Timing it right

The quest for water

...takes NASA to the moon

Capturing Earth

Faulty premise

Fall from heaven

No takers

Brickmakers resist alternatives

Brunt bearers

He profits who 'manages' kiln labour well

After abuse

A kiln is a blot on the village landscape

Pure need

Why do people prefer to give away their land to brick manufacturing units?

Pure loss

Kiln conomics relies on digging up clay: prime agricultural land

One bright star

XMMM-Newton: churning papers at the speed of light

The brightest object in the universe is a black hole that eats a star a day

The accretion disc around J0529-4351 is seven light years across, is a gateway to a place of no return

African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries

South Africa also has well-established infrastructure at its astronomical sites, which are protected by legislation

Captain Cernan leaves planet forever, 44 years after his final walk on moon

Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17, the final manned lunar landing

Light information

Optic fibres enable transmission of information at the speed of light and without any interference

Space opera

After years of pranged possibilities and piggyback rides, India has attained independent satellite launch capability

Collision in space

At least 2 Indian planetaria are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime ogle at Jupiter as it is strafed by a comet shower

In search of gravitational waves

Two projects are under way to detect an elusive phenomenon that are thought to be produced by violent events in outer space

Spin-off to space

The billion-dollar Star Wars programme lies abandoned, but the technology will now be used to combat asteroids

Mission: Planet Earth

NASA scientists have developed a new space-based imager with very high resolution which will help foresters, farmers and geologists, and lay the …

From Russia with love

Exchange of technology between Russia and the West is opening up new horizons in the aerospace industry

Spy in the sky

A few hundred dollars is all you need to "borrow" the services of world's first commercial spy satellite

Indian Space Research Organisation’s maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1 reaches its destination

The mission to study the sun is among a slate of projects ISRO has lined up through the year

NASA to crash into asteroid, ESA to follow up

European Space Agency teams up with NASA to test planetary defence programme

Common man's access to space

Small satellites are providing cost-effective and reliable means of space exploration