Science/Technology

Nukuʻalofa: The Tongan Volcano's eruption that occurred in January this year has been declared as the biggest explosion ever recorded in the earth's atmosphere, media reports said on Sunday. This explosion was far bigger than any 20th century volcanic event,...

Washington: The National Science Foundation in the US said on Thursday that astronomers have revealed the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.The National Science Foundation said the image was captured...

Washington: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson denied on Tuesday that Russia is leaving the International Space Station (ISS) project, noting that nothing has interrupted cooperation between the two nations in space."They are not pulling out. In the last day...

Moscow: The Head of the Russian state space agency said on Tuesday that Roscosmos planned to talk to Chinese officials about ways to cooperate closer on satellite communications and Earth observation."We have no doubt that cooperation we've had...

Washington: SpaceX successfully launched one of its Falcon 9 carrier rockets with a US intelligence satellite on board on Sunday, broadcasting the launch live.The launch took place at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:13 am...

Washington: The NASA scientists have revealed that sound not only travels slower in Mars as compared to Earth but that two different speeds of sound have a strange delayed effect on hearing.The scientists recently analysed the Red Planet...

Beijing: China has successfully sent seven satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday.Six satellites produced by Beijing-based GalaxySpace and a commercial remote sensing satellite were launched by a Long...

Moscow: Russia has decided to suspend cooperation with Germany on experiments on the International Space Station (ISS), Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's state-owned space corporation Roscosmos, said on Thursday.The official said that taking into account the "completely...

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) today said its second Lunar mission Chandrayaan-2 has detected Solar Proton Events (SPE) due to high intensity solar flares in January this year.Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS) on-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter...

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has de-commissioned its Communication Satellite INSAT-4B after 14 years of its operations.ISRO, in a statement said, as part of India's continual efforts towards preservation of the long-term sustainability of outer space,...