Washington: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage crashed into the moon on Wednesday. NASA estimated the impact would create a crater 60 feet across and 12 feet deep. The Falcon 9 rocket left Earth in January of this year. It was carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander. The rocket’s upper stage wasn’t…
MS Shanker Every Indian knows that Siachen is the world’s highest battlefield. Few realise that it has claimed more Indian soldiers through its unforgiving weather than through enemy fire. At temperatures plunging below -50°C and at altitudes where oxygen levels are nearly half of those at sea level, Siachen tests not just human endurance, but…
New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Thursday successfully carried out the maiden flight test of Long-Range Surface-to-Air Missile Kusha from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that the successful test flight of Kusha marks an important milestone in Indian defence R&D. “The capability…
By all conventional measures of success, Professor Ashoke Sen should have spent his life in the world’s most celebrated scientific institutions. He had studied at some of the finest centres of learning, worked at America’s premier physics laboratories, won one of the richest prizes in science worth $3 million—nearly three times the Nobel Prize money—and…
Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh) ISRO is targeting seven launches during the current financial year, with the next mission scheduled to lift off within the next two months, ISRO Chairman V Narayanan announced on Saturday. Speaking at a press conference following the historic maiden orbital launch of Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket, Narayanan stated that two satellites are…
Washington: NASA astronaut Anil Menon and two Russian cosmonauts reached the International Space Station to hugs and handshakes in the early hours of Wednesday (India time) on board the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft after a little over three-hour journey. The Roscosmos spacecraft carrying Menon and Russian cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from Baikonur…
New Delhi: India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ghana together host the largest number of cities at risk of extreme heat, with major tourist destinations including Jaipur and international business hubs in the top 50, according to an analysis that has ranked 205 of the world’s largest cities. More than 95 per cent of the most at-risk…
Hyderabad: Eminent geneticist and CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj, was conferred the Padma Shri by President Droupadi Murmu at the Civil Investiture Ceremony-II held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Tuesday. A distinguished scientist with over three decades of service at CCMB, Dr Thangaraj is renowned for…
Our Special Correspondent Hyderabad: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday unveiled an ambitious vision for India’s future security architecture, stating that the “Mission Sudarshan Chakra”, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 2025 Independence Day address, is set to evolve into a comprehensive multi-level missile defence system capable of safeguarding the nation against emerging…
New Delhi: Hot and humid conditions prevailing during India’s monsoon season could extend the duration of uncompensable heat stress of the summer season under a global warming of 2 degrees Celsius, a study has found. Findings published in the journal American Geophysical Union (AGU) Advances highlight a “surge of UHS (uncompensable heat stress) during the…
