Scientist who called mysterious Oumuamua object alien probe explains why

Abraham Loeb, one of the Harvard scientists who came up with this theory, talks about this extraordinary conclusion and the media frenzy it generated

10 things to know about NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter

With the Juno spacecraft successfully in place in the orbit of the largest planet of our solar system, we bring you quick facts about the …

Cutting-edge tech at low cost behind India’s first private rocket

Down To Earth catches up with Pawan Kr Chandana, co-founder of Skyroot Aerospace, whose Vikram-S became the first privately made rocket to …

Mars early water may be trapped in its crust: Scientists

The new findings challenge the prevalent theory that water from the Red Planet escaped into space

Human trials on Earth are the key to how we will survive on Mars

What's the best way to find out how people will cope with the journey to Mars and life on another planet? Lock a test crew up for a year in a …

Five space exploration missions to look out for in 2023

Jupiter's icy moons, asteroid exploration on the cards

NASA offers insight on supernova that may have been alluded to in ‘Hamlet’

450-year-old supernova’s shockwave still apparent; was visible to humans on Earth in 1572  

Cassini dives into Saturn

The Cassini-Huygens probe has enabled scientists analyse the surface and atmosphere of some of Saturn's mysterious moons

James Webb gets a close look at the Red Planet for the first time

Perseverance rover collects key rock samples, while Mars shows signatures of water, carbon dioxide in atmosphere 

Where did Chandrayaan-1 leave us?

Before India achieves the feat of soft landing on the Moon, let’s look at what the first mission attained and how the second will be different

How much life has ever existed on Earth?

A new study has looked at big questions like how much life will ever exist on Earth 

How India’s lunar landing shapes future of space exploration, geopolitics — an expert explains

The question is, how will the rival super-space powers progress their ambitions?

Outer space: Rwanda & Nigeria sign an accord for more responsible exploration — why this matters

It also enables the countries to participate in events where decisions on outer space are made

Are black holes time machines? Yes, but there’s a catch

Black hole is an extremely massive object that is typically formed when a dying star collapses in on itself

ISRO’s new space company gets its first order

American space rideshare company Spaceflight bought payload slot on the first commercial launch of ISRO’s newest rocket, Small Satellite …

Chandrayaan-2 in orbit, now focus on Sept 7 moon landing

The satellite will, in the next 23 days, burn its internal thrusters six times raising its height

Space probe LISA Pathfinder lifts off

LISA Pathfinder will hunt for gravitational waves which were first proposed by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity

World eagerly awaits New Horizons’ flyby past Pluto

Scientists are eager to collect data on the dwarf planet’s chemical and atmospheric makeup using the Ralph spectrometer 

Simply Put: Woman on the moon

The flawed universe

Experiments support a theory that states galaxies originated in cosmic defects

Satellite steering

Eternal launcher

Kitchenware in orbit

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Traffic jam up there

Orbiting space junk poses a serious threat to future space exploration