Space Race 2.0: Why go beyond the Earth?

The urge to look towards the sky stems from an intrinsic human curiosity emanating out of not just scientific but also existential queries

The stakes just got higher

Website review: Stargazers' delight

http://www.science.nasa.gov - This National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-maintained website should be of immense interest to space-…

2020 Nobel Prize in physics for work on black holes: An astrophysicist explains trailblazing discoveries

At the singularity, our conceptions of space, time and matter fall apart; resolving this issue is perhaps the biggest open problem in theoretical …

On 3 decades of Pale Blue Dot, Nasa cleans up iconic image

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Nasa published a new version of image taken by Voyager 1 on its 30th anniversary 

Space Race 2.0: Are we ready to stay in outer space?

Habitation designs and technologies are almost ready to make life possible on other planets

In short

Destination Saturn

A lot of effort has gone into programming Cassini, the last of the bigger spaceships produced by NASA. But the mission is unlike others in that …

Geospatial tech can fast-track sustainable development beyond COVID-19: UNESCAP

But re-skilling youth and investments to strengthen their technological skills will be essential  

Astronomers detect biggest collision of ‘impossible’ black holes

The mammoth collision of two black holes formed another one 150 times the mass of the sun

Success of Mission Shakti a culmination of efforts made over two decades

India had been working on weapon systems to intercept space objects to be able to secure its own for a long time

Landing on the red planet

The world's powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth's uninviting and hostile …

Where did Chandrayaan-1 leave us?

Before India achieves the feat of soft landing on the Moon, let’s look at what the first mission attained and how the second will be different

Space Race 2.0: Is this democratisation of space or a high-tech coup?

A handful of billionaires are working hard to make space colonisation a reality. In the process they are reviving a sector that had stagnated for …

Bytes

Bytes

Six space missions to look forward to in 2021

From Artemis 1 to Chandrayaan 3, here are some missions to keep an eye out for 

Green eye in the sky

A voyage into space for a three-dimensional monitoring of the polluted environment

Take heed!

Worldwide increase in temperatures is becoming a major cause for concern

Space camera can help detect skin cancer, says European Space Agency

The camera’s sensor can spot changes that cannot be seen by the human eye, opening up the possibility of multiple applications for the camera

Tracking elles

Bad news from above

A new space-borne instrument helps NASA scientists come to a 'comprehensive' conclusion that the earth is being exposed to increasing amounts of …

Devils in the sky

It is possible to identify non-productive clouds through satellite-transmitted pictures, say Israeli scientists

Taming wild fires

Computer simulations can help prevent devastating wildfires

Bytes