NASA’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), a mission to measure the changing height of Earth's ice was launched recently.
The spacecraft lifted off...
Solar energy has long been considered the most sustainable option for replacing our dependence on fossil fuels, but technologies for converting solar energy into...
Union Minister of Petroleum kicked off an innovative initiative in New Delhi on 1st October, 2018, with PSU Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs ,i.e. IOC,...
ISRO is developing green propellants for use in future rocket & satellite propulsion systems. All space faring nations have been investigating green propulsion systems...
ISRO is developing green propellants for use in future rocket & satellite propulsion systems. All space faring nations have been investigating green propulsion systems...
Perovskite solar cells aim to increase the efficiency and lower the cost of solar energy. Perovskite PVs indeed hold promise for high efficiencies, as...
The Indian government is getting more serious about using blockchain technology into the growing digital economy of the country.
Blockchain technology has emerged as the...
Indian Space Agency ISRO successfully launched a PSLV-C40 rocket carrying India's 100th satellite along with 30 others. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV...
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch the first solar mission, Aditya-L1.
Aditya-L1 mission is aimed at studying the Sun from an...
India has deployed its own regional navigational system, namely NavIC comprising of a constellation of seven navigational satellites and associated ground segment for providing...
ISRO and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/ NASA are jointly working on the development of Dual Frequency (L&S band) Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Satellite named...
Scientists used two Australian radio telescopes and several optical telescopes to observe a nearby radio galaxy known as Centaurus A.
As the closest radio galaxy...
A set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up after 37 years without use.
Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is...
European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered a two super-earth planets.
Both planets orbit K2-18, a red-dwarf star located about 111 light years away in the...
A science team in Antarctica is preparing to loft a balloon-borne instrument to collect information on cosmic rays, high-energy particles from beyond the solar...
Aalto University researchers have developed a measurement technique called Scanning Droplet Adhesion Microscopy (SDAM) to understand and characterize the wetting properties of superhydrophobic materials.
This...
Embryo transfer technology (ETT) has revolutionized the breeding strategies in Bovines as a tool to optimize the genetic improvement in cattle.
Department of Animal husbandry,...
A suitcase-sized NASA radar instrument, that can detect heartbeats, is helping disaster relief workers save lives of people trapped under rubble after a 7.1...
NASA’s USD 3.9 billion Cassini spacecraft ended its 20-year-long groundbreaking journey with a fiery plunge into the Saturn’s crushing atmosphere, beaming back never-before-seen images...
Spaceborne Computer intends to run a year-long experiment of high performance commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system on the International Space Station (ISS).
During high radiation...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope that is part of NASA's Next Generation Space Telescope program, developed in coordination between...
Scientists have conducted an investigation into a fatal outbreak of pneumonia in the Hospital of Zhejiang University in China.
The causative agent of these five...
The forty first flight of India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C39) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota, was unsuccessful.
PSLV-C39 had a normal lift-off...
The Research Councils viz Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Science (CCRAS), Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM), Central Council for Research...
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has deployed an indigenous regional positioning system named as “Navigation with Indian Constellation” (NavIC).
It consists of seven satellites in...
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) - Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has been engaged in R&D work on the technology of preservation and hygienization...
Plastic can be converted into petrol, diesel and other hydrocarbons. CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad has developed a catalyst that can be...
The currently operational 42 satellites are being utilised to meet the requirements of resources monitoring, infrastructure planning, enabling weather forecasting, disaster management support, location...
Research that started aboard balloons a century ago soon culminated into a three-year stint aboard the International Space Station as scientists work on solving...
A new type of micropropulsion system for miniature satellites called CubeSats uses an innovative design of tiny nozzles that release precise bursts of water...
A research team at the University of Central Florida has demonstrated the fastest light pulse ever developed, a 53-attosecond X-ray flash.
Team beat its own record...
Scientists are making use of discarded animal organs by turning them into origami. A team of researchers at Northwestern University created the paper cranes...
Recently, an international team of astronomers have identified a very early, primordial asteroid family by correlating the size of its members and how far...
Biofilm is an association of micro-organisms in which microbial cells adhere to each other on a living or non-living surfaces within a self-produced matrix...
Scientists have succeeded in developing precisely controlled alloy nanoparticles 'multimetallic nanoclusters (MNCs)' made of three metals: copper, platinum, and gold.
They also discovered that MNCs...
Astronomers team led by Matt Nicholl from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge have found an extraordinarily bright supernova "SN 2017egm" in a...
ISRO and NASA are working towards realisation of NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission by 2021. In the mission, NASA is responsible for development...
U.S. scientists from Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) have succeeded in altering the genes of a human embryo to correct a disease-causing mutation.
Scientists...
The Indian Venusian orbiter mission is a proposed orbiter to Venus by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to study the atmosphere of Venus....
Union Minister of Science & Technology Dr. Harshvardhan launched an app “India Quake” on the occasion of Foundation Day of Ministry of Earth Sciences...
During the last three years (June 2014 to June 2017), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully accomplished 41 missions, which includes 19 launch...
The use of radiation in agriculture has resulted in developing improved varieties of seeds resulting in increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of...
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) has been carrying out a comprehensive R&D on sodium cooled fast breeder reactor technology for the past...
“CRISPR” (pronounced “crisper”) stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, which are the hallmark of a bacterial defense system which forms the basis...
Scientists from University of Cambridge in the U.K have discovered the smallest star in the universe. It is called EBLM J0555-57Ab.
It is located about...
Indian astronomers from Pune-based Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) has discovered an extremely large supercluster of galaxies — as big as...
The 1000 Genomes Project (abbreviated as 1KGP), launched in January 2008, was an international research effort to establish by far the most detailed catalogue...
The non-profit consortium, GenomeAsia 100K, announced an ambitious plan to sequence 100,000 individuals. It is intended to initially include populations from 12 South Asian...
Scientists have detected large quantities of methanol molecules around Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
The discovery was made by the Cassini spacecraft, which has since flown through...
Recently, a team of scientists from the University of Georgia, the University of California, Santa Barbara and Sea Education Association, launched the first global...
The Government has accorded administrative approval and financial sanction for construction of 10 indigenous 700 MW Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRs) in fleet mode.
The...
NASA is developing the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), first-ever mission that will deflect a near-Earth asteroid.
DART would be NASA’s first mission to demonstrate...
The Terrier Malemute is a two-stage American sounding rocket typically used for smaller payloads (less than 180 kg ).
Both the Terrier first stage and...
The SCE-200 is an Indian liquid-fuel rocket engine burning LOX and kerosene in a oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle.
It is being developed by the Liquid...
China has recently declared a plan to send mini-ecosystems to the Moon in 2018.
Chongqing University in China has developed a 3-kilogramme mini-ecosystem that will be sent...
Scientists has presented the first whole genome sequence and analyses of Red Bat (Myotis rufoniger).
It is one of the most well-known and iconic protected wild...
The indigenously developed newborn hearing screening device – SOHUM was formally launched in New Delhi.
The newborn hearing screening device developed by School of International...
The world’s first hybrid “aeroboat” capable of travelling on land, water, snow and sand has been launched recently in Moscow, Russia.
It has been built by...
Recently, scientists have discovered KELT-9b, the hottest known planet located 650 light years from Earth.
The planet is so close to the star that its...
Gravitational-wave astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy which aims to use gravitational waves (minute distortions of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of...
Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) also known as Insight is a Chinese X-ray space observatory, launched on June 15, 2017 to observe black holes,...
Data from NASA’s Curiosity rover mission found that the lake in Mars’ Gale Crater was stratified which means that the water exhibited sharp chemical or...
The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is a proposed three-satellite regional time transfer system and the satellite-based augmentation system for the Global Positioning System that...
The galaxy, MACS2129-1, is described as a dead-disk galaxy. Astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that...
Recently Juno spacecraft captured the images of planet jupiter. Images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their...
The word spintronics—short for spin electronics—was coined in the 1990s to describe devices that take advantage of “spin,” a quantum-mechanical property of an electron...
The Lunar Palace 365 experiment was launched by Beihang's Lunar Palace research team in Lunar Palace 1, a simulated space cabin for bio-regenerative life-support...
Scientists in Australia have developed the world's first golden-orange fleshed bananas rich in Vitamin A.
The decade-long research, led by Distinguished Professor James Dale, involved...
India's latest communication satellite GSAT-17 was launched using the European Ariane 5 Launch Vehicle from Kourou, French Guiana.
The 3477 kg GSAT-17 carries communication payloads...
LIDAR—Light Detection and Ranging—is a remote sensing method used to examine the surface of the Earth.
Lidar (also called LIDAR, LiDAR, and LADAR) is a...
NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves. As was the case with the first two detections, the...
An astrophysics researcher has identified the possible compositions of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Using thousands of numerical simulations to identify the...
NASA launched the world’s smallest satellite, built by 18-year old Indian Tamil Nadu student Rifath Sharook and his team.
Named as Kalamsat, after former President...
ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C38 successfully launched the 712 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 30 co-passenger satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre...
The first developmental flight (GSLV MkIII-D1) of India's heavy lift launch vehicle GSLV Mk-III was successfully conducted on June 05, 2017 from Satish Dhawan...
Scientists have discovered a new moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, that resides in the frigid outskirts in our solar system.
The combined power...
A team of scientists from IIT-Bombay has developed India’s first infrared sensors for thermal imaging.
Thermal imaging is a method of improving visibility of objects...
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory and the world's largest optical/near-infrared extremely large telescope now under construction.
Part of the European Southern...
