A new multimillion-rand telescope in the Karoo will offer astronomers an unprecedented view of the stars. The MeerLICHT instrument in Sutherland will be specifically linked to the MeerKAT radio telescope array near Carnarvon in the Northern Cape. Unlike its bigger brother SALT (Southern African Large Telescope), the MeerLICHT is meant …
Srinivas Laxman | TNN Mumbai: Forty thousand and counting. The Rs 386-crore Indian Moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, which completes a flawless 100 days around January 30 has transmitted more than 40,000 images of different types since its launch on October 22, 2008, which many in Isro believe is quite a record …
London:Astronomers claim to have finally solved the cosmic chicken-egg problem. They say that black holes have come before galaxies. For several years, researchers have known galaxies and black holes must have co-evolved. If not all, at least our own
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), one of the 11 payloads on board India's Chandrayaan-I spacecraft, has taken composite image of the Orientale Basin region of the moon providing new information, the officials said. Different wavelengths of light in the image was captured by M3, during the commissioning phase of Chandrayaan-I, …
After the historic moon mission, India will redesign Russian space capsule Soyuz to send its astronauts on the country's maiden manned space mission. "We will be redesigning the Soyuz space capsule of the Russian agency for our mission," said Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman G Madhavan Nair. Isro signed …
Chandrayaan-1, the unmanned mission sent by India for exploration of moon, has won a prestigious international award. The International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) chose the Chandrayaan-1 team for giving the International Cooperation award, M, Annadurai, project director, Chandrayaan-1, said here today. The ILEWG is a public forum sponsored by …
Astronauts hooked up a water recycling system and installed two new bedrooms aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday while crewmates prepared for a second spacewalk to fix the outpost's power system. The work is part of a final effort to complete the $100 billion orbital complex, a project involving …
The moon impact probe (MIP) aboard the unmanned Chandrayaan-1 will be dropped on the lunar surface tomorrow marking the beginning of the operational phase of India
Moscow: Scientists from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh have said that judging by the chemical composition of stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy could contain anywhere between 300 and 38,000 highly developed extraterrestrial civilizations potentially capable of contacting planet earth. And that future fuel could come from some distant …
Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky, where it's not wanted, instead of focusing it downward, where it is. Ill-designed lighting washes out the darkness of night and radically alters the light levels
Astronomers have detected the most distant gamma-ray burst ever found. The cosmic explosion came from a star that detonated about 12.8 billion light years from earth. The new record holder, called GRB 080913, was first detected on September 13 by Nasa
Calcutta and most of eastern India will be witness to the spectacle of Mars and Saturn nudging each other, with a crescent moon watching over them, this weekend. This rare conjunction after sunset on July 6 will be topped by Regulus (Megha), the brightest star in the Leo constellation, making …
Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bonedry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the sunless sea bottom vents in the Pacific. Could such exotic life emerge in the frigid arctic plains of Mars? Nasa's Phoenix spacecraft …
