Lunar

The first solar eclipse of 2022 will take place on April 30. The celestial phenomenon, though partial, will sweep across the south and south-western parts of South America, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and most of the Antartica but will not be visible from this part of the world, astrophysicist and the former director of M P Birla Planetarium Debi Prasad Duari said. People in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia or in Antartica can see the celestial phenomenon, Duari added.…

The May celestial calendar for looks exciting for skygazers. The month begins and ends with a couple of great planet-spotting opportunities and NASA has shared a full list of those events as part of its monthly, “What's Up” series. The agency called on all moon gazers to mark their calendars for the month's highlight: the next total lunar eclipse, which will be visible in the Western Hemisphere on March 15-16. Lunar eclipses are incredible celestial events when the Earth comes in between the Sun and the Moon. No…

Russia will launch a lunar probe later this year and deepen cooperation with Belarus on space infrastructure and technology, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.Speaking at a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, Putin recalled Soviet successes in space and said no sanctions on Russia could halt its progress.What Russia calls its "special military operation" to demilitarise and "denazify" Ukraine triggered a barrage of sanctions from Western…

The European Space Agency on Wednesday ended cooperation with Russia on three missions to the Moon due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, following a previous decision to do the same for a Mars mission.The ESA said it would "discontinue cooperative activities" on Luna-25, 26 and 27, a series of Russian lunar missions on which the European agency had aimed to test new equipment and technology.In late March, collaboration on ExoMars, a plan to land a rover on Mars to drill into the soil and search for signs of life, was…