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The booster also carried 18 micro satellites built in Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. (Photo: AP)

Russia says satellite launch failure due to programming error

Russian space agency Roscosmos said that it had lost contact with the newly-launched weather satellite.

1 Jan 2018 8:36 PM IST

The file photo, shows a starfish clings to a rock near Haystack Rock during low tide in Cannon Beach, Ore. Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico. Now the species is rebounding with sea stars being spotted in Southern California tide pools and elsewhere, the Orange County Register reported. (Photo: AP)

Starfish making comeback after syndrome killed millions

From 2013 to 2014, Sea Star Wasting Syndrome hit sea stars from British Columbia to Mexico.

30 Dec 2017 9:57 AM IST

a Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying the Meteor M satellite and additional 18 small satellites lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia. (Photo: AP)

Russian space experts regain control of 1st Angola satellite

The Russian-built satellite successfully entered a designated orbit after launch from the Baikonur pad in Kazakhstan.

30 Dec 2017 9:43 AM IST

Integrated test range in Chandipur in Odishas Balasore district. (Photo: PTI | File)

India successfully test-fires supersonic interceptor missile

The DRDO termed the test a brilliant mission and a success .

29 Dec 2017 6:28 AM IST

SpaceX is working on a crew capsule that could carry humans into orbit as early as next year. (Photo: AFP)

SpaceX-launched Iridium satellites functioning normally

Some users also took to social media to suggest that the glow made the rocket look like a UFO', with hashtag #aliens...

28 Dec 2017 8:42 AM IST

Science Says: Are poinsettias poisonous? Some holiday truths

Science Says: Are poinsettias poisonous? Some holiday truths

Are snowflakes really pure as the driven snow? Here's what science says about some of them.

25 Dec 2017 5:37 PM IST

The animals will try to avoid a bee sting whenever possible, experts say.

In South Africa, bees stop elephants from trampling trees

The humble bee is helping to keep elephants from destroying trees and wiping out crops in their quest for food.

25 Dec 2017 3:42 PM IST

paceX has made four launches and expects to make several more to complete the job by mid-2018.

Rocket lights sky as it carries satellites from California

The launch in the setting sun created a shining, billowing streak that was widely seen throughout Southern California.

25 Dec 2017 1:25 PM IST

He travelled more than 300 feet away from the space shuttle Challenger during the spacewalk.

NASA astronaut, 1st to fly untethered in space, dies at 80

He was famously photographed in 1984 flying with a hefty spacewalker's jetpack, alone in the cosmic blackness above a...

23 Dec 2017 12:15 PM IST

Fridays payload, known as Iridium 4, brings to 40 the number of new Iridium satellites now in orbit.

SpaceX launches 10 more satellites for Iridium

Some of the satellites are designed to help track ships and aircraft in real time.

23 Dec 2017 11:54 AM IST

A study that draws a link between temperature and international migration on a global scale, and finds a link. (Photo: AP)

Climate change predicted to drive more migrants to Europe

Experts have long warned that rising temperatures and extreme weather could increase the number of people in poor...

22 Dec 2017 8:50 AM IST

The country had on 24 September 2014 successfully placed the Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft in the orbit around the red plane.

NASA seeks proposals to prepare for manned Mars mission

NASA is calling for research proposals that can help understand the effects of long term space travel on astronauts for...

20 Dec 2017 2:05 PM IST