Science/Technology

Taiyuan: China sent a new Earth observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province at 11:01 am Tuesday (Beijing Time).The satellite, Gaofen-5 02, was launched aboard a Long March-4C rocket and entered...

Moscow: SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft launched with the Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:14 a.m. (ET) (07:14 GMT) on Sunday, carrying 4,800 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station...

Tokyo:  The operators of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant said Wednesday it plans to build an undersea tunnel so that massive amounts of treated but still radioactive water can be released into the ocean less than a mile...

Moscow: All 34 British OneWeb satellites launched from the Baikonur space center using the Russian Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket are now in orbit, a spokesperson of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, told Sputnik."Separation has been confirmed for all 34...

Hyderabad: One of the exciting celestial phenomena of the year, “Jupiter coming close to the earth' occurred on Friday.Informing this to UNI on Saturday, Planetary Society of India (PSI) Director N Sri Raghunandan Kumar said as a result of...

Moscow: The International Space Station (ISS) has been placed to a higher altitude to prepare for the arrival of Russia’s “Challenge” movie’s filming crew arrival, a spokesperson for the Roscosmos state space corporation told Sputnik on Saturday.Initially, the orbit...

London: The Delta variant of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 reduces the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines in fully vaccinated people, although they still help prevent severe symptoms of the disease, according to a University of Oxford study released on...

Bengaluru: Scientists have unearthed two new species of dinosaurs in a region where dinosaur fossils had never been discovered.About 130 to 120 million years old fossils from three different dinosaurs dating to the Early Cretaceous period have been unearthed...

Sriharikota (AP): India's heavy rocket vehicle GSLV-MkII (Geo Synchronous Launch Vehicle), having the capacity to carry satellites up to 2.5 tons and place satellites in Geostationary Orbit, has earned the tag 'Naughty Boy' from ISRO due to its unpredictable...

Kolkata: In a study released last night, NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through the year 2300, significantly...