After stripping it of planet status in 2006, some astronomers want to reclassify it once again, notes Devangshu Datta. Photograph: NASA/APL/SwRI via Getty Images Pluto or 134340 MPC, as it's......
Photograph: Kind courtesy @NASA/Twitter Mankind's first mission to 'touch' the Sun may have panned out differently had it not been for Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,......
The ISRO is looking at Mangalyaan-2, a follow-on mission to Mars, and launching two satellites that would look at Venus and explore asteroids.T E Narasimhan and Raghu Krishnan report. India is......
The new organism -- Solibacillus kalamii -- was found on the filters of the International Space Station, reports Pallava Bagla. In great news for India, scientists at the National Aeronautics and......
National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists on Thursday released new global maps of Earth at night, providing the clearest yet composite view of the patterns of human settlement across......
President Barack Obama has proposed a five-year budgetary freeze on NASA's spending keeping it at $18.7 billion levels annually till 2016.But NASA's administrator Charles Bolden told reporters that......
World is gearing up for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference scheduled in Copenhagen from November 30 to December 11. A Copenhagen Protocol is expected to evolve as......