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Universe has 70 sextillion stars

First hiker's map of Mars

Tricolour on moon

DTE Coverage: Will India strike gold with Chandrayaan-3?

Chandrayaan-3 is expected to make a soft landing on the Moon in the fourth week of August

James Webb Telescope gives a glimpse of how stars are born

New images by the James Webb Space Telescope will help space scientists better understand what happened during the first million years of the …

Africa has ambitious goals for 2063: plans for outer space hold the key to success

The outer space programme seeks to enable Africa to obtain maximum benefits from space science, technology and applications

Skygazers, it’s time for a super snow moon tonight

Today’s moon will be the biggest and brightest in 2019 as it will be the closest to Earth’s orbit

NASA's Insight mission lands on Mars

After a 300-million-mile journey from Earth over nearly seven months, NASA's InSight spacecraft landed successfully on the surface of Mars on Monday.

2016: the year in space and astronomy

Colliding black holes to exploding spacecraft, 2016 was an incredible year for astrophysics

We've found a new family of stars in the Milky Way that could help us work out how galaxies formed

A new discovery can help determine where all the stars in the universe's galaxies actually come from

Juno's closest flyby past Jupiter on Saturday

There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime mission which will end in February 2018

The super cars are coming

With aerospace technologies set to revolutionise engine and body design, today's cars could become as obsolete as dinosaurs.

A star spender with clipped wings

The ambitious Indian space programme, despite occasional setbacks, has had its share of success. A backgrounder to the programme which is very …

Tapping into the source

These are the days of frenetic crossborder data networking. Electronic cilia have crawled into almost every nook in the world where information …

Ice ice baby

Satellite images revealing vast quantities of ice on Mars rekindle hopes about life existing on the planet

Kalpana Chawla—a mission becomes impossible

In all the media hype, the legacy left behind by the Columbia (STS-107) crew was almost forgotten–a wealth of information gathered from …

US embraces nuclear reactors to power spacecrafts

Thirty years after they were abandoned for good, nuclear reactors are making a fatal comeback in the US spacecrafts. In 2003, the US National …

Scientists uncover sheets of ice buried at Mars’ north pole

Composition of these layers could further shed light on the history of Mars and if it ever had favourable conditions to support life

Ozone hole smaller than 1990s level; scientists study reasons behind trend

NASA records reduction in ozone depletion as compared to 1998-2006 levels

New clues in the search for the oldest galaxies in the universe

Galaxy cluster XLSSC 122 poses a mystery scientiststs are trying to resolve

A real-life deluminator for spotting exoplanets by reflected starlight