Space

NASA to send Expedition 56 members to ISS today, Watch it live here

NASA's astronaut Scott Tingle, astronaut Norishige Kanai from Japan and Russian Space Agency's Anton Shkaplerov, who was also the ISS mission commander returned safely to Earth.

Jun 6, 2018

Days feel longer? Blame the Moon for moving slowly away from Earth

The Moon is moving away from Earth at the rate of about 4 centimetres a year, in 200 million years, this will cause a day on Earth will be about 25 hours long.

Jun 5, 2018

Planet Nine could be a cluster of asteroids sending comets Earth's way

The mysterious Planet Nine - an unseen cosmic body in deep space, tugging and pulling on dwarf planets could be sending comets toward Earth. Did it also cause the extinction of dinosaurs?

Jun 5, 2018

NASA to probe the 'cosmic filter enclosing the Solar System

The Heliosphere covers the solar system in a bubble of protection, keeping interstellar radiation out and protecting the Earth and other planets from cosmic radiation.

Jun 5, 2018

Some dark matter might have weak electrical charge and could soon be detected

Dark matter has never directly been observed because it does not interact with normal matter, but a small portion of it could be electrically charged, meaning it might interact in the electromagnetic field.

Jun 4, 2018

Come aboard my space station, says China and sends invite to all

The China Space Station (CSS) is open to any country, especially developing nations which cannot afford to run its own space program, says China.

May 30, 2018

Astronaut Peggy Whitson's bitter truth about space station toilet: They pack poop with hands

Peggy Whitson revealed the horrific side of the space toilet. Whitson is the only female NASA astronaut who has spent 665 days in the International Space Station.

May 30, 2018

Settling on Mars will be drab, unsexy and filled with questionable ethical decisions

Getting pregnant on Mars presents challenges that are environmental, physical, and ethical unless humans are willing to create a whole new species that can survive there.

May 30, 2018

It is possible to travel through time but building time machine remains elusive as ever

Every single person is travelling through time constantly, one second at a time, so moving forward would only require that we move faster.

May 30, 2018

Remembering 12 astronauts who stepped on Moon

Twelve people have walked on the Moon till now, here is a quick list to remember them by.

May 27, 2018

Life on Mars? Iron-rich Martian rocks near lakes could have hosted life 4 billion years back

If life existed on Mars in the past, and there is a strong likelihood of that being true. The best places to look for life would be inside the iron-rich rocks near ancient lakes, according to scientists.

May 27, 2018

Mars rover Curiosity successfully resumes drilling after remote hackathon by NASA engineers

The dead drilling motor on Mars rover Curiosity was successfully replaced with alternate robotic arms remotely by NASA scientists at JPL and the rover is back in sample collection at Gale Crater

May 26, 2018

Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Elon Musk is 'wrong' on AI

Space X CEO Elon Musk has been a critic of Artificial Intelligence and has asked for strict control of the technology to curb its threat. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, however, says that AI is more good than bad.

May 26, 2018

Do black holes die? Life and death of the most powerful forces in the cosmos

Black holes are not the scary space vacuum cleaners that suck up all matter around them - they are dying stars that have immeasurable amounts of gravity and will all eventually die out.

May 25, 2018

Dinosaur-killing asteroid also triggered a global warming that lasted 100,000 years

The impact created a heat wave so intense that it melted rocks and set off wildfires that stretched across continents, with the increased temperatures on Earth lasting for thousands of years.

May 25, 2018