Konstantin Borisov from Roscosmos, Andreas Mogensen from ESA, Jasmin Moghbeli from NASA and Satoshi Furukawa from JAXA. Credit: SpaceX<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>SpaceX</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Commonly known as SpaceX, Space Exploration…

As the video game industry tried to find its footing after the COVID-19 pandemic, the Entertainment Software Association elected to hold an all-digital E3 in 2021, which let developers and publishers hold online showcases under the show's banner. Based on public filings of financial records, that choice ended up losing more money than it earned.Tax documents filed by the ESA in 2021--which are available for public consumption due to its nonprofit status--found by IGN show the organization spent a total of…

The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch the Euclid spacecraft to explore the dark mysteries of the universe on Saturday, US space agency NASA has said. Liftoff will be from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.“The ESA (European Space Agency) and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 11:11 a.m. EDT Saturday, July 1, to launch the Euclid spacecraft,” NASA said in a statement.The mission will shed light on the nature of dark matter and dark energy – two of the biggest modern…

Despite multiple cancellations leading to widespread speculation that the E3 games conference may be gone for good, the Entertainment Software Association, which has traditionally organized the event, begs to differ. According to the association behind the event, nothing is set in stone, and there may be hope for E3's future. Notes from a recent Los Angeles City Tourism Board tell a different story, listing convention cancellations for both E3 2024 and 2025--though it doesn't outright say the entire expo…

It doesn’t look like E3 will be returning anytime soon, as a new document from the Los Angeles City Tourism Commission claims that both E3 2024 and E3 2025 have been canceled. For over 20 years, the Entertainment Software Association held an event called E3 each June, where companies from around the video game industry would come together and show off their upcoming games. It got canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the ESA took 2022 off after a rough digital-only show in 2021. The expo was set to…