Spectacular Shortlist for Best Astronomy Photos of the Year

The spectacular Milky Way over the picturesque Bavarian mountain, Herzogstand, the remarkable Horsehead Nebula and the Flame Nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust where new stars are being born; the......

Death of a Hero: How Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan was ambushed

IMAGE: An NSG commando at the spot where the terrorist who shot Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan had positioned himself. 26/11 will always be remembered for the courage displayed by our security......

NSG gets more firepower with grenade lobbing UAVs, dogo robo

A grenade-dropping drone, 3D fly-on-the-wall radar to see through a 20-m-thick wall and a ‘dogo robot’ armed with remote pistol are some of the latest weaponry provided to the National......

Get ready for 'Blue Moon' on August 31

A full moon will rise in the eastern twilight sky for the second time this month on August 31, which has come to be called as 'Blue Moon'. The first full moon occurred on August 1 in the Americas,......