Russia's space agency hoped to launch its own orbital station in 2025 as Moscow considers withdrawing from the International Space Station programme to go it alone. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said work had begun on the first module of a new station, after ...

Astronomers have discovered a new active galaxy, identified as the farthest gamma-ray emitting galaxy that has so far been stumbled upon. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This active galaxy called the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxy, which is about 31 billion light-years away, opens up ...

Astronomers have found that Uranus might be emitting X-rays using the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 This new information can help scientists learn more about the seventh planet from the Sun and the ...

NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has been dropped on the surface of Mars in preparation for its first flight. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Ingenuity is a small robotic helicopter located on Mars since February 18, 2021 that is intended to make the first powered atmospheric flight on a ...

NASA's science rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology laboratory ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere and landed safely on the floor of a vast crater, its first stop on a search for traces of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. Daily Current ...

Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) first launch of 2021, PSLV-C51 carrying Amazonia-1 and 18 other satellites took off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 PSLV-C51, which is the 53rd mission of PSLV, will launch Amazonia-1 of Brazil as ...

Going to Mars is non-trivial, since both planets revolve around the Sun and are hence in constant motion relative to each other. Earth and Mars are at their closest distance relative to each other every 26 months — and this is when Earthlings try to send missions to Mars. NASA’s Perseverance ...

An intergovernmental organisation called the SKA Observatory was launched in order to give a push to radio astronomy. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) project, spanning two continents and involving the participation of 20 countries, is expected to ...

A commercial Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station early next year chartered by Axiom Space will carry four private astronauts. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The three men are paying $55 million each to fly aboard a SpaceX rocket for an eight-day visit to the International ...

The Geminids meteor shower, believed to be the strongest of the year, is active from December 4-December 20, with December 13 and 14 considered to be the best nights for viewing these meteor showers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Geminids meteor showers are unique because ...