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The United Arab Emirates has purchased a seat on a SpaceX rocket for an Emirati astronaut to journey to the International Space Station for a six-month stay, officials said Friday, the oil-rich federation’s first long-term mission as it advances its ambitions in space.

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Since he closed the deal to buy Twitter a few days ago, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk appears to have been bombarded with requests to fix other products of public use. Though he must be enjoying the attention, he also appears to be frustrated by these requests. Musk has responded to these requests and fake screenshots in his trademark funny style, saying he inten...

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NewSpace India's (NSIL) first demand-driven communication satellite for Tata Sky will be launched by Arianespace on June 22, the France-based satellite launch service providers said. The Ku-Band four-tonne GSAT-24 satellite has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

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Days after a SpaceX Dragon capsule returned to Earth, another has launched carrying the Crew Dragon Capsule called Freedom, with four astronauts. This time, the launch is for a NASA mission to the international space station (ISS).

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Playful, aggressive and often juvenile, Elon Musk's past tweets show how he has used social media to craft his public image as a brash billionaire unafraid to offend. They may also reveal clues as to how Musk will govern the platform he hopes to own.

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In its more than 30 years of service, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made over 1.3 million observations of intriguing cosmic events and bodies. It once captured a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147, using its prime working camera – the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). The “Hubble Classic” image has been again shared on Instagram...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is due to launch the next long-duration astronaut crew to the international space station (ISS) for NASA on Wednesday. The crew includes a medical doctor turned spacewalker and a geologist specializing in Martian landslides.

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With its proton beams, the newly enhanced Large Hadron Collider (LHC) set a new world record. The LHC, which is housed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, reopened on April 22 after a planned three-year sabbatical during which the facility was upgraded.

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Jeff Bezos has asked in a post on Twitter if Elon Musk's $44 billion cash deal to buy Twitter gives China "a bit of leverage over the town square". The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk has generated a debate about whether the deal is good for the social media network.

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SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying all-private astronaut team from Axiom Space safely splashed down off the Florida coast. The four astronauts spent more than two weeks aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

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Elon Musk clinched a deal to buy Twitter Inc for $44 billion on Monday in a transaction that will shift control of the social media platform populated by millions of users and global leaders to the world's richest person.

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Ever wondered how the Earth and the Moon would appear when seen from a Martian orbit? NASA has shared an image that showed them together in a single frame. The image was caught by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) when the Earth was 142 million kilometres from Mars.

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Humans will require spaces to live in if they are to be sent to planets like Mars. So, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru has collaborated with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop a prototype for Martian and lunar soil bricks to be used in the construction of habitats for human settlements on the Red Planet.

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Elon Musk's Starlink will provide in-flight wireless internet on Hawaiian Airlines Inc's trans-Pacific fleet, the airline said on Monday. Under the deal, the companies are in the initial stages of implementation and the wireless internet is expected to be installed on select aircraft next year, Hawaiian said.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) and will begin a descent back to Earth on Sunday, April 30. The capsule carries an all-private astronaut team from Houston-based startup company Axiom Space.

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A seismometer placed by NASA's InSight lander on Mars has detected the two biggest marsquakes to date. According to a new study, the seismic events were of magnitude 4.2 and magnitude 4.1. Both these quakes were five times stronger than the previous largest seismic event recorded.

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Since Pluto - the dwarf planet - was discovered in 1930, it has generated considerable interest among astronomers, primarily over its highly eccentric and inclined orbit.

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The Large Hadron Collider restarted Friday after a three-year break for upgrades that will allow it to smash protons together at even greater speeds, in the hope of making new ground-breaking discoveries.

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If you ever imagined how a solar eclipse would appear from the surface of Mars, you are in for a treat. NASA has shared a “sped-up” video that showed one of Mars' two moons shadowing the Sun as seen from the Martian surface. The interesting video was shot by the space agency's Perseverance rover when Phobos, a small, potato-shaped moon of the Red Planet, moved bet...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink satellite Internet service has signed its first in-flight Wi-Fi deal with a semi-private jet service called JSX. The deal will equip 100 planes with Starlink's terminal.

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Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) commercial arm, NewSpace India Limited, has made an agreement with Bharti group-backed OneWeb for satellite launch programme.

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NASA is celebrating the 32nd birthday of the Hubble telescope by sharing a stunning view of five galaxies in deep space depicted in a single image. Called the Hickson Compact Group 40, this closely knit assembly includes a giant elliptical galaxy glowing with blended light from billions of stars, three spiral galaxies, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.

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SpaceX, Amazon, and several other satellite firms bagged a combined $278 million (roughly Rs. 2120 crore) in contracts from NASA to demonstrate communications in space. NASA plans to replace its current satellite network in orbit with private satellites.

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Twitter is not eager to be ruled by billionaire Elon Musk, despite the tempting buyout offer. Analysts say that Twitter' management and board feel like there's something wrong with the takeover bid.

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Days after offering to buy Twitter, Elon Musk tweeted a cryptic phrase that included a missing word followed by 'is the Night'. The Tesla billionaire on Monday also posted a tweet with the words ' Love Me Tender', an Elvis Presley song.

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The Ax-1 mission is the first-ever fully private crewed mission to the space station. Consisting of four-member, the mission was launched on April 8 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Scientists at the CERN centre have announced that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be fired up this week and continue its search for the elusive subatomic particle known as dark matter.

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NASA's Hubble Telescope has photographed the interstellar Comet Borisov at a distance of 260 million miles (about 41.84 crore km) from Earth. Comet Borisov is the only second interstellar object to ever enter our solar system: the first such visitor was an object officially named "Oumuamua".

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NASA has tested a technology called "holoportation" that allowed the space agency to create 3D holograms of its in-flight surgeon Dr Josef Schmid and his team members and transmit them onto the space station, while they were still on Earth. Here's what you need to know about holoportation and NASA used it to communicate with astronauts in space.

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Scientists in Australia will use printed solar panels to power a Tesla on a 15,000-Km road trip around the country. The initiative is called Charge Around Australia and its aim is to get people to think more about electric vehicles and ease range-anxiety.

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China will be sending three astronauts to its Tiangong Space station in June aboard the Shenzhou 14 capsule. The crew will spend six months in the space station as they add two new modules.

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SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 Rocket carrying a US intelligence satellite on board. The launch was also broadcast live.

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NASA's InSight Mars lander captured a stunning view of a sunrise on the Red Planet, giving space enthusiasts an idea of what watching the run rise on Mars could look like. InSight is NASA's first mission to study the interior of Mars — its crust, mantle, and core — in depth and has completed its mission of spending one Martian year on the planet.

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The return to Earth of three astronauts after six months at China's new space station marks a landmark step in the country's space ambitions, ending its longest crewed mission ever.

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Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth safely after spending a record six months aboard China's new space station, doubling the previous stay of the country's longest single flight in space.

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NASA has shared an image of a cluster of baby stars, captured by its Spitzer Space Telescope. Calling the red clouds of gas a beautiful space butterfly, NASA says the image explains how stars are formed in space.

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NASA's Perseverance rover is capable of covering more than 300 yards (274 meters) in a day, which is more than any other rover on Mars. The rover has a auto-navigation system to create 3D maps of the Martian terrain.

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European Space Agency(ESA) has announced that it ended cooperation with Russia on three upcoming missions on the Moon due to the invasion of Ukraine. Previously, ESA had also ended cooperation on ExoMars Mars mission.

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Space agencies and scientists have said that a massive geomagnetic solar storm will possibly hit the Earth on Thursday. It may also cause damage to the earth. NASA has predicted that there are high chances that the storm will intensify after striking the Earth.

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California startup Bionaut Labs wants to send tiny robots deep inside the human skull in hope to treat brain disorders. These robots will be carefully guided through the brain using magnets. First clinical trials on humans are planned in the next two years.

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The James Webb Space Telescope is being fitted with NIRSpec, the Near Infrared Spectrograph that will allow scientists to observe at least 100 galaxies at a time. It is over 100 times better than a similar instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has determined that the nucleus of comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) as the largest ever found. The estimated diameter of this comet's nucleus is approximately 80 miles across, and the mass of this comet's nucleus is around 500 trillion tons.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia will launch a lunar probe later this year to deepen its space ties with Belarus. He also stated that Russia will develop new generation transport spaceship and technologies for nuclear energy in space.

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Ax-1 or Axiom Mission 1, the mission led by former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria, reached the reached the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday. The mission is being hailed as a critical step toward commercialising the “Low Earth Orbit” sector of space.

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Scientists studying Neptune's temperature were in for a surprise recently. They discovered unusual temperature variations on the planet. Scientists had not anticipated such a dramatic temperature swing, with the planet becoming chilly during its summer season and then warming up at the south pole.

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NASA's Artemis 1 Moon mission has been delayed several times. Now, the American space agency has announced that the final test will be modified and the launch will be delayed further to mid-April. NASA had been conducting “wet dress rehearsals” on the next-generation space launch system throughout the last weekend. The latest setback is to do with the SLS's mobil...

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The US satellite Internet boom could be in trouble as Russian sanctions have created a capacity crunch for rockets to ferry the satellites to space. Industry officials believe that US rocket companies won't be able to keep up with the demand for launches.

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Scientists at Babraham Institute were able to come up with a new technique to rejuvenate ageing skin cells and rewind cellular biological clock by around 30 years. The scientists managed to partly restore the function of older cells as well.

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Russia's Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin has stated that the space agency has come up with a plan to terminate cooperation with Western Partners on ISS, and will present the report to Russia President Vladimir Putin in the near future.

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Elon Musk won't be joining Twitter's Board of Directors, a move that was announced last week. In a tweet late Sunday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal revealed that Musk was due to join the board on April 9, but the same morning, Musk shared he had decided not to join the board. Agrawal said, "I believe this is for the best."

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Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the farthest astronomical object yet discovered: HD1, a galaxy candidate estimated to be 13.5 billion light-years away. That's an incredible 100 million light-years away from the current farthest galaxy, GN-z11.

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The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.

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Researchers have discovered what they believe to be the farthest astronomical object yet discovered: HD1, a galaxy candidate estimated to be 13.5 billion light-years away. That's an incredible 100 million light-years away from the current farthest galaxy, GN-z11.

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The first fully private mission to the International Space Station blasted off from Florida Friday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space.

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The first all-private flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is set to take off on Friday. The mission, organised by the US company Axiom Space, will send a crew of four persons to the space station. This mission will not include any current NASA astronauts and all the crew members are civilians. The crew will stay on ISS for eight days.

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NASA's Hubble telescope has captured a stunning view of an active black hole covered behind tendrils of dark dust. The black hole lies in the spiral galaxy NGC 7172, located about 110 million light-years from Earth in the ancient, but small constellation Piscis Austrinus. The dark dust passes through the centre of the galaxy, obscuring its luminous heart.

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A preserved leg of a dinosaur thought to have been the first fossil linked to the catastrophic asteroid event that wiped out the dinosaurs, has been found. The limb has skin still attached to it.

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NASA has shared an image of Saturn's moon Dione. The image was said to be captured from a distance of about 2.3 million km. Scientists say transits play a vital role in understanding the relationship between the planet and its moons. When the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, during transit, it leads to the solar eclipse.

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A UN report has said that countries will have to cut down greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030 to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change, adding that that unless emissions peak in the next three years, the world will experience extreme climate events. The report also calls for voluntary and rapid emissions cuts to limit the global warming to 1.5 degrees ...

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The dress rehearsal for SLS had been scheduled for Friday at launch pad 39B at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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Mars is much more similar to Earth than previously thought. Researchers have found that the Red Planet is experiencing 'Marsquakes' due to ongoing volcanic activity beneath its dusty, barren surface, just like earthquakes strike our planet.

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Amazon has secured 83 rocket launches over five years to build out its satellite broadband network, Project Kuiper, the e-commerce giant said, as it looks to take on Elon Musk-owned SpaceX's Starlink.

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NASA has shared a stunning photograph of Mount Everest on Instagram, captured by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The image shows the mountain with many snow-capped peaks, in a completely different perspective, which makes it challenging to identify the peak.

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The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private astronaut team ever flown to the orbiting outpost.

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The exoplanet was found circling a star 17,000 light-years away from the Earth

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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed a one-of-its kind technology that rates the motors and batteries of electric vehicles (EVs) based on Indian drive-cycles.

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The researchers say the moon could be pulling down oxygen below its icy surface to feed simple life. They say pools of saltwater in Europa's icy shell could be transporting oxygen from the surface to the ocean.

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Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has built a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring 16 percent in premarket trading.

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A dedicated monitor is usually a 5-inch or a 7-inch screen which can be mounted on the camera. Large powerful batteries called V mount batteries or Gold mount batteries provide external power. Power from external batteries can be supplied to your camera via a DC power connector or cables.

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NASA has yet again delayed the final major test of its Space Launch System (SLS), which will be used to carry humans to the Moon, initially, and then to Mars and beyond. NASA's wet dress rehearsal for the Artemis 1 uncrewed test flight had begun on Friday at the Kennedy Space Center and was due to complete by Sunday.

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Researchers in 2003 unveiled what was then billed as the complete sequence of the human genome. But about 8 percent of it had not been fully deciphered, mainly because it consisted of highly repetitive chunks of DNA that were difficult to mesh with the rest.

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The head of Russia's space programme said Saturday that the future of the International Space Station hangs in the balance after the United States, the European Union, and Canadian space agencies missed a deadline to meet Russian demands for lifting sanctions on Russian enterprises and hardware.

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A study of different sounds captured by NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has revealed that sound waves behave differently on the Red Planet. The study found that sound travels much more slowly on Mars than it travels on Earth.

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NASA began a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a simulated countdown, as the agency gears up to return humans to the Moon.

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There has been a considerable amount of support for Ukraine in the US amidst its war with Russia, from countries and companies alike. The latest firm to show solidarity with the European nation is billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos' commercial space tourism company Blue Origin.

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