2021-01-22 - PIB-Delphi

India’s Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope Spots Rare UV-bright Stars

India’s first multi-wavelength space satellite, AstroSat’s Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope spots rare ultraviolet-bright stars in a massive intriguing cosmic dinosaur in the Milky Way...

2020-12-31 - PIB Delhi

India & Bhutan Sign MoU on Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

The Union Cabinet approved MoU between India and Bhutan on Cooperation in the peaceful users of outer space signed on November 19, 2020 by both sides at Bangalore/Thimpu and exchanged...

2020-12-21 - Anne-Françoise Pelé

International Space Station: Humanity’s Home for 20 years

The International Space Station (ISS) has been humanity’s home away from home for the past 20 years — a home for cooperation among the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and Europe, and a home for fundamental scientific research...

2020-12-11 - TV Venkateswaran

All You Want to Know About the ‘Great Conjunction’

As the speed at which one planet appears to move in the sky are not same, once in a while, the fast-moving one will catch up with the relatively slow-moving planet in the sky. Such events are called 'conjunction'. When the jumbo planets, Jupiter and Saturn come close to each other, it is called as 'Great Conjunction'.

2020-11-11 - PIB Delhi

Indian Astronomers Collaborated with Nobel Laureate on TMT Project

The Thirty-meter telescope (TMT) project is an international partnership between CalTech, Universities of California, Canada, Japan, China, and India...

2020-11-05 - PIB Delhi

India, Spain to Sign MoU to Develop Scientific and Technical Collaborations in Astronomy

The Union Cabine approves signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between India and Spain to develop scientific and technical collaborations in astronomy...

2020-10-20 - Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio

Hover-in-place Drones Powered Through High-Voltage Tether

To enable a thinner and lighter tether, power must be delivered from the host ship to the drone at very high voltage and low current. This allows greater mobility and heavier aircraft payloads, which leads to improved communications and surveillance.

2020-10-14 - India Science Wire

‘Dare to Dream 2.0’ to Promote Innovators and Startups

The ‘Dare to Dream 2.0’ is an open challenge to promote the innovators and startups for innovations in defence and aerospace sector.

2020-09-17 - PIB Delhi

IIA Scientists Find New Model to Probe How Black Holes Rip Apart Starts

Scientists from Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have found a new way to probe into supermassive black holes – detecting their properties like mass and spin by observing how they rip apart stars...

2020-08-20 - PIB Delhi

NRDC and NAL Join Forces to Incubate Aerospace Engineering Startups

NRDC and CSIR-NAL joined hands to establish an Innovation cum Incubation Centre with external private funding, to promote India's startups in the emerging aerospace technologies...