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A colossal comet with a size reminiscent of a small city has explosively burst for the second time in the span of four months while hurtling towards the sun, reported Live Science. This celestial entity, known as 12P/Pons-Brooks, is categorized as a cryovolcanic comet, characterized by its solid nucleus measuring approximately 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) in diameter. Within its core lies a mixture of...

NEW DELHI: Isro chairman S Somanath on Monday met chess grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa at his Chennai residence and said that he “will surely inspire young people including in the space domain”.After meeting Praggnanandhaa and his family at his residence in Chennai on Monday, Somanath said, “We are proud we have a Pragyan (rover) on the Moon, and he is Praggnanandhaa on the ground...what we did for...

NEW DELHI: Isro on Saturday evening announced that Aditya L1 spacecraft has “travelled beyond a distance of 9.2 lakh kilometres from the Earth, successfully escaping the sphere of Earth’s influence”.Even as the Isro is keeping a close watch on the movement of Aditya L1 to its destination point ‘L1’, it is simultaneously making preparations in full gear for its Venus mission ‘Shukrayaan’,...

NEW DELHI: The government is looking to create more dedicated parking space around Kartavya Path and the upcoming Common Central Secretariat (CCS) buildings to meet the requirement of visitors and office goers. TOI has learnt that the necessity for this was felt primarily because creating huge parking spaces in basements of upcoming CCS buildings is taking more time and impacting the timelines of these...

BENGALURU: India’s first solar space observatory mission, Aditya-L1, early Tuesday began its 110-day-long journey to L1, about 1.5-million-km from Earth, with Isro completing the Trans-Lagrangian1 Insertion (TLI) flawlessly.The L1 refers to Lagrange Point-1 of the Sun-Earth system. It is a location in space where the gravitational forces of two celestial bodies, such as the Sun and Earth, are in...