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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

Space ballet

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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

The back up man

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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

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.

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 …