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
Light information
Optic fibres enable transmission of information at the speed of light and without any interference
Space opera
After years of pranged possibilities and piggyback rides, India has attained independent satellite launch capability
Collision in space
At least 2 Indian planetaria are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime ogle at Jupiter as it is strafed by a comet shower
In search of gravitational waves
Two projects are under way to detect an elusive phenomenon that are thought to be produced by violent events in outer space
Spin-off to space
The billion-dollar Star Wars programme lies abandoned, but the technology will now be used to combat asteroids
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 …
From Russia with love
Exchange of technology between Russia and the West is opening up new horizons in the aerospace industry
Spy in the sky
A few hundred dollars is all you need to "borrow" the services of world's first commercial spy satellite
Heat-tolerant bacteria that survived meteorite impact
The meteorite was made of a highly dense material and weighed 2.26 kilogrammes
Beaming onto children
Into space market
No small matter
A persevering physicist is well an his way to uncovering the enigma of antimatter
Shaking hands in air
Expensive explorer
Spaced out
MONEYMAKERS
Imaging success
CHINA
Portrait of a galaxy
Breakaway!
Water, water everywhere
Water has been detected in the upper atmospheres of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune