Celestial springs

Face off ?

Celestial cousins

Ambitious project

New heavenly bodies

Awash with possibilities

People are complaining about Mercury in retrograde. But what does it actually mean?

Humans found out retrograde motion was an optical illusion 500 years ago. However, the pseudoscientific practice of astrology continues to …

Venus might have microbial life in its atmosphere, study shows

Phosphine gas, made up of hydrogen and phosphorus, hass been found in the planet’s clouds, a marker for the existence of microbes that can …

It's all in the planets

ASTROLOGY IN PREDICTING WEATHER AND EARTHQUAKES B V Raman Publisher: UBSPD Publishers, New Delhi Price: Rs 35

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 …

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

Ice ice baby

Satellite images revealing vast quantities of ice on Mars rekindle hopes about life existing on the planet

Going round and round

Earth is getting wider near the equator

Fresh twist in Moon’s genesis; lunar body likely formed within hours after collision

Moon’s composition is similar to Earth and not Mars or other objects in the solar system

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

Wormholes may be lurking in the universe — and new studies are proposing ways of finding them

Nature may have found a way to create wormholes to keep the universe from expanding

More space for soyabeans

A recent find raises hope for further space invasion

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

How looking into space can help our understanding of climate change on Earth

Atmospheric changes on exoplanets could hold clues to our own environmental problems

Classroom: The history of future

The history of future

Quest for life

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

India to witness ‘Ring of Fire’ eclipse on June 21

The next solar eclipse, which will be a partial solar eclipse, will take place on October 25, 2022

Life beyond Earth

Book>> Five Hundred Billion Years Of Solitude • by Lee Billings • Penguin • Rs 799