Space Programme

New Delhi: NASA astronaut Sunita Williams celebrated her 59th birthday aboard the International Space Station (ISS) on September 19 by engaging in crucial maintenance tasks and scientific studies. The astronaut...

New Delhi: Boeing's beleaguered Starliner returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) without astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry E Wilmore. The gumdrop-shaped capsule landed gently at the White...

    New Delhi: India’s first female humanoid robot astronaut, Vyommitra, will be sent into space ahead of the ambitious Gaganyaan manned mission scheduled to be launched in 2025, Union...

Bhubaneswar: Nine mega piped water supply projects will be implemented in Odisha’s Malkangiri, Nayagarh and Jajpur districts at a cost of Rs 1,287 crore in next two years. This was...

New York: At a time when Elon Musk is effecting sweeping changes at Twitter after acquiring the social media platform, the world’s richest person is making headlines elsewhere too. Very...

New Delhi: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, also known as JWST or Webb -- which is so powerful it can observe the first galaxies born after Big Bang 14 billion...

New Delhi: The idea has always fascinated science fiction writers and Hollywood: an asteroid colliding with our planet causing mass extinction. Now, Nasa wants to stay prepared for “Deep Impact”,...

What does it take to be an astronaut? The bestseller ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’ by Chris Hadfield gives you an idea. How do you become an astronaut?...

New Delhi: Wednesday's SpaceX mission to orbit is aptly called Inspiration4. It comprises complete novices, without a professional astronaut on board. The four passengers, among them a cancer survivor, are...

New Delhi: Ringing in the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) schedule for 2021 in all glory, the agency’s PSLV-C51 blasted off the launchpad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharkota...