Science/Technology

Los Angeles: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the iconic Pillars of Creation, where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust, the agency said.The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far...

Chennai: The US Space Agency the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are collaborating on one of NASA's biggest project--the NASA-ISRO SAR Mission (NISAR), a joint Earth-observing mission.This was disclosed by Drew...

Beijing: China successfully launched three Shiyan type research satellites with the Long March-6 carrier rocket on Tuesday morning, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said.The launch of the Shiyan-16A, Shiyan-16B and Shiyan-17 satellites took place at 7:50...

Hyderabad: One of the exciting celestial events of the year ''Jupiter Opposition with Sun'' will occur at 1.03 AM on Tuesday.Planetary Society of India (PSI) Director N Sri Raghunandan Kumar in a release here on Monday said as a...

Los Angeles: NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected seismic waves from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in the past two years, NASA said.Not only do these represent the first impacts detected by the spacecraft's seismometer since InSight...

Los Angeles: NASA's Perseverance rover has started its second science campaign on Mars, collecting rock-core samples in an area long considered by scientists to be a top prospect for finding signs of ancient microbial life on the Red...

New Delhi: India will send a human in space in the 'Gaganyaan' in 2024, Earth Sciences Minister Jitendra Singh said and added that trials for the 'Gaganyaan' would start later this year. He also said India is planning to send...

Los Angeles: NASA scrubbed its second launch attempt of the Artemis I lunar mission due to a leak issue.Artemis I is the first integrated test of NASA's deep space exploration systems, involving the Orion spacecraft, a Space Launch System...

LOS ANGELES: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first-ever direct image of a planet outside the solar system, the agency said on Thursday.The exoplanet in Webb's image, called HIP 65426 b, is a gas giant, about six...

Jiuquan: China sent a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.The satellite, Yaogan-33 02, was launched by a Long March-4C carrier rocket at 7:44 am (Beijing time) and...