ISRO to launch its SpaDeX mission tomorrowISRO will launch its "Space Docking Experiment" (SpaDeX) mission on Monday at 9:58 pm from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. This mission aim...
30 Dec, 2024, 12.10 PM IST
Amazon to pilot AI-designed material for carbon removalAt the same time, data centers are requiring more energy to sustain AI's development and more water to keep them cool. That poses a challen...
03 Dec, 2024, 08.28 AM IST
British writer Samantha Harvey's space-station novel 'Orbital' wins the Booker Prize for fictionSamantha Harvey, a British author, was awarded the Booker Prize for her novel "Orbital." The book, set on the International Space Station, ...
13 Nov, 2024, 06.49 AM IST
3 Body Problem: Will the sci-fi series have multiple seasons? Here’s what the creator said about potential plotAdapted from Cixin Liu's novel, "3 Body Problem" debuted on March 21 and quickly garnered 11 million views within its initial four days. Th...
05 Apr, 2024, 05.17 PM IST
What is '3 Body Problem'? Exploring the science behind the seriesExploring the depths of astrophysics and science fiction, the Netflix series '3 Body Problem' presents a captivating narrative intricately ...
30 Mar, 2024, 06.37 PM IST
"Another milestone": ISRO rocket accomplishes zero orbital debris missionISRO achieved zero orbital debris mission with PSLV, marking a milestone. POEM-3 re-entered Earth's atmosphere, impacting the North Pacific...
25 Mar, 2024, 09.52 PM IST
ISRO puts out exhaustive account of what went wrong with first development flight of SSLVThe Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said considering the clear identification of the cause of the flight anomaly and suggeste...
01 Feb, 2023, 08.19 PM IST
Mission to study Sun likely to be launched by June-July, primary payload handed over to ISROIIA said it has successfully finished assembling, testing and calibrating the VELC, which is the largest and one of the most technically ch...
26 Jan, 2023, 07.34 PM IST
If China tested a new orbital weapon, it’s not much of a surprise“There’s nothing we know from reliable sources,” said Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks global space launches. The U.S. mi...
20 Oct, 2021, 12.37 PM IST
Shukrayaan: India's proposed Venus mission attracts international payload proposalsThese include "collaborative contributions" from Russia, France, Sweden and Germany, sources in the Bengaluru- headquartered space agency s...
23 Nov, 2020, 01.26 PM IST
- Indian scientists find new ways to detect 'naked singularity'
Mumbai, April 21 (IANS) In a significant find, a team of scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) here has found n...
21 Apr, 2017, 01.25 PM IST
Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of starsThese star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...
10 Mar, 2016, 04.52 PM IST
NASA satellite phones home to confirm orbitThe first of NASA's new miniature satellites that was launched last week has radioed back to confirm it is in orbit and operational.
13 Oct, 2015, 01.32 PM IST
NASA orbiter captures sites of "The Martian" landingsThe Matt Damon-starrer "The Martian" begins with a region on Red Planet called Acidalia Planitia - the landing site for the sci-fi film's "...
06 Oct, 2015, 03.58 PM IST
NASA's Messenger spacecraft crashes into Mercury, ends missionMessenger has crashed into the surface of Mercury, ending its historic 11-year mission that provided valuable data and thousands of images.
01 May, 2015, 02.04 PM IST
Mars Orbiter Mission: Kerala announces fellowships to mark Mangalyaan successThe 'Mangalyaan fellowships' would be instituted through the KSCSTE to promote novel applications of space technology in the development do...
25 Sep, 2014, 12.46 PM IST
Time to trigger desi-hued extraterrestrial imaginingsEven before the advent of the Space Age, this science fictional landscape was a romping ground in mostly American, Russian and British cult...
24 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST