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 …

Clash of the cyberworlds

In an increasingly digital world, the issue of Internet freedom and governance has become hugely contested. Censorship and denial of access occur …

Bringing Mars rocks back to Earth – Perseverance Rover lands on Feb. 18, a lead scientist explains the tech and goals

Scientists are looking for evidence of past life, either direct chemical or organic signs in the composition and the chemistry of rocks, or …

Encounter Jovis Pater

A solar system within a solar system? Seems like a riddle, but if one planet can hold 1,000 earths, is 318 times as massive and 1,400 times more …

Meet Perseverance, NASA's new Mars rover

‘Perseverance’ will land on Mars’ Jerezo crater a little after 3.40 pm EST on February 18, 2021

World eagerly awaits New Horizons’ flyby past Pluto

Scientists are eager to collect data on the dwarf planet’s chemical and atmospheric makeup using the Ralph spectrometer 

Data on plant ‘sweat’ might help predict wildfire severity

NASA studies data from space station instrument; Water-stressed plants help identify areas with greater fire risk

‘Potentially hazardous’ space rock to fly past Earth on June 24

Named 441987 (2010 NY65), the rock has a diameter of 130 to 300 metres and will pass the Earth at a speed of more than 45,000 kilometres per …

Big is out, small is in

A financially squeezed NASA has been forced to look for cheaper ways to explore the solar system

Fielding robots

As part of an effort to promote nasa 's technology, US researchers have developed two new automated agricultural machines

Comfort above the clouds

Three new inventions by nasa are sure to make life a little easier in space

Breaking ice

The discovery of water on the Moon means little unless it can be used. Scientists are using all their skills to figure out how

Voyager 2 has lost track of Earth. Only one antenna in the world can help it ‘phone home’

NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Station 43 is the only antenna in the world that can communicate directly with both Voyagers

NASA calls for more astronauts for its Artemis programme

The Artemis programme is a stepping stone for NASA’s “next giant leap”: To send astronauts to Mars

Surprise! India and China are greening faster than rest of the world

China and India — the two economic powerhouses of Asia — are contributing significantly to the greening of the …

NASA’s TESS confirms 3 new exoplanets

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), in its search for extra-terrestrial life, recently confirmed the their existence

How does India look from space at night? NASA has captured beautiful images

Satellite images of Earth at night have always triggered curiosity among people and they are an important tool for environmental research projects

Captain Cernan leaves planet forever, 44 years after his final walk on moon

Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17, the final manned lunar landing

Stars of wonder

Stargazers feast their ey'es on what could be the event of the century - star births - as the Hubble photographs the phenomenon

Rocked!

On July 4, 1997, planet Mars will see robots crawling about, seeking more evidence of life there, egged on by the extraordinary find of 'life' in …

Mission: Planet Earth

NASA scientists have developed a new space-based imager with very high resolution which will help foresters, farmers and geologists, and lay the …

Celestial guest

Hale-Bopp, the brightest comet of this century, promises to shed new light on the birth of the universe

How does Mars sound? First audio clip from the Red Planet gives an idea

Any note we hear on Earth would sound fainter and more sombre on Mars, observed the Perseverance rover

Life on Mars? NASA's Curiosity helps discover traces of ancient ocean

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars, signifying a higher potential for life on …

Bittersweet feeling as Cassini mission embarks on its ‘grand finale’ ahead of death plunge

One of the most successful space exploration missions of all time still has a lot left to uncover