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Electric car maker Teslas CEO Elon Musk gives the opening keynote at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett, File)

Musk shakes up SpaceX in race to make satellite launch window

Musk had fired at least seven members of the program's senior management team at the Redmond.

31 Oct 2018 4:41 PM IST

The pieces - a basalt fragment, similar to most of the Earths volcanic rock, and bits of surface debris known as regolith - are being sold by an unidentified private American collector who purchased them in 1993. (Photo: Sothbebys)

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach USD 1 million at NY auction

Last year Sotheby's sold a zippered bag stamped with the words Lunar Sample Return laced with moon dust.

31 Oct 2018 2:51 PM IST

Other documents, an invitation for a reception for Time Travellers as well as a motorised wheelchair Hawking used, are also being sold in the Oct. 31 - Nov. 8 online auction. (Photo: Hawking.org.uk)

Stephen Hawking's thesis, wheelchair heading for auction

Also up for sale is a copy of Hawking's best-selling book A Brief History of Time signed with his thumb print.

31 Oct 2018 2:17 PM IST

The telescope laid bare the diversity of planets that reside in our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA retires its planet hunter, the Kepler space telescope

Currently orbiting the sun 94 million miles (156 million km) from Earth, the spacecraft will drift further from our...

31 Oct 2018 10:27 AM IST

A Russian Soyuz-2 booster rocket takes off from the Plesetsk launch facility in northwestern Russia. (Photo: AP)

Europe backs own space launchers amid growing competition

The move is a response to the US government's decision to award lucrative launch contracts to private American space...

30 Oct 2018 11:44 AM IST

Launched in August, Parker is on track to set another record late Monday night. It will surpass Helios-2â€²s speed record of 153,454 miles per hour. (Photo: AP)

NASA spacecraft sets record for closest approach to sun

Parker will make 24 close approaches to the sun over the next seven years, ultimately coming within just 3.8 million...

30 Oct 2018 9:45 AM IST

Indigenous populations in the upper Amazon region today use cacao for fermented drinks and juices. (Photo: AP)

How old is cacao? New research pushes back date

Tests indicate traces of cacao on artifacts from an archaeological site in Ecuador.

30 Oct 2018 9:15 AM IST

The discovery will involve findings from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASAs Cassini spacecraft, which is orbiting Saturn.

Hubble space telescope returns to science operations: NASA

NASA's famed Hubble Space Telescope has returned to normal operations, and completed its first science observations.

29 Oct 2018 6:45 PM IST

100 species of various microorganisms live aboard the ISS. (Photo: ANI)

About 100 species of microorganisms living on ISS, eroding spacecraft

Currently, there are about 100 species of microorganisms, fungi on the ISS that are considered to be a hazard for...

29 Oct 2018 10:58 AM IST

The good thing about Lithium metal is that it charges much faster and holds 10 times more energy by volume than the lithium-ion electrodes. (Photo: Pixabay)

Carbon nanotubes the answer to making efficient batteries: Study

Nanotube films effectively stops dendrites that grow from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries

29 Oct 2018 10:32 AM IST

Researchers studied three groups of Olympia oysters from different areas of the California coast where the influence of rainfall on seawater salinity varies. (Photo: ANI)

Climate change a threat to oysters

If the oysters die out, all of the associated species will.

29 Oct 2018 10:21 AM IST

Zhuque-1 was carrying a satellite named Future built for state media China Central Television. (Photo: SpaceNews)

Chinese privately developed rocket fails to reach orbit

The three-stage rocket, Zhuque-1, was developed by Beijing-based Landspace.

29 Oct 2018 9:22 AM IST