Mars Orbiter Mangalyaan spots satellite Phobos, sends pictures

Phobos along with the Mars' another natural satellite Deimos was discovered in 1877

NASA's Maven reaches Mars

The spacecraft will study the planet’s atmosphere for the next 10 months

Common man's access to space

Small satellites are providing cost-effective and reliable means of space exploration

Miles to go

Despite achievements, India's space programme is still struggling with projects targeting rural India, finds out T V JAYAN

Space Race 2.0: ISRO now stands at the cusp of next change

The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business

Space Race 2.0: Why go beyond the Earth?

The urge to look towards the sky stems from an intrinsic human curiosity emanating out of not just scientific but also existential queries

India launches fifth navigation satellite IRNSS-1E

The launch takes us closer to developing a home-grown global positioning system

India's Mangalyaan is halfway to Mars

Course correction procedure scheduled in April cancelled as the Mars orbiter is already on the right path, says ISRO

Desertification in India: Mining monstrous for Goa, but urbanisation digs a bigger hole

Lack of planning has potential of becoming the biggest degrader of land in Goa

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

Tamil Nadu fisherfolk urge government to prepare for sea level rise

The upcoming plan for coastal zone management should ensure housing and account for the sea level rise, suggest fisherfolk and environmentalists

Indian astronomers get an insight into Crab nebula pulsar

Indian astronomers have obtained the most precise hard X-ray polarisation measurements of Crab pulsar, a star which exploded centuries ago

India launches its first multi-wavelength space observatory ASTROSAT

The satellite’s ability to observe the universe in optical, ultraviolet, low and high energy X-ray regions and detect minute changes sets …

First hurdle in Mars mission

Fourth orbit-raising falls short of target

Cosmic rays a serious threat to manned Mars missions, warn researchers

A highly abnormal and extended lack of solar activity is causing dangerous levels of hazardous radiation to pervade the environment of space

Threatened mangroves

अपने वातावरण को तेजी से खो रहा है मंगल, धूल भरी आंधी है इसके लिए जिम्मेवार: इसरो

केवल मंगल ही नहीं पृथ्वी सहित सौर मंडल के अन्य ग्रह भी लगातार अपने वायुमंडल के बाहरी वातावरण को खो रहे हैं, लेकिन मंगल ...

If we can change our mindsets, let’s make a heaven here… Why go elsewhere?

Wing Commander (retired) Rakesh Sharma recently completed 35 years of being the first Indian to have ever set foot in space. He talked to Down To …

Success of Mission Shakti a culmination of efforts made over two decades

India had been working on weapon systems to intercept space objects to be able to secure its own for a long time

केदारनाथ आपदा के अवशेषों में छिपी जलवायु चक्र की कहानी

वैज्ञानिकों ने वर्ष 2013 की केदारनाथ आपदा के बाद वहां पाए गए वनस्पति के अवशेषों के अध्ययन से भारतीय मानसून की आठ हजार साल ...

Floods in Uttarakhand explained

The National Remote Sensing Centre under ISRO has released some interesting satellite images that could possibly explain the devastation in …

Mars orbiter enters sun's sphere of influence

ISRO plans four manoeuvres to ensure satellite stays on course

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

India launches fourth navigation satellite

ISRO blasts off the 1,425-kg rocket amidst loud cheers; satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit

New method developed to map and monitor glacial lakes

The Object-Based Image Analysis method’s advantage is that it can help map even a glacial pond as small as 100 square metres with high precision