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Smartphones can achieve a commendable solar eclipse shot with certain tweaks and modifications. (photo: abcnews)

Wear solar specs or make a viewer to safely watch eclipse

There should be absolutely no peeking without glasses or certified filters.

20 Aug 2017 8:03 AM IST

The experiment will help scientists find different ways to look for protecting the human body from space radiations other than the use of a bulky space suit. (Photo: UAE US Embassy)

15-year old teen's space experiment to help Mars mission astronauts

Alia Almansoori's Genes in Space' experiment will determine effects of harmful radiations on DNA.

19 Aug 2017 8:48 PM IST

ÂThe H-IIA rocket blasts off from the Tanegashima space centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, southern Japan. (Photo: AFP)

Japan launches satellite for better GPS system

The launch was initially scheduled last week but was postponed due to a technical glitch.

19 Aug 2017 3:28 PM IST

This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. (Image: Pixabay)

How to safely watch an eclipse without burning your eyes out

Regular sunglasses will not do, the US space agency says.

19 Aug 2017 8:58 AM IST

On August 21, 2017, the Earth will cross the shadow of the moon, creating the first US coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in nearly 100 years.

What's a total solar eclipse and why this one is so unusual

The last time a total solar eclipse swept the whole width of the US was in 1918.

19 Aug 2017 8:14 AM IST

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, with NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-M aboard, in a NASA handout photo obtained on August 18, 2017. (Photo: AFP)

NASA launches satellite to help astronauts talk to Earth

The satellite will -"support critical space communication into the mid-2020s,-" NASA said in a statement.

19 Aug 2017 7:49 AM IST

Planet Earth. (Photo: Pixabay)

'Earth-like planet may exist in nearby star system'

The gas giant with 0.64 Jupiter masses is orbiting the star at a distance of 3.53 AU, while the other planet is...

18 Aug 2017 2:20 PM IST

will brighten to ninth magnitude in late August and early September, when it will be visible in small telescopes for several nights.

Big asteroid to pass safely by Earth on September 1: NASA

This year's encounter is the closest by the asteroid since 1890 and the closest it will ever be until after 2500.

18 Aug 2017 12:59 PM IST

Earth is all set to witness another solar eclipse, which will take place between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Of demons and dragons - the history of solar eclipses

The ancient Chinese banged on pots to frighten away Sun-gobbling dragons.

18 Aug 2017 12:34 PM IST

Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin (left) and Sergey Ryazanskiy are pictured in the Orlan spacesuits they are wearing during todays spacewalk. Credit: @SergeyISS

Cosmonauts release 3D-printed satellite into space

The exterior casing of the first one tossed overboard was made with a 3-D printer.

18 Aug 2017 10:02 AM IST

This celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location. (Image: Pixabay)

Chasing eclipses across the globe is a way of life for some

There's a small group of people who have experienced it all before and they can't get enough of it.

18 Aug 2017 9:10 AM IST

Total solar eclipse in the United States (Photo: AFP)

Facts about the US solar eclipse on August 21

For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will march across the entire United States.

18 Aug 2017 8:24 AM IST