Broken cable damages Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico
The Arecibo Observatory is one of the largest radio telescopes in the world. It features prominently in the last part of the 1995 movie GoldenEye
Native tree species are climate resilient, maintain ecological balance
Introducing exotic species and promoting monoculture plantations in forest areas, village common lands have caused disastrous impacts on the …
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
India's navigation system will not depend on US for accuracy in time
ISRO’s indigenous regional navigation positioning system will be based on the Indian clock system instead of the US
Mercury transit helps scientists study the planet
Scientists attempted to understand the processes of sodium atoms being released into Mercury’s atmosphere
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 …
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‘Blue marble’: How half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
A photo taken by NASA in December 1972 has become an icon of the global environmental movement
Can Europa support life? Scientists estimate thickness of Jupiter moon’s ice shell to help figure it out
Europa’s icy crust found to be at least 20 kilometres thick
CAG tears apart Antrix-Devas deal
Former ISRO chairperson Madhavan Nair took advantage of the many positions of power he held to push deal through, says Comptroller and Auditor …
How looking into space can help our understanding of climate change on Earth
Atmospheric changes on exoplanets could hold clues to our own environmental problems
Will India's Mars mission succeed?
ISRO has a contingency plan to salvage the mission in case the LAM engine fails
2023 in a blink: DTE’s reportage on global scientific research this year
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2023
Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?
India’s success came just days after a spectacular Russian failure
GSAT communication satellite costing Rs 508 crore unused for half its lifetime: CAG report
GSAT-6 was expected to last for 12 years from 2015
Despite PM Modi’s assurance, land degradation, desertification increasing
Some 29.7 per cent of India’s land is degraded, according to a new ISRO atlas
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.
Study disproves Hawking, shows tiny black holes may not account for Dark Matter
For a whole night, the research team took 190 consecutive images of Andromeda galaxy
India to get real time forest fire alert system
Forest Survey of India's new programme also tracks big fire incident
Trapping solar energy in space
Can solar power ever become a major source of energy?
Disappearing fields
Urbanisation takes its toll on farmlands
Scepticism to clarity: Dormant black hole found in Milky Way’s satellite galaxy
The discovery is also a vindication of the possibility of an abundance of black holes in our universe
Hubble spots possible water plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa
The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa’s ocean without having to drill through …
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
Most distant source of radio emission discovered, holds clues about ancient universe
Supermassive black holes that formed when the universe was young have raised more questions than they answered
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