‘5G will better connect rural areas’

India plans to begin 5G trials by 2020, but experts and industry stand at odds over its impact on human health and environment. The fifth …

Space probe LISA Pathfinder lifts off

LISA Pathfinder will hunt for gravitational waves which were first proposed by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity

ExoMars mission delayed, rover will now take off in 2022

European Space Agency cited software problems with the spacecraft as a reason for the delay

NASA to crash into asteroid, ESA to follow up

European Space Agency teams up with NASA to test planetary defence programme

Red Planet's river saga

Discovered: More than 300,000 new galaxies

200 astronomers from 18 countries analyse results of low frequency telescope in radio survey of northern hemisphere

European Space Agency satellite uses gravity map to track ocean currents

The map is of great use for ocean monitoring and forecasting systems

Many mysteries of solar system may be solved as Rosetta probe lands on comet

Scientists have been trying to understand the role played by comets in our evolution

New physics needed to explain Universe’s expansion rate: NASA

Scientists are certain about veracity of a long-standing discrepancy in the value of the rate of expansion known as Hubble Constant

Comets may have brought key chemicals to Earth to kick-start life

Philae Lander sends rich data from Comet 67p before falling asleep

Legalise sand mining in Mysore, MP tells government

The demand was made at a meeting of the environment ministry to discuss issues related to the protection of the Western Ghats

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 30, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Record decline in ice sheets in Antarctic and Greenland

Digital maps created with satelllite data show the combined volume of ice loss in Greenland and west Antarctic is 500 km3

Science & Technology - Briefs

Curb on mining in Western Ghats

MoEF accepts Kasturirangan report; will declare one-third of the range ecologically sensitive