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Moon

The eclipses India will see through 2035, city by city

India’s next total lunar eclipse falls on New Year’s Eve 2028. Its next total solar eclipse arrives in 2034, close to sunset, and only the far north gets it.

CosmosLens EditorsNovember 11, 20265 min read

A large orange full moon rising beside the lit dome of the United States Capitol, with the city skyline in the foreground at dusk.

PlanetsExplainer

The full moon of 24 November is big. The one on Christmas Eve is bigger

November’s full moon rises around sunset across India on Kartik Purnima. By one common definition it is a supermoon and by another it just misses. We measured both, and the December full moon that beats it.

CosmosLens EditorsNovember 10, 20266 min read

ISRO’s LVM3 rocket lifting off between two tall lightning towers, flame and a billowing white cloud of exhaust beneath it, under a partly cloudy sky.

ExplorationExplainer

What Chandrayaan-3 found at the Moon’s south pole

Vikram and Pragyan worked for less than two weeks in 2023. The papers have been arriving since. Here is what each instrument measured, what it means, and how sure scientists are, plus our own check on one surprising number.

CosmosLens EditorsNovember 10, 20266 min read