Outer space: Rwanda & Nigeria sign an accord for more responsible exploration — why this matters

It also enables the countries to participate in events where decisions on outer space are made

Are black holes time machines? Yes, but there’s a catch

Black hole is an extremely massive object that is typically formed when a dying star collapses in on itself

What’s the mysterious light up above? A supermassive black hole ripping a star apart

Halfway across the universe, this is brightest and farthest tidal disruption event ever detected

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 …

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 …

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

In the future, technology will lead to solutions as well as conflicts: Report

Published by the World Economic Forum, the report says that future conflicts and collaborations would be over weather manipulation tools, food …

India to send manned mission to space within 40 months

This feat has only been achieved by three countries till now—the United States, Russia and China

World eagerly awaits New Horizons’ flyby past Pluto

Scientists are eager to collect data on the dwarf planet’s chemical and atmospheric makeup using the Ralph spectrometer 

One of the world's largest radio telescope being set up near Pune will look for incontrovertible evidence for the Big Bang theory on the origin …

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 …

Celestial explorers

Book>> Voyager, seeking newer worlds in the third great age of discovery • by Stephen J Pyne • Viking • Rs 1,000

Brightest object in night sky not a star: BlueWalker 3 satellite for cellular broadband interferes with astronomical studies

The trend towards the launch of increasingly larger and brighter satellites continues to grow

Economic survey 2022: India saw 47 new space start-ups

At present, India accounts for only about 2% of global space economy

Black China

Soot particles are causing intensive droughts and floods in China

Disoriented

Lack of mapping policy is a sign of information backwardness in the digital era

Restrictions are redundant

For the rich

Map monopoly

The Union ministry of defence is paranoid

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 …

ISRO has realised Sarabhai’s vision of using space technology to help the common man

Wing Commander (retired) Rakesh Sharma recently completed 35 years of being the first Indian to have ever set foot in space. He talked to Down To …

Here is what Indian scientists achieved in 2018

Here is a collection of 15 such stories that gives a glimpse of important developments reported by Indian scientists during the year.

Space mirror "illumines" Europe by night

A Russian attempt to light up the night by using sunlight reflected from a huge space-based mirror failed to come up to expectations but could …

The eye in the sky

India is one of the few developing countries to have its own space satellite systems. And, now Indian planners are depending increasingly on …

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 …

Chandrayaan 2 launch called off due to technical snag

Isro to tell revised launch date later