IARF Centre of Excellence for Space Exploration

This news is from early 2010s however somehow its making news again but it is worth shariing - We have found water, more then we will ever need, its just 12 billion light-years away from Earth!

Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in Earth’s oceans, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light-years away.

On Mars, Water is Life, it is Fuel too!

“You Need H2O and Not Just for Drinking”: Research Suggests an Icy Location for First Crewed Mars Landing With crewed missions to the Red Planet becoming a realistic possibility for the 2030s, researchers have begun the search for an ideal Mars landing site.

Exoplanets may well host life , these new models can help us find such

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life The search for life beyond Earth is a holy grail quest for many experts, but finding where to look is a core issue.

small satellites, Big impact!

How smaller satellites are reshaping the geostationary orbit market For decades, geostationary orbit (GEO) was the undisputed home of satellite communications. From television broadcasts to internet backhaul and voice services, GEO satellites formed the backbone of…

NASA Cleanrooms! Not so clean after all!!

Identification of Bacillus Species Isolated From Cleanrooms at NASA Johnson Space Center - Astrobiology Bacteria are frequently isolated from surfaces in cleanrooms, where astromaterials are curated, at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC)

You want to go to Mars? Then first go to Ladakh.

Spaceward Bound India 2025 - Astrobiology Protoplanet and University of Ladakh invite scientists, researchers, and field explorers to apply for Spaceward Bound India 2025

To all the space enthusiasts out there, Astrobiology needs your support!

NASA Astrobiology Research Needs Your Support - Astrobiology Editor's note: the following white paper has been circulated by leaders of the Astrobiology community in March 2025. Please read through it and consider signing so as to add your support to this immensely important multi-disciplinary, multi-national research - research that plays an increasingly imp...

Antariksh ki Kalpana

India Pays Tribute To Kalpana Chawla On Her Birth Anniversary Kalpana Chawla was India's daughter who dared to dream beyond stars, said the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, while paying tribute to the Indian-origin NASA astronaut on Monday on her birth anniversary.

Freudian Universe!

A psychoanalysis of the universe Sigmund Freud deconstructed the human psyche into three sections he called the “id”, “ego” and “superego”. According to this model - whose activity and interaction define our mental life - the uncoordinated instinctual trends constitute the “id” which is almost wholly unconscious, th...

The Space Rescue is underway

SpaceX launches a new crew to the space station to replace NASA's stuck astronauts Wednesday's launch attempt was called off after concerns over a critical hydraulic system popped up less than four hours before planned liftoff.MORE: https:/...