Voyager at 45: What’s aboard the spacecrafts & the photos they took

Simply Put: NASA to reset to planetary defence programme

First life to sprout on the Moon is already dead

A cotton seed that germinated on the Moon could not survive the long lunar night

ISRO successfully test-fires vital engine; Mars orbiter on final lap

Why flawless functioning of the LAM engine was pivotal to ISRO’s Martian Odyssey

Space ballet

Space wonder

Greenland ice melts

Students design plan to live with climate change in 50 years

Stars die silently sometimes

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid — photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

Double Asteroid Redirection Test is meant to test one potential approach that could prevent an asteroid from colliding with Earth.

Mars early water may be trapped in its crust: Scientists

The new findings challenge the prevalent theory that water from the Red Planet escaped into space

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

10 things to know about NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter

With the Juno spacecraft successfully in place in the orbit of the largest planet of our solar system, we bring you quick facts about the …

Mercury transit helps scientists study the planet

Scientists attempted to understand the processes of sodium atoms being released into Mercury’s atmosphere

‘Blue marble’: How half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth

 A photo taken by NASA in December 1972 has become an icon of the global environmental movement

Can Europa support life? Scientists estimate thickness of Jupiter moon’s ice shell to help figure it out

Europa’s icy crust found to be at least 20 kilometres thick

Pattern in radio waves: First contact, is it?

The periodic radio waves hitting Earth from a neighbouring galaxy are unlikely to be from aliens, but the possibility cannot be ruled out

India to get real time forest fire alert system

Forest Survey of India's new programme also tracks big fire incident

NASA goofs up

Photo>> Everest • US/Nepal

Quest for life

Will any of the 716 planets discovered outside the solar system be habitable?

Trapping solar energy in space

Can solar power ever become a major source of energy?

Solar wings

The world's first solar-powered aircraft completes its test flight successfully

Killer food

How we captured first image of the supermassive black hole at centre of the Milky Way

The team observed Sagittarius A* on multiple nights, collecting data for many hours in a row

Climate change in Third Pole: As glaciers melt, two lakes grow larger; NASA releases images

The two lakes — Chibzhang Co and Dorsoidong Co — in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region grew larger between October 1987 and 2021&…