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Countries represented include China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Russia and the United States. (Representational Image)

What if an Asteroid was about to hit Earth? Scientists intrigued

Astronomers estimate a one percent risk the space rock will collide with our planet on April 27, 2027. What should we...

30 April 2019 12:16 PM IST

The government has started preparing to announce a drought in the state.

Tech tool aims to predict global water conflicts before they happen

The system uses data from NASA and European Space Agency satellites that monitor water resources around the world.

15 Jun 2019 4:28 PM IST

Oxygen and metal from lunar regolith. (Photo: University of Glasgow)

Prototype plant can churn moondust to produce oxygen

ESA researchers aim to build a version of the oxygen-producing system that could be taken to the Moon.

21 Jan 2020 7:04 AM IST

A view captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission of the A-76 iceberg off the Ronne Ice Shelf, in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica taken on March 9, 2021 - combined with a graphic of the Spanish island of Majorca for scale. - An iceberg the size of the island of Majorca has broken off from the Ronne ice pack in Antarctica, making it the largest iceberg in existence, according to images from a European Copernicus satellite, the European Space Agency said on May 20, 2021. (Photo by Handout / EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY / AFP)

World's largest iceberg breaks off Antarctica: European Space Agency

The iceberg is around 170 kms long and 25 kms wide, with an area of 4,320 square kms, slightly larger than the Spanish...

20 May 2021 2:33 PM IST

Dr. K Sivan in a virtual meeting with Dr. Josef Aschbacher, Director General, European Space Agency. (Photo: Twitter/@isro)

ISRO to take cooperation with European, Israeli space agencies to...

An ISRO-ESA Arrangement was signed recently

1 Aug 2021 9:58 AM IST

The satellites, coded 30th and 31st in the BDS, entered the orbit more than three hours after the launch.

Deciding who can access satellite data

In fact, data from more than half of all unclassified government Earth observing satellites launched between 1957 and...

17 May 2018 2:10 AM IST

Stephen Hawking said he was particularly concerned about Mr Trumps environment policy.

Stephen Hawking's voice to be beamed into space at final send-off

The world's most recognisable scientist died in March aged 76 after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the...

15 Jun 2018 3:39 PM IST

It has already docked with the International Space Station and the tests are expected to begin in the next few weeks. (Photo: Surrey Space Centre)

European space agency launches space junk collector from ISS

The 100kg spacecraft has been deployed from ISS to conduct several experiments regarding space junk cleanup.

26 Jun 2018 8:39 PM IST

This illustration provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover, bottom, landing on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars, will search for signs of life

The touchdown of the rover marks an ambitious first step in the effort to collect Mars samples and return them to Earth,...

19 Feb 2021 1:24 PM IST

An European Space Agency image shows the Millennium Tower in San Francisco on the base of modified Copernicus Sentinel satellite data. The colored dots represent targets observed by the radar. (Photo: AP)

Leaning San Francisco tower is sinking faster

It has sunk about 16 inches into landfill and is tilting several inches to the northwest.

30 Nov 2016 2:49 AM IST

The elements that make stars over millions of years ago help make up most of the body with over two dozen elements in the body including sulphur and phosphorous. (Photo: Pixabay)

The fastest stars in the Milky Way might not actually be from this...

A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy are in fact runaways from a much smaller...

6 July 2017 10:38 AM IST

Last year, a tiny piece of debris punched a gaping hole in the solar panel of Copernicus Sentinel-1A, an observation satellite operated by the European Space Agency, or ESA.

Space needs some cleaning from man-made debris

A flurry of upcoming satellite constellations from private companies such as SpaceX, Google and Arlington, OneWeb can...

22 April 2017 12:24 PM IST