NASA’s Swift telescope could crash to Earth as $30 million rescue spacecraft spins out of controlA mission to save NASA's Swift telescope is encountering difficulties. The Link satellite, sent for rescue, has developed thruster problems...
29 Jul, 2026, 08.32 PM IST
In 1969, Apollo 10 astronauts set the fastest human speed record in space — here's why it still hasn't been brokenApollo 10 astronauts still hold the fastest human spaceflight speed record. Their return journey from lunar orbit reached nearly 40,000 kil...
27 Jul, 2026, 07.09 PM IST
In 1993, Russia unfolded a 20-meter mirror in orbit and swept a five-kilometer patch of artificial moonlight across EuropeRussia's ambitious Znamya project aimed to channel sunlight to Earth via mirrors in orbit. In a remarkable demonstration in 1993, the Znamy...
25 Jul, 2026, 06.20 PM IST
SpaceX's latest Starship launch is different. Here's what changed in best re-entrySpaceX's latest Starship test flight delivered more than another launch, introducing engine fixes, advanced Starlink satellite deployment a...
25 Jul, 2026, 11.04 AM IST
Evil Dead Burn X reviews out: Sebastien Vanicek's horror film ‘overflows with blood, gore and vicious kills’, but ‘lacks in scares’Evil Dead Burn, the latest 6th installment, has now premiered for horror enthusiasts. This sequel delivers intense gore and brutal kills, s...
10 Jul, 2026, 08.14 PM IST
A SpaceX rocket left a lithium plume in our atmosphere — researchers say this could escalateScientists have detected a plume of lithium pollution in Earth’s upper atmosphere and traced it to the re-entry of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket...
24 Feb, 2026, 01.03 AM IST
POEM-4 re-enters Earth's atmosphere: ISROISRO announced the successful re-entry of the PSLV Orbital platform Experiment Module (POEM-4) into the Earth's atmosphere, impacting the I...
05 Apr, 2025, 09.12 AM IST
PSLV-37 rocket's upper stage re-enters Earth's atmosphere right on schedule: ISROISRO confirmed the re-entry of PSLV-37's upper stage into Earth's atmosphere after launching 104 satellites in 2017. The re-entry, monitore...
08 Oct, 2024, 02.57 PM IST
ISRO's rocket body re-enters earth's atmosphere, complies with international guidelinesISRO announced that the cryogenic upper stage of the LVM3 M3/OneWeb India-2 mission has re-entered Earth's atmosphere. The stage, left in a...
18 Jun, 2024, 07.19 PM IST
Cartosat-2: India's storied high-res image provider signs off in style, caps 17 years of happy memories for ISROCartosat-2: ISRO had expected the satellite to take about 30 years to de-orbit naturally, it said. The agency, however, chose to lower the ...
16 Feb, 2024, 04.52 PM IST
ISRO successfully carries out controlled re-entry experiment of aged satellite"The satellite re-entered the Earth's atmosphere and would have disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean," the Bengaluru-headquartered national...
07 Mar, 2023, 10.16 PM IST
NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft to splash down on December 11: All you need to knowArtemis 1 Orion Spacecraft is scheduled to splash down near Guadalupe island in the Pacific Ocean. The live stream of the landing will begi...
09 Dec, 2022, 06.00 PM IST
Disintegrated space rocket 'highly unlikely' to cause any damage on earth: ChinaThe Pentagon said on Tuesday that it was tracking a large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter earth's atmosphere this...
07 May, 2021, 09.31 PM IST
- Chinese space lab expected to re-enter on Sunday night
Paris, April 1 (IANS) The European Space Agency (ESA) has said that the Chinese defunct space lab, Tiangong-1, will re-enter Earth's atmosp...
01 Apr, 2018, 08.47 AM IST
- New missile can carry nuclear warhead: Pyongyang
Pyongyang, July 5 (IANS) The North Korean regime said on Wednesday that the new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) it launched on Tu...
05 Jul, 2017, 10.42 AM IST
Launch rehearsal of ISRO's LVM 3 successful"The nine hour 30 minutes launch rehearsal of ISRO LVM3 has just been successfully completed," ISRO said in its social networking site.
15 Dec, 2014, 03.46 PM IST
DNA can survive critical conditions in spaceThe discovery was made by scientists from the University of Zurich in Switzerland during an experiment on the TEXUS-49 research rocket miss...
27 Nov, 2014, 05.43 PM IST