Polar vortex collapse: What is the phenomenon that the US and Canada are gearing up for?A polar vortex collapse is set to unleash harsh winter-like conditions across North America. A polar vortex is a large atmospheric region c...
05 Mar, 2025, 09.48 PM IST
Worst hurricane to hit US since 2005 created waves 55 miles above ground: Watch NASA's shocking visualHurricane Helene, the deadliest hurricane since 2005, slammed into Florida's Gulf Coast, causing widespread destruction and claiming 227 li...
12 Nov, 2024, 10.49 AM IST
Ozone layer at risk from Elon Musk's Starlink satellites? New study showsWith 6,000 of the 8,100 objects currently in low Earth orbit belonging to Starlink, the environmental impact of these satellites is raising...
19 Jun, 2024, 04.29 PM IST
Indian-American computer scientist Swati Varshney aims to break records with stratosphere jump in 2025Swati Varshney, an Indian-American computer scientist, is one of the three explorers on the Hera Rising project, which aims to send a woman...
30 Aug, 2023, 04.51 PM IST
Space tourism: Rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights - imagine a whole industryThese gases and particles have many negative effects on the atmosphere. In the stratosphere, nitrogen oxides and chemicals formed from the ...
21 Jul, 2021, 11.26 AM IST
VC fund wants to create an ‘Airbnb Mafia’Riley Newman is one executive who got away. One of the first 10 employees at the company rose to run its data science unit and then left la...
13 Mar, 2018, 09.27 AM IST
Would you pay $50 for coffee that is from space?To make the Astronaut coffee, cafe-owner Byeon puts the coffee beans into a weather balloon and launches it into space.
20 Jan, 2018, 06.14 PM IST
Indian-origin woman neurosurgeon picked for NASA space missionThe mission is expected to start by early 2018 and there has been talks going on with various companies regarding the mission and necessary...
10 Feb, 2017, 09.40 AM IST
Shawna Pandya to become the third Indian-origin woman to fly in spacePandya was one of two candidates shortlisted from 3,200 people in the Citizen Science Astronaut program.
09 Feb, 2017, 03.09 PM IST
Hot hydrogen atoms found in Earth's atmosphereIn order to extract information about the upper atmosphere from such measurements, one needs to calculate exactly how the solar photons are...
08 Dec, 2016, 04.37 PM IST
How Facebook and Yahoo are spawning billion-dollar startupsIn 2014, venture capitalists made 37 investments in open source-based startups, according to Redpoint VC Tomasz Tunguz in a recent blog.
18 Jun, 2015, 01.12 PM IST
Startups in Indian space sector need a legal and regulatory frameworkThe two-year-old startup is in the process of developing a 12 kilogram, frugal satellite for AMSAT-INDIA, the Indian arm of the global grou...
16 Dec, 2014, 07.30 AM IST