Defense minister Rajnath Singh interacts with US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during the fourth US-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue at the State Department, in Washington, DC. (PTI photo)NEW DELHI: From situational awareness high up in space to deep underwater domain awareness, with cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, counter-drone technology, stepped-up military engagements, exercises and logistics in between, India…Continue Reading

The debris created by India’s anti-satellite test in March 2019 seems to have all decayed or disintegrated, and India’s contribution to space debris has fallen to the lowest levels in the last four years, latest data shows. There are thousands of big and small unwanted objects floating in the space — out-of-operation satellites and its…Continue Reading

Eying for close cooperation in space and pharma sectors, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón will reach India on Wednesday for a three-day India visit. This is the first visit of Mexico’s FM to India during which he will hold talks with External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Wednesday evening. A release from India’s Ministry…Continue Reading

Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the Big Bang —…Continue Reading

NEW DELHI: North India’s first big space centre and the country’s second-of-its-kind space training institute after the Thiruvananthapuram hub was inaugurated in Jammu on Saturday. While launching the Satish Dhawan Centre for Space Sciences on the premises of the Central University of Jammu, space minister Jitendra Singh called the move a “historic decision” and said…Continue Reading

The James Webb Space Telescope

What will the next-gen Webb telescope unveil? How is it different from Hubble? What will it enable us to see in the farthest reaches of the universe? The story so far: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), hurled into space by the Ariane 5 rocket from European Space Agency’s Spaceport in French Guiana, South America,…Continue Reading

From Space, Earth Looks Like A Diwali Celebration Every Single Night

The universe is full of visual marvels, including our planet Earth when viewed from space. A giant space rock, Earth is the only planet in our solar system that can currently harbour life. Ever wondered what night passing over Earth looks like from space? We got you covered. Since today is Diwali, it’s fair to suggest that…Continue Reading