Space & Beyond

MIAMI (TIP): After four failed bids SpaceX finally stuck the landing, powering the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket onto an ocean platform where it touched down upright after launching cargo to space. Images […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Astronomers have observed the most luminous galaxies ever seen in the universe —objects so bright that the researchers have taken to calling them “outrageously luminous”. Researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst in the […]

Scientists are about to learn exactly what spending a year in space does to a person, after two astronauts returned from a 340 day trip to the International Space Station. Commander Scott Kelly will be of […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): A total solar eclipse will occur on March 9 but will be seen as a partial solar eclipse at sunrise from most places in India except from north-west and western parts of […]

LONDON (TIP): Scientists have discovered five new Jupiter-like planets that are similar in characteristics to our solar system’s biggest planet and orbit very close to their host stars. Researchers from Keele University in UK used […]

The detection of spacetime ripples produced by a cataclysmic collision of two black holes is the first major discovery of the new field of gravitational-wave astronomy. In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have said that they […]

A study by an international team from Europe and the US led by an Indian planetary scientist has resolved one of the mysteries that baffled astronomers. Astronomical studies have shown that several small bodies – […]

Britain’s first astronaut on a space mission, Major Tim Peake, accidentally called the wrong number when trying to call home from space. Major Peake quickly took to Twitter to insist that the incident was not a […]

PARIS (TIP): Planet Earth could be at higher risk of a space rock impact than widely thought, according to astronomers who today suggested keeping a closer eye on distant giant comets. Most studies of potential […]

CHENNAI: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has added another country to its client list for commercial satellite launches after Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C29) put in orbit six Singapore satellites on Wednesday. Antrix Corporation, the […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Researchers have found how water ions escape from the Saturn’s environment after locating a point from where the ions exhaust out of the planet’s atmosphere. Daniel Reisenfeld, a professor at the University of Montana in […]

TOKYO (TIP): Japan‘s space agency said on Wednesday its “Akatsuki” probe had successfully entered into orbit around Venus after an initial attempt at reaching the second planet from the sun failed five years ago. The […]

WASHINGTON (TIP): Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling towards the planet and is likely to be shredded into pieces that will be strewn about the red planet in a ring like those encircling Saturn […]

NEW YORK (TIP): Mars has acid fog which eats away rocks and is caused by volcanic eruptions on the red planet, a new study suggests. A planetary scientist has found how acidic vapours may have […]