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India is seeking to become just the fourth nation after Russia, the United States and China to land a spacecraft on the Moon. (Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images)
ARUN SANKAR

Proud India launches historic bid to put spacecraft on Moon

A week after an initial launch was halted just before blast-off, Chandrayaan-2 took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre

  • Arun Sankar
3 min read
A telescope pointed at the skies above Senegal to capture the stellar occultation. (Observatoire de Paris)
DAKAR

Why NASA chose Senegal to find out more about an asteroid in outerspace

Senegal has made great strides in astronomy and planetary sciences in recent years

  • David Baratoux
5 min read
Fragments of the asteroid 2018 LA scattered over a wide area in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
ASTEROID MINING

Rare meteorite recovery in Botswana can help reveal secrets of outer space

Each meteorite is a piece of the puzzle to understanding our solar system

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read