Nasa plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, said the US space agency.

Chinese astronauts may grow fresh vegetables in extraterrestrial bases on Moon or Mars in the future to provide food and oxygen supplies to astronauts, an official said after a successful lab exper

The nearly 900kg Nasa’s Curiosity rover which touched down on the Red Planet’s Gale Grater on August 6 has “discovered hints of organic compounds which could aid primitive life,’’ mission scientist

Scientists on Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system’s inn

Mercury is as cold as ice.

Beginning a new era in communication, Sri Lanka’s first communication satellite, Supreme SAT I will be launched from Xichang Satellite launch centre in China today.

Jorhat, Nov. 21: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is planning to apply shockwave technology to the tea industry, which scientists feel could bring about a revolution.

Sri Lanka would move to a new era on Thursday when the country’s first Communication satellite would be orbited from China. In a few hours, it would be positioned over Sri Lanka.

China on Monday sent the third satellite in its "Environment I" family into the sky, sharpening its abilities in environmental monitoring and disaster forecasting.

Dual-use research of concern (DURC) is the research that is intended for legitimate benefits, but also carries a risk of being misused. In this article, the work related to regulation of dual-use influenza virus research involving genetic engineering of the subtype H5N1 has been compared with the research involving regulation of biotech crops including Bt cotton and Bt brinjal in India, which the author likes to describe as dual-impact research of concern. The growth of biotech crops globally has been briefly described to highlight that no harmful effects of any biotech crop grown and

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