<p>The CHandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2 (CHACE-2) experiment aboard Chandrayaan-2 orbiter will study in situ, the composition of the lunar neutral exosphere in the mass range 1–300
Two detectors in Antarctica have discovered minute patterns in a glow form primordial gases, possible traces of the cosmic match that ignited the Big Bang and led to the creation of the universe 14
Mars may once have been warm and wet, but, today the Red Planet is a frozen wasteland. The environment is not conductive for any living creature-- not even a microbe to survive for long on the
A research group in Japan recently stunned the scientific world with a report that a common metal compound is capable of superconducting at nearly twice the temperature of any metal superconducter
As if black holes weren't menancing enough, astronomers now have observational evidence that at least some of them spin about like whirlpools, wrapping up the fabric of space with them. Dr. Tod
US businessman Dennis Tito lifted off into orbit aboard a Russian rocket at 1.07 a.m. (IST) today, heading for the International Space Station (ISS) and becoming the world's first space
With the successful launch of GSAT-1, ISRO proposes to launch its meteorological experiment satellite with GSLV in June-July next year, the director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Mr G Madhavan
An international team of cosmologists has begun to hear the "music of creation" in its discovery of acoustic "notes"; in the sound waves that rippled through the universe not long after the Big Bang.
Astronomers have seen the first direct evidence of the birth of a planet in the form of snowballing dust grains, helping to confirm a theoretical scenario for how Earth and the other planets formed
China plans to launch its first space telescope, the Chinese version of Hubble, into robit in 2005, the state media reported today. "China will complete the project of its own space telescope in
Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) are "unperturbed" by the loss of the latest Indian satellite G-SAT. For ISRO, the loss of the satellite is like having lost a battle but
