Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
The first sea discovered on any surface other than Earth's may have been found on Saturn's moon Titan. New radar images from the Cassini spacecraft, which made its eighth close approach to the moon on September 7, have revealed what appears to be a very distinct shoreline, fed by meandering …
Sometime in 2007-2008, a cuboid-shaped spaceship will rocket into space from Sriharikota, to orbit the moon for two years. Officially, this Rs 384-crore project is not a landing mission. But new calculations are on for Chandrayaan-1
The discovery of water on Mars was the scientific breakthrough of 2004, according to one of the world's leading science journals. The water was saline, acidic - and capable of supporting life. According to the US journal, Science, the year has been noted for soaraway triumphs and heart-stopping failures in …
NASA's rover Spirit has found a mineral that is the surest hint yet of water on Mars, scientists said. Spirit discovered a so-called water-signature mineral called goethite in a section dubbed "Columbia Hills," NASA scientists said."Goethite, like the jarosite that Opportunity found on the other side of Mars, is strong …
The space shuttle, Discovery, and its seven astronauts returned to Earth safely today, bringing a successful end to NASA's troubled return to human space flight two and a half years after the Columbia disaster.Discovery made its fiery re-entry into Earth's atmosphere and swooped over the Pacific Ocean before gliding to …
NASA prepared an unmanned spacecraft for launch to Mars on Wednesday on a quest to learn whether Earth's neighbouring planet had water long enough to nurture life. Previous Mars missions have shown that water once flowed across the planet's surface. Scientists hope data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will tell …
Hundreds of tiny worlds circling beyond Neptune have been thought of as frozen in time, almost unchanged since they formed at the birth of the solar system five billion years ago. A discovery now has some astronomers entertaining visions of icy volcanoes roiling on some of them, at least at …
The sands of Mars, which hold the biggest dunes in the solar system, could contain up to 50% snow and ice, a US scientist told the British Association festival of science meeting in Dublin. The discovery could be of enormous significance. President George Bush has named Mars as the destination …
To Plan an independent mission to the moon as ISRO is doing is wasteful and unnecessary in this age of globalistion. ISRO's purported aim is to collect lunar samples for chemical analysis. The question is, do we need to add to the existing volume of lunar rock on earth? Adoring …
The Moon's soil is impregnated with nitrogen that came from Earth. This was stated by Japanese scientists in the weekly British science journal Nature. The researchers, giving a new interpretative spin on analysis of lunar soil brought home by the Apollo missions, believe that the nitrogen escaped from Earth's upper …
The Sun may have captured thousands or even millions of asteroids from another planetary system during an encounter more than four billion years ago, astronomers reported. Such an interstellar ballet would explain many mysteries of the outer solar system, including the strange behavior of the recently discovered Sedna, the system's …
The Sun may have captured thousands or even millions of asteroids from another planetary system during an encounter more than four billion years ago, astronomers are reporting. Such an interstellar ballet would explain many mysteries of the outer solar system
India and US are poised to take their strategic relationship a notch higher. They will soon sign a crucial space launch agreement to allow India to launch US- made satellites not just from US, but from other countries that use American components in their satellites.
In a departure from the earlier plan, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided that its 2007-08 unmanned moon mission will go for gold: a landing. According to the earlier plan, ISRO's lunar craft was to orbit the moon for two years, transmitting scientific data to ISRO. The country's …
Add a 10th planet to the solar system - or possibly subtract one. Astronomers announced that they had found a lump of rock and ice that is larger than Pluto and the farthest known object in the solar system. The discovery will probably rekindle debate over the definition of what …
The U.S. space program fared remarkably well in the huge appropriations bill just approved by Congress. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration got a hefty $16.2 billion budget for fiscal year 2005, only a tiny bit shy of what the administration had requested, and it was given unusual authority to …
quakes can be triggered by tides, as per researchers from the us-based University of California. The tides are produced by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on the earth, causing the ocean water to rise and fall periodically. This, in turn, raises and lowers the stress on the …
In line with the India 2020 Vision of the President, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is configuring village resource centres (VRCs) across the nation, taking into account the dynamics of rural development. The Village Resource Centre will serve as the window for interactive …
An international team led an Edinburg astronomer has discovered that by studying polarized light from black holes they can focus much more closely on what exactly is going on around them. . The work is published this week in the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on November 11.
