The halo is hotter than the star
An astrophysicist tries to explain why, in violation of the laws of thermodynamics, the corona is hotter than the Sun.
2008 A lunar odyssey
From a pariah after Pokhran II to scientific self esteem, India raced its way to the moon. Archita Bhatta tracked the nation's voyage to find …
Wormholes may be lurking in the universe — and new studies are proposing ways of finding them
Nature may have found a way to create wormholes to keep the universe from expanding
First life to sprout on the Moon is already dead
A cotton seed that germinated on the Moon could not survive the long lunar night
Space ballet
Listen and learn
Greenland ice melts
A bridge too far-fetched
Wholesome find
Ozone hole over Antarctica is smaller in size this year due to atmospheric conditions
Is there anybody out there?
An amino acid's discovery in deep space raises hope of finding life forms there
Techno rainbird
NASA develops computer model to track origins of rain
More space for soyabeans
A recent find raises hope for further space invasion
Cutting-edge tech at low cost behind India’s first private rocket
Down To Earth catches up with Pawan Kr Chandana, co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace, whose Vikram-S became the first privately made rocket to …
Japan’s space probe first to capture material beneath asteroid surface
Hayabusa2 made its first touchdown on Ryugu — a kilometre-wide asteriod, with a relatively dark surface and almost zero gravity — in …
India’s Chandrayaan-2 will facilitate an American’s return to the moon
Starting July 15, both India and the US will work out hectic lunar activities for the next five years
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 …
Milky Way to collide with another galaxy
UK researchers find that this will happen in the next two billion years and will send our solar system hurtling into space
Scientist who called mysterious Oumuamua object alien probe explains why
Abraham Loeb, one of the Harvard scientists who came up with this theory, talks about this extraordinary conclusion and the media frenzy it generated
Scientists discover a new source of neutrinos in space – opening up another window into the universe
A giant detector at the South Pole has discovered that a “blazar”, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its centre, also …
10 things to know about NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter
With the Juno spacecraft successfully in place in the orbit of the largest planet of our solar system, we bring you quick facts about the …
Russia's role raises hopes and fears
With Russia participating in the first unified space station project, international cooperation reaches new heights. But there are also doubts …
The back up man
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How much life has ever existed on Earth?
A new study has looked at big questions like how much life will ever exist on Earth
2023 in a blink: DTE’s reportage on global scientific research this year
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2023
Pentagon report says UFOs can't be explained, and this admission is a big deal
The report does not, as many were hoping, conclude UFOs are alien spacecraft.