The planet up close

US scientists use radar to capture every single detail of the Earth's topography

NASA-funded study brings together researchers from across the world to unravel mysteries of tropical forests

Long-term study to explore biodiversity, gas exchanges and bio-geoscience cycles on a pan-tropical scale, train future researchers

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

New space telescope to create a 3D X-ray map of Universe

The Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma telescope aims to detect up to 3 mn supermassive black holes — many of which will be new to science — and …

Married in space

The recent Atlantis-Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars

The light show

A satellite tracks outbound electrons from the Earth's poles to understand the northern lights

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx will land on an asteroid to bring home rocks and dust – if it can avoid Mt. Doom

However, nothing ventured, nothing gained

US-Africa Leadership Summit: Nigeria & Rwanda become first African signatories of Artemis Accords on space collaboration 

US-Africa space partnership will help address challenges like climate change, biodiversity & global food crises  

ESA’s JUICE mission will soon start unlocking the secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons

Artemis: Why it may be the last mission for NASA astronauts

Within the next few decades, robotic exploration of Mars could be almost entirely autonomous

Hottest May on Earth was a cooler one for India

Almost all the countries of the world witnessed a hotter than normal May month this year but India stood out as an exception

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Two years ago, NASA launched the most advanced telescope that has been created so far

Saturn, as seen by Cassini

Mars rover finds water

Images sent by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show dark streaks up to four metres wide running down the sides of some slopes on the …

We've found a new family of stars in the Milky Way that could help us work out how galaxies formed

A new discovery can help determine where all the stars in the universe's galaxies actually come from

Juno's closest flyby past Jupiter on Saturday

There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime mission which will end in February 2018

US embraces nuclear reactors to power spacecrafts

Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National …

NASA maps trace causes of global mangrove habitat loss

While overall mangrove habitat loss declined between 2000 and 2016, losses from natural causes such as erosion and extreme weather …

Five Earth-like planets discovered by NASA

How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes

Increasing availability of open-access data from government satellites have made it possible for everyone to gain insight into …

Antarctic ozone hole now larger, thinner & may take longer to recover. Mesosphere has a role to play: Study

Meteorological conditions could have largely driven fluctuations in the size of the Antarctic ozone hole

A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight

Curiosity's Mars odyssey

Trouble for SOHO

In Court