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Imagine standing on the hot, stony summit of a dormant volcano overlooking the barren Peruvian Andes. In looking around at the barren, wind-swept area, the surroundings seem lifeless and completely devoid of water, appearing as though they belong on Mars rather than in a tropical mountain region.

BENGALURU: The heads of space agencies from the 11 Brics nations began a two-day closed-door meeting in Bengaluru on Tuesday, with discussions expected to centre on space sustainability, expansion of the Brics satellite constellation and mechanisms for deeper cooperation among member countries.

The theme is Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability, which reflects India's people-centric, humanity-first approach.

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to study interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after its 2025 pass around the Sun. Its unusual isotopic makeup suggests it formed 10 to 12 billion years ago, offering a rare view of material from before the Solar System existed.

A Soviet spacecraft designed to land on Venus in 1972 finally completed its journey more than half a century later, though not in the way its builders intended. Kosmos 482, part of the Soviet Union's ambitious Venera programme, was supposed to explore the Solar System's hottest planet.

Scientists analysing the Martian meteorite NWA 8171 identified garnet in an unusual rock fragment. The find could reshape understanding of ancient geological processes on Mars.

Four hundred kilometres above Earth, aboard China's Tiangong space station, a rice plant is growing inside a box roughly the size of a microwave oven. The Shenzhou-23 crew, which docked with Tiangong on May 25, 2026 after launching from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, is currently running the most ambitious iteration yet of China's two-decade effort to grow food in space.

Skyroot Aerospace has revealed how the Orbit Adjustment Module, the liquid-powered top stage of its Vikram-1 rocket, can stop and restart in space to place satellites in exact orbits. Here is how the Raman-2 engine and its thrusters turn one launch into a precise space taxi.

Skyroot Aerospace has opened a new workspace of more than 10,000 square feet at its Aero Towers campus in Hyderabad, just as its rocket Vikram-1 is being assembled on the launch pad at Sriharikota. Here is an inside look at the new workspace, the rocket and India's race to its first private orbital launch.