Space pioneer U R Rao passes into the ages

Renowned space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao, who was the brain behind India's first satellite Aryabhata and guided the country's key space......

Indian scientists detect crack in Earth's magnetic shield

The world’s largest and most sensitive cosmic ray monitor, located in India, has recorded a burst of galactic cosmic rays that indicates a crack in the Earth’s magnetic shield,......

Happy New Year Sunita, 16 times over!

Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams will get to celebrate New Year Day 16 times on board humanity's farthest outpost in space as the International Space Station orbits the earth that many......

'He believed that strength respects strength'

Dr V S Ramamurthy began his career at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay, Mumbai, in an era when Dr Homi J Bhabha was a father figure at the nuclear establishment.Dr Ramamurthy has made......