350 years later Newton's Law of Gravity just got put to the ultimate test — here's how it didNewton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 billion light-yea...
11 May, 2026, 06.18 PM IST
Why This Strange Underwater “Lost City” Has Scientists Talking About Alien LifeScientists have found a vibrant 'Lost City' deep in the Atlantic Ocean, thriving without sunlight. This discovery suggests life can exist i...
11 May, 2026, 03.18 AM IST
How this Kerala boy helped put India’s space dreams on global map & earned rare 'triple Padma': All About the star who helped ISRO chase MoonKrishnaswamy Kasturirangan, the Kerala-born scientist who became one of the key architects of India’s space programme, rose from humble beg...
24 Apr, 2026, 12.31 PM IST
Artemis II is a triumph, but NASA’s ‘most ambitious’ mission carrying possible evidences of life may never returnNASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission plans to bring Martian rocks and soil to Earth. This project seeks to understand if Mars was, i...
11 Apr, 2026, 10.28 AM IST
NASA's new nuclear battery could run for 433 years living five human lifetimesNuclear Space Batteries: NASA is developing a new nuclear battery using americium-241 that could last up to 433 years, far longer than curr...
04 Apr, 2026, 09.44 AM IST
NASA Is Sending a Flying Robot to Another World: Here’s Why Wheels Are No Longer EnoughRobotic rovers have long explored planets. Now, flying robots are set to become the next frontier. The Dragonfly mission to Titan will use ...
09 Mar, 2026, 05.09 PM IST
Uranus Is Glowing, And It’s Telling Us Something ImportantJames Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images of Uranus's auroras, revealing details of its unusual magnetic environment. These i...
05 Mar, 2026, 04.37 PM IST
Hubble captures stunning, clearest image yet of the Egg NebulaNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured its clearest image yet of the Egg Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula situated almost 1,000 light-yea...
12 Feb, 2026, 01.46 AM IST
Parade of Planets on Saturday: How to watch, equipment needed, possibilities of watching it. When will be next alignment of planets?People can watch the parade of planets in a little bit different way on June 29. Jupiter will be the closest to the horizon and will be the...
28 Jun, 2024, 10.04 PM IST
Euphoria grips US scientists ahead of India's Chandrayaan-2 landingChandrayaan-2's landing module 'Vikram' will begin its final descent to pull off a historic soft landing on the lunar surface on Saturday.
06 Sep, 2019, 11.20 AM IST
- Mysterious Mars-sized object lurking at edge of solar system
New York, June 25 (IANS) Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found evidence of an unknown, Mars-sized "planetary mass object"...
25 Jun, 2017, 11.12 AM IST
- Don't miss amazing ultraviolet view of Mars
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) NASA's MAVEN mission has returned images showing the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedente...
18 Oct, 2016, 02.10 PM IST
- Moon was born when space rock hit Earth 4.5 bn years ago
Washington, Sep 27 (IANS) The moon was formed by a planetary object hitting the infant Earth some 4.5 billion years ago, say researchers wh...
27 Sep, 2016, 01.05 PM IST
NASA's 'chemical laptop' to search for alien lifeThe device being developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California analyses samples for materials associated with...
18 Nov, 2015, 06.30 PM IST
Nitrogen gas may point to alien life on exoplanetsIf nitrogen is found to be abundant in a planet's atmosphere, that world almost certainly has the right pressure to keep liquid water stabl...
07 Sep, 2015, 06.39 PM IST
Life on Mars more probable than thought: StudyScientists argue that carbon could have been deposited into the fissures of the rock when it was still on Mars by the infiltration of fluid.
03 Dec, 2014, 01.30 PM IST
Towards gaining unique insightsWhen it comes to a meeting between science and religion, two words usually sum it up: they don’t . We’re not just talking about extremists ...
19 Mar, 2010, 05.51 AM IST