How did Uranus end up on its side? We've been finding out
Unlike all the other planets, which spin roughly upright with their spin axes at close to right angles to their orbits around the sun, Uranus is …
Ice-free Arctic this summer: a possibility signalling drastic climate change
Melting of Arctic ice is having a cascading effect on tundra animals, triggering extreme weather conditions and changing landscape pattern
California drought: valleys sinking faster than ‘ever before’
Increased subsidence in fifth consecutive year of drought can damage surface and underground infrastructure
NASA Mars rover clicks Wdowiak Ridge
Scientists want to figure out why the ridge is located off the main crest line of Endeavour Crater and how it fits into the geological story of …
May of 2014 warmest May in recorded history
Global average surface temperature in the months of March, April, and May was also the highest since 1891
Has comet ISON survived sun’s heat?
If the comet still exists, people on the Earth could witness a spectacular show in the night sky in December
Landing on the red planet
The world's powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth's uninviting and hostile …
NASA’s new tool makes it possible to see future sea level rise
The tool makes it possible to access details based on projections of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report released August 9
Researchers study microbial interactions in International Space Station
IIT Madras, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab conduct study to help devise strategies for disinfection of space stations
James Webb gets a close look at the Red Planet for the first time
Perseverance rover collects key rock samples, while Mars shows signatures of water, carbon dioxide in atmosphere
Artemis set to take off soon: 5 things you need to know about this NASA mission
The next giant leap for mankind not alone; Joint plans by Russia-China for research station, India's Chandrayaan has lunar …
2021 sixth warmest year since 1880
The January-December 2021 average global surface temperature was the sixth highest since global records began in 1880
NASA confirms water on moon’s sunlit surface: What does it mean for lunar science
Water distributed across surface of the moon; can help understand how the solar system evolved
In deep water: Emissions can add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise, study finds
Greenland and Antarctica’s ice sheets could together contribute to this 38-cm rise — beyond the amount that has been projected …
Space Race 2.0: Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?
A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for …
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
Cassini dives into Saturn
The Cassini-Huygens probe has enabled scientists analyse the surface and atmosphere of some of Saturn's mysterious moons
A solar eclipse like this will not happen in 19 years
While a total eclipse was visible from the Faroe Islands and the Svalbard Islands, regions of Europe, northern Africa and northern Asia was …
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
Photos: James Webb reveals intricate networks of gas, dust in nearby galaxies
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas and dust in nearby galaxies with …
US Senate not ready to accept that climate change is caused by human activity
US President Barack Obama has called global warming one of the greatest threats to future generations
Counting north India’s stubble fires: Stronger data science needed to study winter smog
Severe smog in north India is a result of an evil alignment of many factors. Whether those factors co-conspire this year, remains to be seen
Counting north India’s stubble fires: How do NASA satellites capture them
Overall, it is safe to assume that even if satellite images do not show a fire, it does not necessarily mean that nothing is burning on the ground
Air pollution mission: NASA, Italian space agency to study 11 most populated cities globally, including Delhi
MAIA mission to use data from Earth observation satellite to help scientists find correlations between air pollution and health problems
Aerosol levels at 20-year-low in north India: NASA satellite data
Scientists compare aerosol optical depth measurements over the country between March 31 to April 5 for five years