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Universe has 70 sextillion stars
Meet the next four people headed to the Moon
Christina Hammock Koch, Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen are highly experienced, with three of …
Africa has ambitious goals for 2063: plans for outer space hold the key to success
The outer space programme seeks to enable Africa to obtain maximum benefits from space science, technology and applications
James Webb Space Telescope: How our launch of world’s most complex observatory will rest on a nail-biting knife edge
If all goes well, humanity will have a new eye on the cosmos, with capabilities that far surpass anything that has gone before
Want to visit Mars? Zebrafish may help
Queen’s University researchers observed zebrafish in a state of induced torpor; they believe such a state could protect humans during …
SETI: New signal excites alien hunters. Here’s how we could find out if it’s real
A mysterious radio signal seemingly coming from the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, has generated a flood of excitement among …
Pentagon UFO videos steal limelight from COVID-19
Older, leaked clips of unidentified flying objects now confirmed by US defence department
Skygazers, it’s time for a super snow moon tonight
Today’s moon will be the biggest and brightest in 2019 as it will be the closest to Earth’s orbit
Why does India plan to send humanoids to space?
ISRO wants to send humanoids because it wants to test its space module before they are used by humans. A humanoid with the necessary sensors …
NASA's Insight mission lands on Mars
After a 300-million-mile journey from Earth over nearly seven months, NASA's InSight spacecraft landed successfully on the surface of Mars on Monday.
We've found a new family of stars in the Milky Way that could help us work out how galaxies formed
A new discovery can help determine where all the stars in the universe's galaxies actually come from
`Student satellites are more than lab experiments'
D V A Raghava Murthy, director, Earth Observations Systems, was the project director of Small Satellite Projects at ISRO Satellite Centre between …
The super cars are coming
With aerospace technologies set to revolutionise engine and body design, today's cars could become as obsolete as dinosaurs.
A star spender with clipped wings
The ambitious Indian space programme, despite occasional setbacks, has had its share of success. A backgrounder to the programme which is very …
Tapping into the source
These are the days of frenetic crossborder data networking. Electronic cilia have crawled into almost every nook in the world where information …
Ice ice baby
Satellite images revealing vast quantities of ice on Mars rekindle hopes about life existing on the planet
Kalpana Chawla—a mission becomes impossible
In all the media hype, the legacy left behind by the Columbia (STS-107) crew was almost forgotten–a wealth of information gathered from …
US embraces nuclear reactors to power spacecrafts
Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National …
Continued cooperation
Rocket row will delay space plan
Economy launch for satellites
A cost-effective motor to launch satellites is being developed in the US