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IRNSS-1H, the backup satellite in the indigenous navigation system, will be launched by PSLV-C39 rocket from Sriharikota at 6.59 pm. (Photo: ISRO)Science
PSLV-C39 carrying India's first 'private' satellite to launch today

Private firms had so far only built components and systems for India's satellites and rockets.

31 Aug 2017 1:54 AM IST

Scientists at city-based National Geographical Research Institute (NGRI) have found volcanic passive continental margins beneath the Maitri Station in the East Antarctica. (Representational image)Science
Scientists at Hyderabad-based NGRI find volcanic margins in East...

Maitri is India's second research station in the Antarctica. Studies are conducted there on intra crustal layers beneath...

30 Aug 2017 9:48 PM IST

This artists concept from August 2015 depicts NASAs InSight Mars lander fully deployed for studying the deep interior of Mars. The mission will launch during the period March 4 to March 30, 2016, and land on Mars Sept. 28, 2016. (Photo: NASA)Science
NASA's next Mars mission to probe red planet's deep interior

Information gathered by the Insight mission will boost understanding of how all rocky planets formed, including Earth,...

29 Aug 2017 3:21 PM IST

Pictures taken by Madhavan Rangaswami at Madras, Oregon show the lit up scene before the event and the darkness at totality during the eclipse.Science
Exuberance was total too On Eclipse day

So, let's just say Donald Trump was more fortunate. He could even glance at the Sun without the funny glasses.

28 Aug 2017 6:44 AM IST

Unlike on Earth, the snow and ice is carbon dioxide, better known to us as dry ice. (Photo: NASA)Science
NASA unveils 'beautiful patterns' of snow-covered dunes on Mars

The image was taken on May 21 in the Northern hemisphere of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment...

27 Aug 2017 8:34 AM IST

NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft gave its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon Triton in 1989. This picture of Neptune obtained in August 2014 was produced from the last whole planet images taken through the green and orange filters on the Voyager 2 narrow angle camera. (Photo:AFP)Science
Forty years on, NASA's Voyager still hurtles through space

Voyager's main mission was to explore other planets including Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune.

27 Aug 2017 7:52 AM IST

An atomic clock uses electron transition frequency of atoms to mark time.Science
Improved version of clocks in IRNSS-1H

The atomic clocks were imported from Europe.

27 Aug 2017 7:42 AM IST

The wipeout of dinosaurs, said a trio of US-based researchers in the new paper, was caused by two periods of global warming the first sparked by monster volcanic eruptions in what is India today, and the second by the space rock impact itself.Science
Scientists discover 70mn-year-old titanosaurian dinosaur species in...

The team conducted phylogenetic analyses to understand the evolutionary relationships of these and other titanosaurs.

26 Aug 2017 1:12 PM IST

\If astronauts are going to make journeys that span several years, well need to find a way to reuse and recycle everything they bring with them,\ says Mark Blenner, lead researcher. (Representational Image: Clip from The Martian (2015).Science
Going for a pee? Wait! NASA could use it to make plastic for...

Scientists have found a way to turn human urine into plastics using biologically engineered yeast.

25 Aug 2017 11:28 AM IST

Space Xs Falcon 9 rocket prepared for a launch to the International Space Station in February 2017 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Photo: AFP)Science
SpaceX launches Taiwan's first home-built satellite

The satellite is designed to operate for five years, and will orbit the Earth once every 100 minutes.

25 Aug 2017 7:29 AM IST

Boeing is also working to get US astronauts flying again from home soil. Boeing is going blue for spacesuits for its Starliner capsules.Science
SpaceX unveils sleek, white spacesuit for astronaut travel

SpaceX is developing a crew version of its Dragon cargo capsule for NASA astronauts.

24 Aug 2017 1:16 PM IST

Mars as seen by the webcam on ESAs Mars Express orbiter in 2016. (Photo: AFP)Science
Mars weather: 'Cloudy, chance of nighttime snowstorm'

The new findindgs suggest that ice-water particles swirling in a storm hit the ground within minutes.

23 Aug 2017 7:31 AM IST

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