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

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 …

Chandrayaan 2 launch called off due to technical snag

Isro to tell revised launch date later

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

Destination Moon: Half a century of 'a small step'

July 20, 1969 — Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon

Chandrayaan-2 in orbit, now focus on Sept 7 moon landing

The satellite will, in the next 23 days, burn its internal thrusters six times raising its height

Missing gamma ray puzzle solved

The sources of highly energetic cosmic rays were a mystery until recently

ISRO’s new space company gets its first order

American space rideshare company Spaceflight bought payload slot on the first commercial launch of ISRO’s newest rocket, Small Satellite …

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

Watch: What 30 years of Hubble has meant for humanity

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

Fast radio bursts: The mystery deepens

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

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 

Pentagon UFO videos steal limelight from COVID-19

Older, leaked clips of unidentified flying objects now confirmed by US defence department

There’s a splitting dent in Earth's magnetic field; here’s why NASA will track it

The weakening field poses concern for low-Earth orbit satellites: Highly charged particles may cause a glitch in the satellite or permanently …

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

Mars: mounting evidence for subglacial lakes, but could they really host life?

Although the new findings make Mars even more interesting than before, they haven’t advanced its ranking in the list of solar system bodies …

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 …

Fast radio bursts detected in the Milky Way for the first time

The superpower blasts of radio waves, ascribed to sources ranging from alien ships to colliding black holes, are actually generated by dead stars …

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  

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 

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 …

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

5 twinkling galaxies help us uncover the mystery of the Milky Way’s missing matter

But about half of matter in our galaxy is too dark to be detected. It takes the form of cold, dark clumps of gas, in which lies Milky Way’s&…

Europe is recruiting astronauts: Here is what it takes to become one

Recruiting new astronauts is the first step into this new era of human space exploration. Many people may have dreamed of becoming an astronaut …

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 …