A moon rush is hotting up, with India, China and Japan devising substantial space exploration programmes to compete with the big players the us and European Union. The frantic activity centred on the moon has been triggered

Harvest order: The Supreme Court recently issued notices to the Union and the state governments, urging them to conserve rainwater. The move came in response to a petition filed by Tap-Rejuvenate

An unmanned supersonic jet has startled the world with a flight speed seven times more than that of sound (Mach 7). The us' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) successfully tested

Saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system. With a colourful ring system surrounding the planet, it is highly attractive. Only brief observations, using telescopes, Pioneer-11, Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 in situ recorders have been made. Comparatively impressive details of Saturn have already been obtained. A space mission named Cassini-Huygens is on its way to explore Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, which is slightly smaller than our earth.

The European Space Agency (esa) claims that its Mars orbiter has detected direct evidence of water in the form of ice on the planet's surface. According to esa scientists, the discovery is based on