- Russia supplies alpha-emitter for India's Chandrayaan-2
Chennai, Feb 14 (IANS) Russian company Isotope (part of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation) on Tuesday said it has supplied Cm-244 alp...
- Don't miss the final image that Rosetta captured
Washington, Oct 1 (IANS) A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was taken by the European Space Agencys (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft sh...
- Rosetta comet mission set for final rendezvous in space
London/Washington, Sep 29 (IANS) The European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission is set to complete its historic 12-year journey in a con...
- Trailblazing Rosetta mission comes to an end on Friday
London, Sep 26 (IANS) European Space Agency's Rosetta, the first probe in history to rendezvous with a comet, escort it as it orbits the Su...
Oberoi Group launches another luxury cruiser on NileThe Oberoi Group announced increasing their presence on the Nile with The Oberoi Philae, a luxury cruiser that would offer a four and six n...
The Oberoi Group launches second luxury Nile cruiserThe luxury cruise will feature 22 cabins and suites along with food and beverage options of western, Asian and middle eastern cuisine.
A mission almost 30 years in the making has just profoundly changed what we know about cometsIt's very possible that carbon-carrying comets that smashed into Earth long ago brought the very ingredients needed for life to arise.
We've taken another big step toward asteroid miningThe Arkyd 3, launched successfully from the International Space Station, begins a 90-day low-Earth orbit mission to test its software and c...
Mysterious pits on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet are actually enormous sinkholesThe sinkholes were recently discovered on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko by a team of researchers at the University of Maryland.
12 Indian fishermen arrested in Diego GarciaThey were arrested a few days back while fishing in the deep sea, Tamil Nadu Fishermen Development Trust President B Justin Antony said.
Philae comet landing named physics breakthrough of the yearThe first ever landing of a man-made probe onto a comet by ESA's Philae spacecraft has been named Physics World Breakthrough of the Year fo...
Comet craft Philae lander starts drilling; location still soughtTwo harpoons that should have anchored the washing machine-sized Philae to the surface did not properly deploy when it hit the comet.
ISRO releases picture of comet taken by Mars OrbiterOn a day when European Space Agency is attempting to place a robot Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, ISRO today released images of...
Comet trailer: You watched Mangalyaan, now prepare for another celestial journeyScientists believe that comets may have been the first solids to condense out of the solar nebula from which the solar system was born.
European spacecraft to land on comet in NovemberPhilae's landing site, currently known as Site J, is located on the smaller of the comet's two 'lobes', with a backup site on the larger lo...
Europe's Rosetta makes a historical first by arriving at a comet after a 10-year chaseESA's comet-chasing space probe woke up from a 31 month long hibernation on January 20, 2014, nine million kilometres from the comet.
Modern Egypt: As good as the oldEven as Hugh & Colleen Gantzer marvelled at the magnificence of the High Dam at Aswan, the temples at Abu Simbel demonstrated how keenly mo...