computer hackers are said to have held one of uk 's military communications satellite, Skynet , to ransom. This was published in the uk -based newspaper Sunday Business .

russian scientists' attempt to reflect the Sun's light towards dark areas of the Earth floundered when the giant mirror failed. Astronauts aboard the Russian space station Mir were to

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a US $3.5 million deal to a consortium of labs and companies to develop a prototype of a propulsion system that could propel

Three years back, the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope aimed its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 at what seemed to be an empty patch of sky, dubbed the Hubble Deep Field. The results revealed many

a state-of-art monitoring satellite, Ocean Sat irs p-iv, will be launched

Scientists fly rockets with toothpaste like jelly

Docking a space shuttle and detecting tumours NASA s new neural network does both with aplomb

Scientists scan the sky for alien signals with renewed zest

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) says it wants Russia to abandon its Mir space station so it will not be in competition with its international successor.

Lenoid meteor shower, the biggest astronomical non event of 1998, caused hardly any damage to orbiting satellites