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India is entering the space industry.

India is opening doors for private companies to enter space.
PM Narendra Modi launched the Indian Space Association that will serve as a “single-window” for matters of space technology.
What is India’s game plan to win the global space race?
Palki Sharma tells you.

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Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a gigantic comet — and they say it’s headed towards Earth.

The comet was discovered by University of Pennsylvania astronomers Pedro Bernadinelli and Gary Bernstein, according to The Daily Beast. The pair initially found evidence of a 60 to 100 mile wide comet seven years ago and have finally released a paper confirming it late last month in the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Dubbed the Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB) comet, the astronomers also described it as the “nearly spherical cow of comets” in the paper.

The historic mission is still going strong.

A Chinese lander and rover are still up and running more than 1,000 Earth days after they made a historic first-ever landing on the far side of the moon.

The Chang’e 4 lander carrying the Yutu 2 rover touched down in Von Kármán Crater on Jan. 2 2019, and the robotic mission has been exploring the unique area of our celestial neighbor ever since.

NASA’s next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch.

The Lucy spacecraft is targeting a launch window that opens on Saturday (Oct. 16). After blastoff, the spacecraft will make a 12-year journey to the outer solar system, where it will visit half a dozen ancient “Trojan” asteroids that orbit in the same path as the planet Jupiter.

Not all who wander are lost – but sometimes their cell phone reception is. That might change soon if a plan to project basic cell phone coverage to all parts of the globe comes to fruition. Lynk has already proven it can use a typical smartphone to bound a standard SMS text message off a low-earth-orbiting satellite, and they don’t plan to stop there.

Formerly known as Ubiquitilink, Lynk was founded a few years ago by Nanoracks founder Charles Miller and his partners but came out of “stealth mode” as a start-up in 2019. In 2020 they then used a satellite to send an SMS message from a typical smartphone, without requiring the fancy GPS locators and antennas needed by other, specially made satellite phones.

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune may have sent the Earth-sized planet barreling toward deep space.

Scientists believe that there could be a ninth planet in our solar system, lurking somewhere beyond Neptune—but don’t get too excited, because this isn’t about Pluto.

Rather, this is the story of a mysterious Earth-or Mars-sized planet that may have swirled beyond the asteroid belt, among the gas giants, before they ultimately swept this potential “Planet 9” toward the outer reaches of our solar system… or even into deep space. The theory makes sense on its face: Jupiter is kind of known as a bully, after all.

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Going to the bathroom becomes more challenging when you are in space. Check here how the astronauts empty their bladders and stomachs in space.

Circa 2018

NASA is developing a spacesuit with a built-in toilet system, something the agency hasn’t used regularly since the Apollo era.

It’s the question we all want to know the answer to… what are the toilets like in space?

Well never fear the answer is here… NASA have just spent over $23 million dollars (£16 million) on a brand new toilet!

Going to the toilet is a basic human need but when you’re in space with a lack of gravity things can get a bit tricky, but it’s about to get easier.