Captain Cernan leaves planet forever, 44 years after his final walk on moon

Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan was the commander of Apollo 17, the final manned lunar landing

Light information

Optic fibres enable transmission of information at the speed of light and without any interference

Space opera

After years of pranged possibilities and piggyback rides, India has attained independent satellite launch capability

Collision in space

At least 2 Indian planetaria are gearing up for a once-in-a-lifetime ogle at Jupiter as it is strafed by a comet shower

In search of gravitational waves

Two projects are under way to detect an elusive phenomenon that are thought to be produced by violent events in outer space

Spin-off to space

The billion-dollar Star Wars programme lies abandoned, but the technology will now be used to combat asteroids

Mission: Planet Earth

NASA scientists have developed a new space-based imager with very high resolution which will help foresters, farmers and geologists, and lay the …

From Russia with love

Exchange of technology between Russia and the West is opening up new horizons in the aerospace industry

Spy in the sky

A few hundred dollars is all you need to "borrow" the services of world's first commercial spy satellite

In Focus

Discovery returns

The space shuttle has brought back vital data about ozone depletion

World's largest telescope

Space travails

A Japanese satellite fails in space resulting in the loss of vital climate data

Design trouble

Gliding back home

'Gliding lifeboats' can bring astronauts back to earth in case the space station fails

Cluster formation

Space crop

Never-ending days

Newton discredited

Scientists question the theory of gravity as spacecraft behave in a bizarre way

ET's phone on sale

Heat-tolerant bacteria that survived meteorite impact

The meteorite was made of a highly dense material and weighed 2.26 kilogrammes

Beaming onto children

Into space market

No small matter

A persevering physicist is well an his way to uncovering the enigma of antimatter

Shaking hands in air