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

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

लॉकडाउन के चलते साफ हुई उत्तर भारत में हवा, 20 सालों में पहली बार एयरोसोल में इतनी कमी

उत्तर भारत में एयरोसोल का स्तर पिछले 20 सालों के सबसे न्यूनतम स्तर पर आ गया है। जिसके पीछे लॉकडाउन एक बड़ी वजह है

How good will be food grown in space

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

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

नासा ने की पुष्टि, अनुमान से भी तेज हो रहा ब्रह्मांड का फैलाव

नासा के वैज्ञानिकों की खोज के मुताबिक ब्रह्मांड का विस्तार अनुमान से करीब 9 फीसदी ज्यादा तेज गति से हो रहा है। 

नासा ने कहा, बढ़ते तापमान के बावजूद तेजी से नहीं पिघलेगी अंटार्कटिका की बर्फ

इससे पहले वैज्ञानिकों ने कहा था कि अगले 500 वर्षों में अंटार्कटिका की बर्फ और ग्लेशियर तेजी से पिघलेगी। अब नासा ने जलवायु माडल ...

पंजाब-हरियाणा : जारी है फसल अवशेषों का जलाना, किसान खुद बन रहा वायु प्रदूषण का शिकार

पराली जलाने से होने वाले प्रदूषण की वजह से हंगामा दिल्ली-एनसीआर में होता है, लेकिन इस प्रदूषण की सबसे ज्यादा मार उन्हीं किसानों पर ...

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,…

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

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 …

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

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

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

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 …

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

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

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 …

Cassini dives into Saturn

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

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 …

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

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 …

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

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

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