The solar-powered spacecraft which left Earth five years ago finally reached its destination and entered into Jupiter's orbit.
All progress in space should excite us and encourage us to be optimists about a better future for our planet and all of us, asserts Aakar Patel.
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India's maiden mission to Mars has traversed beyond the sphere of influence of Earth extending about 9,25,000 km in its 10-month long voyage to the red planet.
The further away and the more massive the planet is, the higher the chance that the solar system will experience a violent future.
Dressed in Indian designer outfits, the singer shot for the cover of Vogue India.
20 children at the Holy Name High School can't contain their excitement as they get set for a meeting with the American president.
Questions that the state had come to recognise over time but consistently delayed treating seriously because doing so requires an overhaul of perspective and lifestyle, notes Shyam G Menon.
The entire process being autonomous when the lander has to fire its engines at the right times and altitudes, use the right amount of fuel, and scan of the lunar surface for any obstacles or hills or craters before finally touching down.
Mankind is draining the earth's resources so quickly that the globe would be bled dry before the end of the century at this rate, a new report has revealed.
Neglect in protecting our heritage of natural resources could prove extremely harmful for the human race and for all species that share common space on planet earth," Pachauri, the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said in his speech after receiving the prestigious Nobel Peace prize on behalf of the panel, along with former United States vice president Al Gore from Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf.
Beginning March 22, rediff.com will bring you exclusive videos of the actress' new movie, Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai.
Biden praised India's Covid vaccination efforts.
Hard to believe that some of these surreal places do exist.
WALL-E itself is far more than a simple piece of mindless entertainment. With its beautifully rendered world and cheerfully choreographed sequences, it does serve its primary purpose of entertaining, but for those willing to burrow below the surface it offers so much more.
The presence of phosphine in Venus's thick atmosphere has revived the age-old question: Are we alone?
India's first solar mission, if successful, will showcase ISRO's ability to explore the cosmos, explains Kumar Abishek.
Four years after it broke many hearts, Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan is all set to soar towards the moon in its third expedition on Friday in an attempt to put the country in an elite club of nations that accomplished lunar missions with a soft landing.
The Real Madrid forward apologises after Real Madrid dumped out of King's Cup by Atletico Madrid.
'The Weather Channel argues that India faces the gravest challenge: Climate change-induced health vulnerability.' 'This is an issue often neglected, alerts Claude Arpi: "Prolonged summers, unpredictable rains, floods, droughts, and rising sea levels are the harsh realities of climate change in the country. These factors increase the frequency and severity of illnesses, pushing people into poverty, and forcing migration".'
Meet Sini Shetty who will represent India at the 71st Miss World beauty pageant on March 9.
Movie folk mark World Environment Day by inspirational messages and useful information.
According to astronomers, the Earth will undoubtedly have a front row seat when the dying red super-giant star, called Betelgeuse, finally blows itself into oblivion.
The world's callous attitude towards the environment could result in the destruction of the human race says The United Nations Environment Progamme's GEO-4 report.
While NASA might spend millions to take snaps of the Earth, a teenager in the UK has captured stunning images of the planet by floating a second-hand camera worth 30 pounds (Rs 2,657) in to space using a balloon.
The spacecraft will now prepare for separation of the lander module -- comprising the lander and rover -- from the propulsion module.
Lander Module of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft comprising the lander and rover has successfully separated from the Propulsion Module, Indian Space Research Organisation said on Thursday.
Chandrayaan 3 follows the Chandrayaan 2 mission which did not achieve the desired soft landing on the surface of the moon in 2019, disappointing the scientists.
The ongoing experiments on Moon, Mars and elsewhere could translate into better crop yields and hardier plants that could thrive in inhospitable parts of the world, says Devangshu Datta.
"Thanks for flying @SpaceX." Current Location: Planet Earth. A 2:48pm ET, @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug splashed down, marking the first splashdown of an American crew spacecraft in 45 years. #LaunchAmerica," NASA said in a tweet earlier.
The earth's temperature is higher than it has been in the last 11,300 years, and is rising faster than ever, scientists have found. Using data from 73 sites around the world, scientists reconstructed earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age, revealing that the planet today is warmer than it has been during 70 to 80 per cent of the time over the last 11,300 years.
Pricing can help prioritise the best use of conservation efforts and funding
A solar 'megastorm', expected to hit Earth in the near future, could knock out the planet's communication satellites, cause power cuts and disrupt crucial navigation aids and aircraft avionics, experts have warned.
'We are locked down as there is hope that we will return to some normalcy, we are all confined to our homes, we all have hope in future, we will have to anticipate what is coming ahead of us, we will be required to be mentally switched on as anything can happen.'
How ITC plans to dominate the ready-to-eat snack market.
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.
A strong follow-up solar flare, which cropped up on Friday, just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection seen in almost a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch to Earth's magnetic field even though it was targetted away from our planet, a new study including Indian origin scientist has revealed.
John Nelson, a GIS analyst with Michigan-based IDV Solutions, created this visualisation using cloudless images from NASA's Visible Earth team.
Between April 25 and May 2, India received 38,885 fire alerts.
Brown dwarfs are thought to be the missing link between planets and stars, with masses up to 80 times that of Jupiter.
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