NET WORK

Breaking ice

The discovery of water on the Moon means little unless it can be used. Scientists are using all their skills to figure out how

Firepower

Space. The final frontier. It is here that science is seeking ways to make a better automobile engine

Music from Mars

Luna's law

The discovery of water will make it possible to set up a colony on the Moon. But will there be a repeat of the East India Company?

NETWORK

Mir's fate sealed

Gel travel

Scientists fly rockets with toothpaste-like jelly

Over before we knew it

Lenoid meteor shower, the biggest astronomical non-event of 1998, caused hardly any damage to orbiting satellites

The Mir conundrum

In interstellar space

Destination moon

Speed feat

Merry Christmas

Edusat will educate

But how?

Planet X

Incorrect data spurred on the discovery of Pluto

Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity

The telescope has been the eyes of astrinomers above the Earth's atmosphere

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

IRS exports data to USA

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

Launch by a bomber

Rockets go-ahead