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Lots of galaxies have bright arcs of stars that spiral away from their center, including our Milky Way.

PSLV-C56 mission to launch 7 payloads incl. 351.9kg DS-SAR from Singapore on July 26. Other payloads are Arcade, Velox-AM, Orb-12 Strider, Galassia-2, SCOOB-II, NuLIon in LEO. Follows successful launch of Chandrayaan-3 on July 14.

India's third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has captured the imagination of the public as it sets off to the moon. With improved designs and safeguards, ISRO hopes to succeed in the mission and become the fourth nation to land on the moon. If successful, it will be a major fillip for…

On July 16, 1994, fragments from comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck the giant planet Jupiter. The impacts, which ended on July 22, provided for a celestial spectacle. A.S.Ganesh tells you more about the first real-time observation of an extraterrestrial collision in our solar system…

Light from ancient galaxies took more than 13bn years to reach Nasa’s £6.8bn James Webb probe and have provided scientists with stunning images

ISRO to fire onboard thrusters of Chandrayaan-3 from July 15 to take it to Moon's south pole for soft-landing on Aug 23. Scientists to perform several orbit raising manoeuvres during 41-day phase.

One of the best meteor displays of the year will be visible soon: The Perseid Shower. But there also are a number of minor meteor displays that will be peaking in the next couple of weeks.

Three NASA Orion spacecraft for the agency's Artemis moon program are coming together at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The velocity of interstellar objects passing through our solar system, like 'Oumuamua, can be correlated to their chemistry and the type of star they came from.