Why in news? NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said the first person on Mars is ‘likely to be a woman’. The NASA administrator did not identify a specific person but said wo... Read more

Why in news? National space agency ISRO and its French counterpart CNES sealed an agreement to set up a joint maritime surveillance system in the country. The two nations will explore puttin... Read more

Why in news? The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the Setting up of a new company under Department of Space (DoS), to commercially exploit the research and development work carried ou... Read more

Why in news? The international team behind the unprecedented space survey said their discovery literally shed new light on some of the Universe’s deepest secrets, including the physics of bl... Read more

What to know? As per the interim budget, the funds allocated to the Indian Space Research Organisation for 2019-20 have crossed Rs 10,000 crore for the first time. At Rs 10,252 crore, the al... Read more

What to know? The Human Space Flight Centre (HSFC), the hub of ISRO’s future manned missions, was inaugurated at ISRO headquarters in Bengaluru. Announced on August 15 2018, the countr... Read more

Why in news? A three-week long programme entitled, ‘Cosmology – The next decade’, which consisted of a school to train early career researchers and a workshop for active researchers in the f... Read more