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Jakarta abandons Mir

A reversal of time!

Statistical physics provides an explanation to dark matter and how time could run backwards

India part of Galileo

Scientific gains at EU-India summit, no trade progress

It's an old, old planet

It's called outreach

Indian science is in Space, but not its villages

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

Sounds and vibrations are important, they tell us about the medium they’re travelling through

Heat comes in from the cold

The unlit part of the crescent moon can help calculate Earth's temperature and measure greenhouse warming

Life on Mars? NASA's Curiosity helps discover traces of ancient ocean

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars, signifying a higher potential for life on …

NASA releases first pieces of the multispectral maps of Mars

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been mapping minerals on the red Planet for the last 16 years with the help of CRISM

Fast radio bursts: The mystery deepens

Research by Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment and Fast Radio Burst Project finds repeated pattern to FRBs

Countdown to self-reliance

Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites

A close encounter with Jupiter's secrets

Spacecraft Ulysses passed the largest planet in the solar system and picked up a rich haul of information before heading for the sun on its …

New stars on the horizon

An exciting new discovery might lead to a confirmation of the presence of the farthest known galaxy

Less fuel, more fire

A new research, currently in an experimental stage, could be the propelling force behind the future rocket

Spaceage goes to sea

Launch sites based at sea will offer a safer and cost-effective way for the flourishing satellite industry

The mysterious planets

Tadpole like objects in the Helix nebula, detected by the Hubble telescope, suggest the presence ofhitherto unseen objects in the universe

Rocky rendezvous

The enigma behind the world. of asteroids could be unravelled once and for all with NASAs recent launch of a search probe

Soaring greener heights

Surrey University in the UK, specialising in satellite engineering, is developing a hybrid rocket motor that uses liquid and solid fuel, both of …

Spatial success

With the latest launch of another remote sensing satellite, Indian space scientists aim to carve out a niche in the world market for satellite …

Rings and wings

Information gathered by the spacecraft Cassini may solve many riddles about the next-most interesting planet after Mars

On borrowed time

The Hubble telescope is slowly wearing out and efforts to repair it are on, alongwith preparations for its replacement

Distance dilemma

Are quasars near or far? Doubts appear as the astronomical calculator, red shift, is challenged

Space science, biology and politics

NASA hopes to solve its resource crunch by putting forward a case that uses space science for explaining the origins of life

Light show

A meteor shower will light up the sky like a Christmas tree. But electronic satellites may not enjoy it