Castle in the air

The first truly international space station will soon become a reality

A reversal of time!

Statistical physics provides an explanation to dark matter and how time could run backwards

It's different

Space cartography of gravity

India part of Galileo

Scientific gains at EU-India summit, no trade progress

It's an old, old planet

It's called outreach

Indian science is in Space, but not its villages

Rings and wings

Information gathered by the spacecraft Cassini may solve many riddles about the next-most interesting planet after Mars

On borrowed time

The Hubble telescope is slowly wearing out and efforts to repair it are on, alongwith preparations for its replacement

Distance dilemma

Are quasars near or far? Doubts appear as the astronomical calculator, red shift, is challenged

Space science, biology and politics

NASA hopes to solve its resource crunch by putting forward a case that uses space science for explaining the origins of life

Light show

A meteor shower will light up the sky like a Christmas tree. But electronic satellites may not enjoy it

Walk on the ocean

Jupiter's moon Ganymede shows hints of what was once an ocean. But it is still too early to say whether the satellite supports life

Cool Mr Moon

There is a lot of hydrogen on the moon, possibly in the form of water-ice, which could fuel rockets -- and is fuelling fantasies about colonisation

Life on Mars? NASA's Curiosity helps discover traces of ancient ocean

A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars, signifying a higher potential for life on …

NASA releases first pieces of the multispectral maps of Mars

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been mapping minerals on the red Planet for the last 16 years with the help of CRISM

The stratosphere, the earth’s blanket is disappearing

The shrinking stratosphere is a stark signal of the climate emergency and the planetary-scale influence that humanity now exerts

Marsquakes: InSight lander shows active faults in the planet’s crust

It successfully managed to use a robot arm to place a seismometer on ground clear of landing platform, then cover it with a wind & thermal shield

Red planet rumbles: NASA’s recordings of ‘marsquakes’ let us listen to the martian heartbeat

Sounds and vibrations are important, they tell us about the medium they’re travelling through

Hawaii to begin construction of mega-telescope on July 15

Thirty Meter Telescope got delayed over planned site of construction atop Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain to native Hawaiians — already home …

Rakesh Sharma on space exploration and technology

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 …

First global map of atmospheric ammonia distribution published

Researchers also found that past assumptions about atmospheric ammonia levels are largely inaccurate and that the levels are much higher than …

Heat comes in from the cold

The unlit part of the crescent moon can help calculate Earth's temperature and measure greenhouse warming

Countdown to self-reliance

Indian space scientists have been forced on the indigenisation track to launch communications satellites

A close encounter with Jupiter's secrets

Spacecraft Ulysses passed the largest planet in the solar system and picked up a rich haul of information before heading for the sun on its …

New stars on the horizon

An exciting new discovery might lead to a confirmation of the presence of the farthest known galaxy