City-killer asteroid won’t hit earth, but might slam into moon in 2032An asteroid, 2024 YR4, once considered a potential Earth threat, now poses a 3.8% chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. Initially, NASA flagg...
11 Apr, 2025, 04.10 PM IST
Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign becoming a mass movement: PM Modi in 'Mann Ki Baat'Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasizes the importance of the Atmanirbhar Bharat campaign and urges citizens to support local businesses du...
27 Oct, 2024, 01.01 PM IST
Are there hidden secrets of the North Star? High-resolution images reveal amazing detailsFor the first time, scientists have been able to get high-resolution pictures of the surface of the North Star, which have shown off surpri...
22 Aug, 2024, 06.31 PM IST
NASA's new space telescope nears destination in solar orbitThe thrusters will be activated by mission control engineers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, and the ground team wil...
25 Jan, 2022, 07.23 AM IST
- Indian telescope measures star in Taurus constellation
Bengaluru, Nov 7 (IANS) India's multi-wavelength space telescope AstroSat had measured the X-ray polarisation of the Crab pulsar (star) in ...
07 Nov, 2017, 01.32 AM IST
- Asteroid to pass by Earth on Thursday
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) A small asteroid will safely pass by Earth on Thursday at a distance of approximately 42,000 kilometres, just abo...
11 Oct, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
China to set up world's highest altitude telescopes in TibetThe telescope, located 5,250 meters above sea level, will detect and gather precise data on primordial gravitational waves in the Northern ...
07 Jan, 2017, 05.29 PM IST
- Astronomers observe transit of Earth-like extra-solar planet
Tokyo, Nov 29 (IANS) In an important step towards the search for extra-terrestrial life, astronomers in Japan have observed the transit of ...
29 Nov, 2016, 01.47 PM IST
India loses out on hosting world's largest telescopeThere was a lot of anticipation that the giant Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) would get housed at a remote high- altitude site in the cold de...
06 Nov, 2016, 12.34 PM IST
World's largest telescope poised for trials in ChinaAbout 300 people, including builders, experts, reporters, witnessed the installation at a karst valley in Pingtang County in the southweste...
03 Jul, 2016, 12.38 PM IST
China's world's mega telescope construction enters final stageUpon completion, the telescope will be the world's largest of its kind, overtaking Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory, which is 300 meters i...
22 Nov, 2015, 04.04 PM IST
China begins assembling world's largest radio telescopeThe Chinese technicians began to assemble the telescope's reflector, which is 500 meters in diameter and made up of 4,450 panels.
23 Jul, 2015, 10.10 PM IST
India to provide software, mirrors for largest-ever telescopeTMT will be located just below the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, at an elevation of 4,050 - half the size of Mt Everest.
14 Dec, 2014, 12.30 PM IST
India joins project to build world's largest telescope in USIndia today joined the elite group of countries including USA, China and Japan to build the largest telescope in the world.
03 Dec, 2014, 02.31 AM IST
Construction on 30 Meter Telescope with Indian support beginsThe gigantic telescope, scheduled to be ready by 2020, will provide astronomers with unparalleled power to observe the intricacies of the u...
11 Oct, 2014, 05.08 PM IST
India, four other countries to build world's biggest telescopeThe 30-meter telescope, or TMT, will be established near the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano with a cost of $1.4 billion.
06 Oct, 2014, 05.50 PM IST
GOAL, Avarsala and Godrej & Boyce developing parts worth Rs 700 cr for world's largest telescopeThese cos are set to make some critical components for one of the most ambitious projects undertaken so far in astronomy.
02 Aug, 2013, 08.23 AM IST