Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Calcutta, marked a milestone in 1968 with the launch of its Mobile Science Exhibition on ‘Light and Sight.’ Featuring 24 interactive exhibits that explained everything from how our eyes and cameras work to the magic of colours, reflection, refraction, and lenses, the exhibition ignited curiosity among students across Midnapore. The science bus then carried this spark of learning through Calcutta, Howrah, 24-Parganas, Bankura, Purulia, Birbhum, and Murshid

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025. It is the third known object from outside our solar system to be discovered passing through our celestial neighborhood. Astronomers have categorized this object as interstellar because of the hyperbolic shape of its orbital path. (It does not follow a closed orbital path about the Sun.) When the orb