Coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh which bore the brunt of cyclone Laila received an average of about two inches of rainfall per hour, according to data collected by a NASA satellite.
Coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh which bore the brunt of cyclone Laila received an average of about two inches of rainfall per hour, according to data collected by a NASA satellite.
There's wisdom to be found in an unfairly treated man's short and sweet concluding words -- a nation is only as great as our appreciation of the people who make it great, notes Sukanya Verma.
A team from Jalandhar-based Apeejay School has won the gold medal in a "Space Settlement Design Competition".
With Western corporations, including Microsoft, AWS and Oracle, shutting down their operations in Russia, the rest of the world has become acutely aware of its dependence on a clutch of technology service providers.
A sweeping view of the "Pahrump Hills" outcrop on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover has been working for five months, surrounds the rover in Curiosity's latest self-portrait.
The first radar images of a huge asteroid that safely flew past Earth show that the space rock has its own small moon, NASA scientists say.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut Edward Fincke, who is married to a Assamese NRI, will visit the North East region of India in the first week of September.
Fires are raging at a record rate in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, and scientists warn that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change. Although more than 72,000 fires have raged since the year began, over 9,500 new infernos have ignited since last Thursday, according to Brazil's space research centre INPE. There has been an 83 per cent surge in forest fires since the same period last year and the highest number since records began.
"It is going to be the most complex mission ever undertaken by ISRO. It is going to take place between July 9 and 16, this year," Sivan said, addressing scientists from the Mission Control Centre.
US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the launch date for the first test flight of a commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS).
Temperatures in Saturn's stratosphere soared more than 65.5 degree Celsius above normal in the aftermath of a storm, according to data captured by NASA's Cassini satellite, which orbits the ringed planet.
A global composite image, constructed using cloud-free night images from a new NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, shows the glow of natural and human-built phenomena across the planet in greater detail than ever before.
Rediff.com takes a look at spacecraft that have successfully made it to Mars.
The rover, Zhurong, named after a god of fire and war in Chinese mythology, landed at the pre-selected area in Utopia Planitia on Mars, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The debris from China's disintegrating Long March rocket entered the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday and reportedly fell into the Indian Ocean area close to the Maldives, the country's space agency said, ending an anxious week as people and the governments wondered where and when the space junk would fall.
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a strange white light dancing across the horizon of Mars and four blobs hovering in the sky, which UFO hunters claim are alien ships monitoring humans' baby steps into the universe.
Two Indian students have won the second place for their 'Design of Transport Aircraft for the Future' sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.R Anusha and S Srinath from the College of Engineering under Anna University, Guindy, Chennai, have won the second place for their Design of Transport Aircraft for the Future. The design was overseen by faculty advisor Dr E Natarajan.
NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the 'habitable zone' around a sun-like star.
The Martian is steeped in decades of NASA's real-life Mars exploration
The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth's surface
Fifteen years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
An investigation board is now studying various scenarios that could cause a breach allowing plasma, that surrounds a spacecraft during re-entry, into the wheel compartment or elsewhere in the wing.
The Indian Space Research Organisation on Saturday said the country's October 28 Mars Orbiter Mission was on schedule, dismissing suggestions that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may not be in a position to offer it deep space network support following the government shutdown in the United States.
This mission will study astronomical phenomena, puts India in select group of nations
Connecting with people is the first step to creating greater awareness for the brand and that in turn, believes ISRO chief K Sivan, will translate into the institution becoming a place that people want to work in.
The day she returns is being christened Sunita Williams Day at NASA.
A 'habitable' earth-like planet, which is orbiting around a sun-like star 600 light years away, has been discovered in our galaxy for the first time, researchers say.
From Asgard's naughtiest imp to Arsene Lupin's biggest worshipper in Paris, Sukanya Verma notes OTT is full of curious options this week.
The Indian-American astronaut will fly the first space capsules built by private companies, SpaceX and Boeing.
Defiant employees from multiple US government agencies are fighting the Trump administration's gag orders on climate change and penchant for "alt facts" with rogue Twitter accounts.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has shown that two of Pluto's moons, Nix and Hydra, wobble unpredictably.
Ahead of his India visit on February 24-25, Trump said that India has not treated his country 'very well' on the trade front and indicated that a 'very big' bilateral deal with New Delhi may not be signed before the American presidential election in November.
Hidden Figures tells us a genuinely inspirational story in obvious fashion, and is buoyed by the performances all around, writes Raja Sen.
Mission Mangal has its heart in place, feels Sukanya Verma.
NASA has completed its MESSENGER mission with expected impact on Mercury's surface.
A collection of some of the best photographs from around the world in the last 24 hours
A joint collaboration between India's Chandrayaan-1 and National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which are orbiting the moon, could turn up evidence for valuable lunar water. Some scientists suspect water ice, which would be a precious resource for future explorers, may be trapped in permanently shadowed craters at the moon's poles. Water ice can be distinguished from other materials by the way its radar echoes vary.
Commercial flights may also help Boeing's bottom line on a rare, fixed-price, government-backed development program.
It is composed of a series of shots taken October 12 by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, as it passed about 83 miles above the lunar crater Compton on the far side of the moon, NASA said.
