New Delhi: The Planning Commission has shown the green light to the Rs 12,400-crore manned space mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scheduled for launch by 2015.
Chicago: The use of crop-based biofuels could speed up rather than slow down global warming by fueling the destruction of rainforests, scientists warned.
Cape Canaveral/Moscow: After the first high-speed impact between two intact satellites, a spokesman for Russian civilian space agency Roscosmos, Alexander Vorobyev, said,
Bangalore: As a prelude to a manned moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is working towards a maiden manned Indian space mission vehicle that can carry three astronauts for seven days in a near earth orbit, ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said at an international aerospace conference here on Monday.
A European satellite has discovered the smallest planet outside of our solar system, which is twice as large as earth. The planet is believed to be composed of rock and water, and takes 20 hours to orbit its host star, the shortest orbital period of all exoplanets found so far.
Tehran: Iran said it had launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time on Tuesday, a move likely to worry Israel and western powers further about Tehran
Iran said Tuesday that it had launched its first domestically produced satellite, a move that has prompted concerns in the United States and other nations about Iranian nuclear ambitions and its ability to deploy long-range ballistic missiles.
Washington: Astronauts who spend months in space tend to lose bone strength, making them increasingly vulnerable to fractures in later life.
Universities of California (UC) Irvine and San Francisco evaluated 13 astronauts who spent four to six months on the International Space Station and found that, on average, their hipbone strength decreased by 14%.
