In a major boost to the Indian scientific community, the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan), on its maiden tryst with the red planet, has completed 300 days of its journey in space and is just 23 days away from reaching its … read more
Not too big, not too small. Not too hot, not too cold. A newly discovered planet looks just right for life as we know it, according to an international group of astronomers. Orbiting a star about 500 light-years away, the … read more
London: A neutrino experiment has successfully measured the energy of sun in real time that helped in detecting the neutrinos produced by nuclear reactions inside the solar mass. The experiment result was announced by the Borexino experiment at the Gran … read more
London: In what could change the future of electronics, scientists have been able to make the properties of glass behave like a metal using ultra-short laser pulses. This change of material properties can be used to develop ultra-fast light based … read more
Washington: A US scientist has created the best global colour map so far of Neptune’s big moon Triton. Paul Schenk of Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston used images taken by a NASA spacecraft 25 years ago to prepare the … read more