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

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

World Earth Day: Why the planet is worth saving

On World Earth Day, six stunning photos from NASA show the beauty of our unique planet and warns us of the threat from imminent climate change

China became the first country to sprout a seed on the moon

This is the farthest point from the Earth where humans have grown plants. A lone cottonseed sprouted in a canister aboard the Chang’e-4, …

NASA's Juno arrives at Jupiter to lift cloudy veil

The Juno mission could help reveal how Jupiter formed, whether it has a rocky core and whether it influenced life on earth

Flip side of skyglow

City lights are creating fogs of light pollution as the entire population lives under a sky so bright that the eye cannot fully dark-adapt …

Phytoplankton blooms in the Atlantic may originate in autumn rather than spring: NASA

The finding is startling as autumn and winters are a harsh time when growth conditions for phytoplankton are at their worst

NASA camera captures Earth’s entire sunlit side

The image shows the effect of sunlight scattered by air molecules which gives it an overall bluish tint

चंद्रमा और बुध ग्रह पर उम्मीद से अधिक हो सकता है बर्फ और पानी

जर्नल नेचर जियोसाइंस में प्रकाशित अध्ययन के अनुसार, चंद्रमा और बुध दोनों ध्रुवों के पास गड्ढों में बर्फ जमा होने की संभावना है।

नासा से ताजा तस्वीरें : दिखाई पड़ी मंगल की शुष्क झील !

मंगल ग्रह पर जीवन के अवशेष खोजतीं अमेरिकी अतंरिक्ष एजेंसी नासा के क्यूरोसिटी रोवर की ताजा तस्वीरें।  

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

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

Stubble burning down in Punjab, Haryana, UP since 2016: NASA maps

Data from the agency shows that all three states have made progress in reducing stubble burning between 2016 and 2019

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 

नासा ने की पुष्टि, अनुमान से भी तेज हो रहा ब्रह्मांड का फैलाव

नासा के वैज्ञानिकों की खोज के मुताबिक ब्रह्मांड का विस्तार अनुमान से करीब 9 फीसदी ज्यादा तेज गति से हो रहा है। 

Water vapour discovered on potentially ‘habitable’ planet

Using Hubble Space Telescope, scientists also detected the presence of hydrogen and helium in K2-18b's atmosphere

50th anniversary of Apollo 11: Look at these panoramas from the Moon missions

It’s the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 mission, when humans stepped on the surface of the moon for the first time. The National Aeronautics …

‘Humans are closer to setting up base on Moon’

Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya, an astrobiologist, talks about the future of China’s experiment that resulted in a seed sprouting on the lunar surface

US scraps CO2 monitoring programme that doesn’t cost more than a battle tank

NASA's Carbon Monitoring System provides data on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon stocks to help countries evaluate their progress towards …

2016 experiences record-breaking heat for nine consecutive months

12 consecutive months from October 2015 to September 2016 have set new monthly high-temperature records

NASA finds evidence of water on Mars

If water exists now, life too could be found on the planet

ओजोन छिद्र के आकार में रिकॉर्ड कमी, नासा ने जारी किए आंकड़े

खोज के तीन दशक बाद अंटार्कटिका के ऊपर ओजोन छिद्र का आकार सबसे कम रिकॉर्ड किया गया है, वैज्ञानिकों ने इस पर खुशी जाहिर की ...

Life on Jupiter’s moon Europa? Discovery of table salt on the surface boosts hopes

Scientists believe that hydrothermal circulation within its ocean, possibly driven by hydrothermal vents might naturally enrich the ocean in …