Russian mice, fruit flies set to conquer space, Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite mission to fly them for space researchRussia's Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome will carry 75 mice and 1,500 fruit flies for space medicine research. T...
18 Aug, 2025, 12.15 PM IST
Japan's Nikkei rises on demand for futures, a weaker YenJapan's Nikkei climbed on Friday, buoyed by a weaker yen and futures demand ahead of special quotation price fixings, despite a projected w...
06 Jun, 2025, 09.01 AM IST
Did Covid-19 lockdown cause temperatures on the Moon to drop? All you need to knowDid Earth's pandemic lockdowns influence the moon's temperatures? Researchers have now revisited the study to see if the sudden break in hu...
11 Feb, 2025, 02.22 PM IST
ISRO gears up for last mission of 2024, to experiment with 24 payloadsISRO is set to launch its final mission of 2024, deploying 24 scientific experiments into orbit using the PSLV Orbital Experiment Module-4 ...
22 Dec, 2024, 10.09 PM IST
Chandrayaan's 15 instruments are now studying Earth, Sun and Moon; 65 TB already received since 2019India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter has transmitted a total of 65 terabytes (TB) of data since its launch in 2019. The data is expected to increa...
25 Aug, 2023, 03.55 PM IST
Budget allocates Rs 12,544 crore for spaceThe largest chunk of the allocation -- to the tune of Rs 11,669.41 crore -- has gone to central sector schemes or projects such as the huma...
01 Feb, 2023, 08.28 PM IST
Rare Apollo 11 image of Neil Armstrong on the Moon now up for auction, expected to fetch up to $30kThe shot is the one and proper, full-body, photograph of Neil Armstrong taken during the historic moonwalk - yet it was mislabelled as Buzz...
23 Nov, 2022, 10.02 PM IST
Space junk on 5,800-mph collision course with moonThe moon is about to get walloped by 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater that could fit several semitractor-trailers.
02 Mar, 2022, 02.56 PM IST
Quad push: ISRO taking space ties with US, Japan and Australia to a higher orbitThe Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) last week shipped the S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) to U.S. space agency NASA's Jet P...
16 Mar, 2021, 03.52 PM IST
Sweden getting on board India's Venus mission with payload to explore planetThe VNA would be the ninth generation of IRFs series of miniatured ion and ENA (Energetic Neutral Atoms) instruments, according to Swedish ...
25 Nov, 2020, 12.38 PM IST
Nepal confirms first case of deadly coronavirusThe novel coronavirus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. The coronavirus is a large family of ...
24 Jan, 2020, 09.11 PM IST
Google marks ISRO founder Vikram Sarabhai's birth centenary with doodleRemembered as the Father of the Indian space program, Sarabhai was instrumental in setting up several institutions in the country.
12 Aug, 2019, 11.48 AM IST
Venus mission: ISRO invites proposals for space experimentsThough no time-frame has been set by the ISRO for the ambitious mission, indications are that the Indian Venusian orbiter mission may not h...
24 Apr, 2017, 07.19 PM IST
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