‘City-Killer’ Asteroid Threat: Could thousands of undetected space rocks hit Earth? Here’s what’s keeping NASA Scientists awake at nightSpace agencies maintain that global cooperation and sustained investment are vital to planetary defence. While the DART mission demonstrate...
17 Feb, 2026, 03.25 PM IST
What is Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the rare object approaching Sun in a few days? 10 pointsAstronomers have found a rare interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS. It is travelling through our solar system. The comet will reach its closes...
24 Oct, 2025, 02.56 PM IST
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS stuns scientists again: New images reveal giant jet blasting toward the Sun. Is it a threat to Earth?A rare interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, is approaching its closest point to the Sun on October 30. Scientists are excited to study this alien ...
24 Oct, 2025, 01.45 PM IST
God of Chaos asteroid Apophis approaches Earth. Will it pose threat to planet or flyby? These spacecrafts witness object, see its sizeGod of Chaos asteroid Apophis will pass Earth on April 13, 2029, in a safe flyby. Three missions—ESA’s Ramses, JAXA’s DESTINY+, and NASA’s ...
19 Sep, 2025, 10.00 PM IST
Trump plan to kill dozens of NASA missions threatens US space supremacyPresident Trump's proposed budget for 2026 threatens NASA's science spending, potentially abandoning the Mars sample return mission and oth...
12 Jun, 2025, 04.02 PM IST
DOGE cuts hobble office that would aid NASA and SpaceX Mars landingsNASA's crucial Astrogeology Science Center, vital for safe lunar and Martian landings, faces potential staff cuts of at least 20% due to co...
15 Apr, 2025, 01.00 AM IST
Ocean dumping - or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbonPlanetary Technologies in Nova Scotia uses magnesium oxide to reduce carbon dioxide via the ocean, backed by $1 million from Elon Musk's fo...
22 Mar, 2025, 12.32 AM IST
‘Earth is warming at its fastest pace in 10,000 years — business leaders must heed the Anthropocene’The 25th ET Awards for Corporate Excellence featured a special address by Mrs Meera Jain. She highlighted the pressing need to address clim...
12 Mar, 2025, 09.42 PM IST
Industry leaders must invest in a better-informed future: Meera Jain at ET AwardsMeera Jain, founder of Times Evoke, emphasizes the urgent need for business leaders to redirect their resources towards environmental initi...
10 Mar, 2025, 08.56 AM IST
Moon to the rescue? Scientists say Earth’s ‘bodyguard’ could absorb deadly 'city-killer' asteroid's impactAsteroid 2024 YR4, a potential “city-killer,” has a small chance of hitting Earth in 2032—but scientists say it might strike the Moon inste...
15 Feb, 2025, 10.34 PM IST
Researchers discover how impact causes a new planet to 'break up'Every solid body in the solar system is constantly pummeled by impacts, both large and small. Even on Earth, every single spot has been aff...
19 Aug, 2022, 09.54 AM IST
ISRO calls for global proposals to carry experiments on Venus missionISRO has invited proposals from the international scientific community to carry out novel experiments on its planned Venus mission, schedul...
12 Nov, 2018, 01.30 PM IST
- NASA to send probe to Titan or a comet by 2025
Washington, Dec 21 (IANS) NASA has picked two concepts for a solar system mission planned to launch in the mid-2020s -- a comet sample retu...
21 Dec, 2017, 11.22 AM IST
India, Japan ink 10 pacts, cover areas like space, agriculture"This MoU would also enable the two sides to explore opportunities to set up a NIIF-JOIN joint fund," the Ministry of External Affairs said...
11 Nov, 2016, 06.03 PM IST
New NASA programme to protect Earth from asteroids, cometsMore than 13,500 near-Earth objects of all sizes have been discovered to date - over 95 per cent of them since NASA-funded surveys began in...
17 Jan, 2016, 06.43 PM IST
Planetoid beyond Pluto New Horizons' next destinationThis remote Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 was one of two identified as potential destinations and the one recommended to NASA.
31 Aug, 2015, 01.36 PM IST
A group of astronomers is the only reason NASA is about to visit the last unexplored worldA spacecraft that's been traveling for 10 years is about to make history when it flies past Pluto and captures our first close up view of t...
08 Jul, 2015, 01.21 PM IST