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'Matured boy' GSLV places gen-next INSAT-3DS weather satellite into orbit

Moving ahead on its mission to study the Earth and ocean surfaces, Indian Space Research Orgainsation on Saturday successfully launched its next generation weather observation satellite INSAT-3DS......

'Proud to be your partner': US hails India on Chandrayaan-3

American politicians, newspapers and space research institutions hailed India Wednesday on the successful moon landing of Chandrayaan-3 as the country entered the elite club of three other nations......

Will Artemis Accords Help India's Space Programme?

'This may open up doors for private players in India to collaborate with global players in commercial missions.' IMAGE: Artemis team members pose for a photograph at an event during which NASA......

Can Earth Avoid Killer Space Rocks?

An asteroid larger than Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, will pass within 1.2 million miles of Earth on Thursday, January 20.Stephen Hawking, in his final book Brief Answers to......

Indian-Americans taking over US, says Biden

Indian-Americans are 'taking over the country', United States President Joe Biden said on Thursday, referring to the large number of 'incredible' professionals from the community holding key......

How to get Uncle Sam to fund your start-up

In 2006, Matt Silver, an engineering student in the Ph.D. program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dreamed up a new method for converting organic waste into power. All he needed was......

Indian Amercian gets plum post in US govt

Neel Kashkari, who was the Senior Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson, was nominated by President Bush to the post of Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs and has......

A virtual flight over the moon, Mars soon!

NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from......

The woman who creates robots

Watching the original Star Wars movie as a mathematically inclined 11-year-old, Helen Greiner dreamed of someday creating a robot like the heroic R2-D2.After enduring plenty of lean years chasing......

Now, NASA supercomputer is 'fastest'

The Unites States space agency NASA has unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer at its Ames Research Centre in California, where India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla worked for years, in honour......

The Mission Mangal Review

Mission Mangal has its heart in place, feels Sukanya Verma. An apple fell on Newton’s head, Archimedes stepped inside a bathtub and Vidya Balan fries puris to make an important......

What Akshay Kumar wants to tell ALL heroes!

'In our textbooks, we never had chapters where a woman does something.''We had one Rani Laxmibai chapter, the rest only the men did.''We have been trained like that but, now, things have to......

'Mission Mangal belongs to its female actors'

'Our culture, our history, our achievements are great and we should start celebrating them.''I am glad our movies are doing that and Mission Mangal is doing that.' Mission Mangal's trailer was......

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