The long-anticipated meteorological satellite INSAT-3D will be launched in the third quarter of 2013, the government today said.

Building on the success of Curiosity’s Red Planet landing, Nasa has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars programme, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020.

A US scientist has invented a new kind of light bulb that uses plastic polymers and nano materials to generate light that is more energy-efficient than current fluorescent lights and is easier on t

Nasa plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, said the US space agency.

Chinese astronauts may grow fresh vegetables in extraterrestrial bases on Moon or Mars in the future to provide food and oxygen supplies to astronauts, an official said after a successful lab exper

The nearly 900kg Nasa’s Curiosity rover which touched down on the Red Planet’s Gale Grater on August 6 has “discovered hints of organic compounds which could aid primitive life,’’ mission scientist

Scientists on Thursday announced new evidence that Mercury, the planet orbiting nearest the sun, hosts massive caches of ice and revealed new information on how water reached our solar system’s inn

Mercury is as cold as ice.

Beginning a new era in communication, Sri Lanka’s first communication satellite, Supreme SAT I will be launched from Xichang Satellite launch centre in China today.

Jorhat, Nov. 21: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, is planning to apply shockwave technology to the tea industry, which scientists feel could bring about a revolution.

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