Satellite hacking

Safe crash

The planet up close

US scientists use radar to capture every single detail of the Earth's topography

Awash with possibilities

Disaster check

Boom boom boom — like a heartbeat: Scientists pick up mysterious fast radio bursts

Properties of the signal suggest that the source lives in a very turbulent environment inside its galaxy

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 …

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&…

New space telescope to create a 3D X-ray map of Universe

The Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma telescope aims to detect up to 3 mn supermassive black holes — many of which will be new to science — and …

13.5 billion-year-old star discovered by scientists

The star is around 9 billion years older than the sun and was immediately formed after the Big Bang

Research shows universe's first life was born on carbon planets

This work shows that even stars with a tiny fraction of the carbon in our solar system can host planets

The war of the footprints

As satellites proliferate over the Indian sky and competitors wrangle a bigger share of the market, Doordarshan gears up to....

Cosmic radiations originate in earth's galaxy

Latest satellite observations provide an answer to the long-standing query: What is the source of cosmic rays -- high energy radiations -- that …

Fresh light illumines search for dark matter

New evidence has emerged for the existence of dark matter -- an invisible constituent of the universe that is believed to play a key role in the …

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 …

Married in space

The recent Atlantis-Mir docking in space, only the 2nd of its kind, is the first tentative step towards Mars

Look sharp

With the most powerful telescope in the world coming up in Chile, our view of the final frontier is sure to become larger and clearer

Space age

SPACE ’99·Organised by the Indian Space Research Organisation and Exhibitions India Private Limited, New Delhi

Redefining how we look at the early universe | James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)

Two years ago, NASA launched the most advanced telescope that has been created so far

Climate effect in space: Expect more satellite collisions

There were 5,000 active and defunct satellites in low Earth orbit as on March 2021

Missing gamma ray puzzle solved

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

First ever image of a black hole unveiled

It is a 'breakthrough for humanity', say scientists

ISRO tests Reusable Launch Vehicle- Technology Demonstrator

Reusable technology is expected to bring down costs of space missions significantly

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