World eagerly awaits New Horizons’ flyby past Pluto

Scientists are eager to collect data on the dwarf planet’s chemical and atmospheric makeup using the Ralph spectrometer 

NASA camera captures Earth’s entire sunlit side

The image shows the effect of sunlight scattered by air molecules which gives it an overall bluish tint

Mangrove cover getting sparser over Konkan creeks

Report of Bombay Natural History Society says three creeks lost large swathes of mangroves; rare mangrove species at risk

NASA spacecraft detects ‘monster cloud’ near south pole of Saturn’s largest moon

Discovery adds evidence to fact that winter ‘comes in like a lion’ on this moon

Lakes warming faster than oceans and India’s Chilika is no exception: global study

The water temperature of the Chilika Lake is rising at 0.39 degree Celsius per decade, as compared to average oceanic rise of 0.12 degree

Phytoplankton blooms in the Atlantic may originate in autumn rather than spring: NASA

The finding is startling as autumn and winters are a harsh time when growth conditions for phytoplankton are at their worst

Flip side of skyglow

City lights are creating fogs of light pollution as the entire population lives under a sky so bright that the eye cannot fully dark-adapt …

Solar Impulse's biggest legacy will be in your home – not in the skies

Solar Impulse has raised the profile of solar power and people might consider how they can do their bit to use cleaner energy

Only six out of 22 river basins in India have potential to cope with climate change threats: study

Drastic reduction in water use efficiency under driest conditions was observed for some basins, which highlights their inability to cope with …

Cassini dives into Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens probe has enabled scientists analyse the surface and atmosphere of some of Saturn's mysterious moons

US scraps CO2 monitoring programme that doesn’t cost more than a battle tank

NASA's Carbon Monitoring System provides data on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks to help countries evaluate their progress towards …

China became the first country to sprout a seed on the moon

This is the farthest point from the Earth where humans have grown plants. A lone cottonseed sprouted in a canister aboard the Chang’e-4, …

‘Humans are closer to setting up base on Moon’

Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya, an astrobiologist, talks about the future of China’s experiment that resulted in a seed sprouting on the lunar surface

How dust storms are adding to pollution woes of north India

Such storms lead to increase in surface ozone, particulate matter as well as harmful greenhouse gases

Does a year in space make you older or younger?

How space travel and long-duration missions might change the human body, and whether those changes are permanent or reversible once astronauts …

Space Race 2.0: Calendar of space launches in next 15 years

Here's a look at what governments and private firms plan to do in space

Space Race 2.0: Are we ready to stay in outer space?

Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible on other planets

Where did Chandrayaan-1 leave us?

Before India achieves the feat of soft landing on the Moon, let’s look at what the first mission attained and how the second will be different

50th anniversary of Apollo 11: Look at these panoramas from the Moon missions

It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission, when humans stepped on the surface of the moon for the first time. The National Aeronautics …

Odd-even scheme: Before Delhi starts third leg, let’s see how the last two went

While the scheme made impact beyond private vehicular emissions, it saw some counter-intuitive trends too

SpaceX’s new rocket prototype to fly humans to space next year: Elon Musk

Starship rocket MK1 features three Raptor engines — powered by cryogenic methane and liquid oxygen. It is 50 metre tall and weighs about 1,…

Australia's smoke, around the world

Images from Nasa satellites show that smoke from the continent's bushfires has spread into the stratosphere and around the world, Nasa has revealed

How good will be food grown in space

Lettuce grown in space can provide vital nutrients to astronauts who depend on processed food

First-ever digital geological map of moon released by US Geological Survey

It will serve as a blue print for future human lunar missions

Broken cable damages Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico

The Arecibo Observatory is one of the largest radio telescopes in the world. It features prominently in the last part of the 1995 movie GoldenEye