Has ISRO found its humanoid for space travel?

If India's space agency has a bot ready, why are its scientists scouting for another

ISRO's PSLV-C42 launches 2 foreign satellites

Both satellites belong to Surrey Satellite Technology Limited, UK, which has a contract with ISRO

Earth 2.0: NASA finds planet's 'cousin' that could be supporting life

It would, however, take decades to reach the planet to know more about it

Common man's access to space

Small satellites are providing cost-effective and reliable means of space exploration

Satellite mapping of flora hotspots

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Water mark

Can Cassini do it?

The technical wizardry that has gone into programming the probe will be put to the test in the most crucial post-launch event -- placing Cassini …

Miles to go

Despite achievements, India's space programme is still struggling with projects targeting rural India, finds out T V JAYAN

Space Race 2.0: ISRO now stands at the cusp of next change

The next step involves sending humans to space and responding to the changing dynamics of global space business

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-…

Astronomers used machine learning to mine data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope: What they found

MeerKAT is an array of 64 large antenna dishes that uses radio signals from space to study the evolution of the universe

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 …

Food race: These space seeds can help grow climate-resilient crops

This is the first feasibility study by global agencies to determine the effect of cosmic radiation, microgravity and extreme

Four volcanic hotspots in the Solar System

Venus is far from the only world beyond Earth to exhibit signs of volcanic activity

NASA offers insight on supernova that may have been alluded to in ‘Hamlet’

450-year-old supernova’s shockwave still apparent; was visible to humans on Earth in 1572  

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in Pune helps detect atomic hydrogen from far-away galaxy

Finding opens up exciting new possibilities for probing the cosmic evolution of neutral gas with low-frequency radio telescopes

Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

Jupiter's icy moons, asteroid exploration on the cards

Countries bet big on nuclear energy to explore deep space

From fuel to outer space power plants, the world is developing different usages of nuclear energy to explore space