Voyager 2 becomes 2nd spacecraft to cross heliosphere

Voyager 1 achieved the milestone in 2012

African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries

South Africa also has well-established infrastructure at its astronomical sites, which are protected by legislation

Marsquakes: InSight lander shows active faults in the planet’s crust

It successfully managed to use a robot arm to place a seismometer on ground clear of landing platform, then cover it with a wind & thermal shield

Do you know what Arrokoth is?

This is the official name of a world humanity would be proud of

Rakesh Sharma on space exploration and technology

Wing Commander (retired) Rakesh Sharma recently completed 35 years of being the first Indian to have ever set foot in space. He talked to Down To …

Water, water, everywhere—where to drink in the solar system

Ice is everywhere in the solar system and there may even be liquid water beneath the surface of a number of planets. But could we ever get to it?

Why the Deep Space Atomic Clock is key for future space exploration

In its final form, the Deep Space Atomic Clock will be suitable for operations in the solar system well beyond Earth orbit

Rare radioactive decay captured by dark matter detector

This detection is an important step towards knowing the constituents of dark matter, which makes up 27 per cent of the Universe

AstroSat peers into the heart of Jellyfish galaxy

According to the authors, this galaxy is unique as it provides direct evidence of internal and external mechanisms at work to halt the formation …

Human trials on Earth are the key to how we will survive on Mars

What's the best way to find out how people will cope with the journey to Mars and life on another planet? Lock a test crew up for a year in a …

Outer space: Rwanda & Nigeria sign an accord for more responsible exploration — why this matters

It also enables the countries to participate in events where decisions on outer space are made

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 …

Saturn gets crown back for most moons in solar system

Jupiter has once again ceded the title of “most known moons” to Saturn, after 62 new Saturnians moons were discovered, taking the grand total …

AstroSat discovers new group of stars in globular cluster NGC 2808

The team was able to identify over 2,000 individual stars in images taken through various ultraviolet filters

Has ISRO found its humanoid for space travel?

If India's space agency has a bot ready, why are its scientists scouting for another

Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: What they found

MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes that uses radio signals from space to study the evolution of the universe

NASA gets ready to say farewell to InSight spacecraft on Mars

Lander losing power after 4 years on the Red Planet as dust gathers over solar panels

Food race: These space seeds can help grow climate-resilient crops

This is the first feasibility study by global agencies to determine the effect of cosmic radiation, microgravity and extreme

Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System

Venus is far from the only world beyond Earth to exhibit signs of volcanic activity

NASA offers insight on supernova that may have been alluded to in ‘Hamlet’

450-year-old supernova’s shockwave still apparent; was visible to humans on Earth in 1572  

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune helps detect atomic hydrogen from far-away galaxy

Finding opens up exciting new possibilities for probing the cosmic evolution of neutral gas with low-frequency radio telescopes

Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

Jupiter's icy moons, asteroid exploration on the cards

If we can change our mindsets, let’s make a heaven here… Why go elsewhere?

Wing Commander (retired) Rakesh Sharma recently completed 35 years of being the first Indian to have ever set foot in space. He talked to Down To …

Does a year in space make you older or younger?

How space travel and long-duration missions might change the human body, and whether those changes are permanent or reversible once astronauts …

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 …