Chandrayaan-3 lander Vikram ‘deboosts’ or slows down to reach orbit closest to the moon

New Delhi: India’s third moon mission Chandrayaan-3’s lander Vikram has successfully undergone a “deboosting” operation, space…

Chandrayaan-3’s lander module Vikram separates from spacecraft, prepares for moon touchdown

New Delhi: India’s ambitious third moon mission Chandrayaan-3 achieved another feat Thursday when its lander Vikram…

Though launched after India’s Chandrayaan-3, why Russia’s Luna-25 rocket will land on moon first

Bengaluru: Almost a month after India’s Chandrayaan-3 was sent to the moon on 14 July, Russia…

Russia launches first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years in race to find water

Moscow: Russia launched its first moon-landing spacecraft in 47 years on Friday in a bid to…

Have Koreans found ‘room-temp superconductor’? Why one of physics’ greatest quests is back in news

A superconductor free from these conditions could, for example, make electricity transmission more efficient — without…

Chandrayaan-3 successfully enters lunar orbit

New Delhi: The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, which covered about two-thirds of the distance to the Moon since…

Communication with space-probe Voyager 2 lost after NASA sends wrong command

Bengaluru: NASA has lost all communication with space-probe mission Voyager 2 after mistakenly sending a command…

UNESCO recommends to take Great Barrier Reef off danger list, still warns of ‘serious threat’

Sydney: A UNESCO heritage committee on Tuesday stopped short of listing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef as…

New Alzheimer’s drugs may be more beneficial to American whites than Blacks, say experts

Prospective Black volunteers with early disease symptoms did not have enough amyloid in their brain to…

ISRO set to launch Singaporean DS-SAR Earth observation satellite & six private ones aboard PSLV

Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will Sunday launch the Israel-built Singaporean satellite DS-SAR, along…