Science/Technology

Washington: After creating the world’s first living robots, the United States-based scientists said these robots -- known as xenobots -- can now reproduce in a way different from any plant or animal.The xenobots were first unveiled in 2020 after...

Kolkata: Indian astronomers have developed an algorithm that can increase the accuracy of data from exoplanets by reducing the contamination by the Earth’s atmosphere and the disturbances due to instrumental effects and other factors.This algorithm, called the critical noise...

Hyderabad: NASA and private rocket company SpaceX on Thursday launched four astronauts into orbit, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for future lunar missions -- one an Indian-born and a German materials scientist to the International Space...

Beijing: China successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday.The satellites, belonging to the Yaogan-35 family, were launched at 11:00 am (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D...

Beijing: China has successfully placed a group of Yaogan-32 Earth remote-sensing satellites into orbit, the China National Space Administration said on Wednesday.The satellite was launched aboard a Long March 2C carrier rocket at 3:43 p.m. local time (07:43 GMT)...

Shimla: The recent exploration by the Geo-scientists on the Himalayan Mountain ranges has shone a new light on the origin and dying of lakes. Leh was a city of lakes and the Pangong lake originated from a river while...

Seoul: South Korea on Thursday launched its first homegrown space launch vehicle, Nuri, to put a satellite into the low-Earth orbit (600-800 km).The KSLV-II, also dubbed Nuri, blasted off from the Naro Space Center in the southern coastal village...

New Delhi: Asteroids of the size of a house, several as big as a bus and one as large as an aeroplane will flyby close to the earth between Saturday and Monday.On Saturday, two asteroids, one identified as 2021...

Tokyo: The projectile, fired by North Korea, fell outside Japan's exclusive economic zone, Kyodo news agency reported on Monday.Earlier, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of South Korea said North Korea had fired an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of...

Beijing: Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, have completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday.The return capsule of the Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship, carrying astronauts Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming and...