📃 New paper! Dr Divita Saraogi undertook the very tricky study of X-ray polarization properties of powerful cosmic explosions called Gamma-ray bursts 💥. To do this, she had to invent an entirely new technique to localize them on the sky! rdcu.be/etET8 IIT Bombay

Heading to IIT Kharagpur🇮🇳 to showcase how we built and demonstrated a X-ray Compton Imager: a project supported by the IIT Bombay-ISRO Space Technology Cell. Work done jointly with Siddharth Tallur at IITB, PRL Ahmedabad and Shriharsh Tendulkar at TIFR .

Over the last 2 years, all Indian astronomers got together to define the focus areas and vision for Indian astro for the next 15 years. I had the privilege of leading the Time Domain vision effort jointly with Kuntal Misra. See accepted paper at rdcu.be/eucTl

Lightning - very common, not fully understood! Lightning also emits gamma rays which can be detected from space - and India's proposed Daksha Space Mission will be the best detector ever built for understanding these "Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes"! ISRO DSTIndia Anusandhan National Research Foundation IIT Bombay

Today at IISER Pune : a conference to celebrate the 100th birthday of E V Chitnis, one of the founding members of ISRO ! I have the pleasure of being a speaker. Did you know, he co-authored the first Indian paper on the study of an X-ray source with a sounding rocket?

An astronomical instrumentation position available at IIT Indore - if interested, apply at iiti.ac.in/recruitments/j…

There's a new doctor in town: Congratulations Dr. Gaurav Waratkar! He studied relativistic transients with ISRO AstroSat, worked on LIGO & Daksha Space Mission —with 30 refereed papers and over 300 GCNs! Next week he heads to Caltech Astro Outreach Caltech to build more space telescopes!

National Space Day 2025: Prof. Mayuri Rao from Raman Research Institute giving a talk IIT Bombay about Astrophysics, Cosmology and Space Telescopes! DSTIndia ISRO Abhay Karandikar

IIT Bombay students have taken data from India's Chandrayaan-2 mission to study the Moon's surface in greater detail. Their work focuses on understanding lunar chemistry, offering fresh insights into the minerals present on the Moon. indiatoday.in/education-toda…

India’s next space scientists! IIT Bombay students started with a competition, and brought out amazing science results from from ISRO Chandrayaan-2 data! Check out the amazing new maps of elemental line ratios on the moon: sites.google.com/view/star-iitb…

Super proud of iitb students Varun Bhalerao IIT Bombay ISRO CLASS finally makes it and maps the whole Moon like never before. star-iitb.in/research/chand…

Our students can accomplish amazing things! Starting from a competition that IIT Bombay won, now a detailed map of lunar geochemistry has been submitted to an international journal with some help from Rahul, me, and a few ISRO URSC colleagues! Maps at star-iitb.in/research/chand…

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/ii… The Times Of India covers the ambitious Indian proposed Daksha Space Mission mission to build the world's most sensitive high energy space telescopes! IIT Bombay PRL Ahmedabad Raman Research Institute IUCAA Scipop ISRO

IIT Bombay-led 'Daksha' mission aims to build satellites, most powerful telescopes and enter deep space race Varun Bhalerao Prof. Varun Bhalerao, a rocket scientist in the physics department at IIT Bombay, says the vision of 'Daksha' is to develop and launch a pair of satellites

ISRO invites proposals from the Indian scientific community for its Venus Announcement of Opportunity (AO). Propose novel research using archival data to support the upcoming Venus Orbiter Mission. Deadline: Nov 15, 2025.   For details and updates, visit:

Celebrating a decade of AstroSat: India’s first observatory dedicated for astronomy On this day 10 years ago, #AstroSat 🛰️✨, India’s first multi wavelength astronomy observatory was launched by ISRO. From black holes to neutron stars, from the nearest star Proxima Centauri to

"Our goal is to succeed on the very first attempt". ISRO Chairman V.Narayanan shared India's focused vision for the future of space at #IAC2025 🌏🚀

Glad to be deputed by PMO India and ISRO as a part of the Indian delegation to IAC 2025 with senior ISRO and IN-SPACe officials! The opening ceremony featured a special message from International Space Station! IIT Bombay

Congestion and pollution in Earth orbit is quickly getting worse. We need to be able to quantify how our behaviour will impact the orbital environment in the future... esa.int/Space_Safety/S…

We are pleased to announce that the IITB Mars Rover Team has secured second place in the European Rover Challenge – Remote Formula, among 20+ participating international teams. Our Autonomous & Software subdivision developed an autonomous exploration and navigation framework