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This image made available by NASA shows the planet Mars. This composite photo was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s. The attraction is sure to grow on Monday, November 26 with the arrival of a NASA lander named InSight. (NASA via AP, File)

NASA's InSight lander 'hears' wind on Mars

Two sensors picked up the vibrations: an air pressure sensor inside the lander and a seismometer on the lander's deck

8 Dec 2018 10:42 AM IST

The moon as viewed by Chandrayaan-Is camera from a distance of 3,11,200 km on November 4. (Photo: ISRO)

China launches probe to explore dark side of Moon

Advancing China's space programme has been a priority of its leaders.

8 Dec 2018 10:29 AM IST

The murky case threw the spotlight on Thailands then unregulated rent-a-womb industry. (Photo: Pixabay)

World's first baby born via womb transplant from dead donor

Dani Ejzenberg, a doctor at Brazil's Sao Paulo University hospital, led the research.

6 Dec 2018 10:00 AM IST

Scientists believe that asteroids and comets crashing into early Earth delivered organic compounds and water that seeded the planet for life. (Photo: NASA)

NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat

Osiris-Rex embarked on NASA's unprecedented seven-year mission to conduct a close-up survey of the asteroid Bennu.

5 Dec 2018 2:55 PM IST

The current norm for receiving a womb transplant is that the organ would come from a live family member willing to donate it. (Representational Photo: Pixabay)

World's first baby born via womb transplant from dead donor

The case involved connecting veins from the donor uterus with the recipient's veins as well as linking arteries and...

5 Dec 2018 2:45 PM IST

A Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. The Falcon Heavy, has three first-stage boosters, strapped together with 27 engines in all.

SpaceX launches biggest US 'rideshare' mission with 64 satellites

The Falcon 9 blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 10:34 a.m.

4 Dec 2018 11:13 AM IST

The US plan, the paper said, involves privatising the ISS, a low-orbit space station piloted by the US space agency NASA and developed jointly with its Russian counterpart.

Russia launches first manned voyage to ISS since rocket accident

The Soyuz lifted off at 1131 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

4 Dec 2018 11:11 AM IST

JAXA, in a statement, claimed that a kilometer-wide diamond-shaped space rock is rich in water and organic materials. (Photo: ANI)

NASA deep space probe reaches asteroid deemed potential Earth threat

Scientists estimate there is a one-in-2,700 chance of the asteroid slamming into Earth 166 years from now.

4 Dec 2018 11:09 AM IST

U.S. astronaut Anne McClain, centre, Russian cosmonaut Å¾leg Kononenko, bottom, and CSA astronaut David Saint Jacques during the rocket launch. (Photo: AP)

Astronauts blast off to International Space Station in Russian-made...

Capsule successfully launched into orbit, says Roscomos.

4 Dec 2018 1:14 AM IST

US National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins called Hes experiment â€œa misadventure of a major sortâ€. (Photo: AP)

Could anyone have stopped gene-edited babies experiment?

The young scientist, He Jiankui, saw the power of this tool, called CRISPR, to transform genes.

3 Dec 2018 10:54 AM IST

The European-Russian ExoMars also will sniff out possible past life. (Photo: AP)

Planet Earth working on 3 Mars landers to follow InSight

NASA's InSight spacecraft touched down on the sweeping, red equatorial plains Monday, less than 400 miles from...

3 Dec 2018 9:44 AM IST

InSight was engineered to operate on a surface with an inclination up to 15 degrees. (Representational image)

NASA's Martian quake sensor InSight lands at slight angle

The $993 million lander, a lava plain for a two-year mission aimed at better understanding how Earth's neighboring...

2 Dec 2018 1:36 PM IST