Aerospace

A diagram showing the path of A/2017 U1. Caption and credit: NASA

An Asteroid From Another Star System Just Zipped Past Our Sun

Aswin Sekhar 06/11/2017

One of the more pressing questions now is why...

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ISRO Looks at JV for PSLV Manufacture; Launch to Be Privatised by 2020

Anusuya Datta 30/10/2017

Recently, the space agency set up an outreach centre...

Quantum communication exploits a bizarre phenomenon of quantum mechanics called "quantum entanglement". Credit: PTI

ISRO Collaborating With Research Institute to Develop Secure Quantum Communications in Space

K.S. Jayaraman 26/10/2017

Existing communications systems are not hack-proof.

These images from February 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in different wavelengths of light – seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the Sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The images were captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Caption and credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Spotted: A New Small Clue for the Very Big, Very Old Puzzle About Our Sun

Sarah Iqbal 25/10/2017

The temperature of the Sun's surface is 5500º C....

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy looms over the La Silla Observatory, Chile. Credit: esoastronomy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Does the Milky Way Look Like? Astronomers Use High-School Math to Find Out

Vasudevan Mukunth 13/10/2017

We have stunning shots of other galaxies but we...

A girl takes a close look at the world’s first artificial. satellite, the Soviet-made Sputnik I. Credit: Reuters

Taking Stock and Looking to the Future Sixty Years After Sputnik

Keith Gottschalk 08/10/2017

Soon after Sputnik’s launch, the military realised that spacecraft...

L-R: Kip Thorne (credit: LIGO Lab/Caltech), Rainer Weiss (credit: IAU, CC BY 4.0) and Barry Barish (source: YouTube)

Nobel Prize for Physics Goes to Trio That Pioneered Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Vasudevan Mukunth 03/10/2017

But by giving the prize only to Kip Thorne,...